Dennis McCarthy
Certified Red Hat RHCE and AWS Solutions Architect Associate working as a contract Linux Engineer for large multi-national banks and financial institutions specialising in configuration management solutions, automation and server security.
Talks I've Given
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Getting started with Kubernetes
Featuring Dennis McCarthy
Using my Windows Laptop, I'll show you how to install minikube and kubectl to pull a container image from docker hub and run it in a one node minikube Kubernetes cluster.
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Getting Started with Terraform
Featuring Dennis McCarthy
A quick and simple demo of how to get started with Terraform to build a simple VM in EC2.
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How to Impress your Boss with the Elastic Stack in 10 minutes!
Featuring Dennis McCarthy
A demo from Dennis McCarthy showing you how to use and impress your boss with the Elastic Stack!
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Using Ansible to run Ad-hoc tasks and data collection within your estate (up and running in 5 minutes)
Featuring Dennis McCarthy
This short talk will cover using ansible to run ad-hoc commands across your server estate. It can quickly replace older/traditional methods of collecting information via a golden host or jump server without the need to use root passwords/keys. I'll demonstrate how Ansible gives us a powerful...
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Using Terraform to build infrastructure in AWS including openScap hardening.
Featuring Dennis McCarthy
This talk will cover the setup and launch of one AWS EC2 instance using Terraform. I'll cover the terraform configuration and demonstrate the bootstrapping of the EC2 instance. This will include running Openscap and applying audit controls to our Instance.
openscap terraform aws architecture cloud-computing configuration-management infrastructure-as-code automation linux