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Where Your Secrets Really Live: From IaC State to a Running Container
A practical map of where secrets actually leak across Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, Vault, Secrets Manager, and Kubernetes, and how to close each gap.
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Ivan Molodetskikh: Easy Sandboxing on GNU/Linux with Bubblewrap
In these turbulent times, one frequently needs to run some tooling in a sandbox. The goal is mainly to reduce the blast radius: make it so programs within the sandbox cannot damage the host system (e.g. delete or overwrite something unintended), but also, to a lesser extent, to hide most of the filesystem to avoid exfiltrating sensitive data.
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Linux Hint ☛ How to Install, Secure, and Set Up MySQL on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
If you have been using an ecommerce store to place online orders or have been using multiple softwares for work, it is very likely that one or many of those would be using MySQL on the backend to store, retrieve and manage data.
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How to list installed packages on Ubuntu
As a server administrator, understanding how to list software packages installed in an Ubuntu system is crucial. It is useful for various tasks, such as software inventory tracking, updating, and migrating a hosting environment.
There are several commands for Linux server package management. In addition to having different purposes, these commands vary depending on your operating system version and package manager.
In this article, we will explain how to use commands in Ubuntu to list installed packages. We will explore different methods and command variations for different tasks.