This is the last article in the series about The Bastion. In the previous parts, we covered the principles of The Bastion, and talked about how delegation was at the core of the system. Then we explained how Security was at the heart of the design principles, in a detailed but hopefully not too-long article. […]
The Bastion – Part 4 – A new era Read More »
In previous parts, we’ve covered the basic principles of the bastion. We then explained how delegation was at the core of the system. This time, we’ll dig into some governing principles of how The Bastion is written. In a nutshell, the main purpose of the bastion is to ensure security, auditability and reliability in all
The Bastion – Part 3 – Security at the core Read More »
This is the second part of a blog series, here is part one. We’ve previously found that the bastion is not your usual SSH jumphost (in fact, we found it is not a jumphost at all) and we discussed how the delegation was one of the core features we’d originally needed. So, let’s dive into
The OVHcloud SSH Bastion – Part 2: delegation dizziness Read More »
Bastion? Are we talking about the indie game? Not this time! (albeit it’s a good game!). At OVHcloud, a fair amount of our infrastructures are built on top of Linux boxes. We have a lot of different flavours; such as Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat… and the list goes on. We even had good old Gentoos
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