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ℹ️ These are my personal thoughts, and they do not represent the official viewpoints of National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition or the Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense League. 2026 Season When we started developing this season we did not have a host selected. Luckily, we have a connection at Middlesex Community College and the school was excited to host the competition. Here’s the thing: they’ve never had a team compete and are a community college. (Four-year colleges 😅) Due to the delayed host selection the black team took the liberty of selecting the main competition theme. Initially, we were thinking of doing something purely in the restaurant industry, but it lacked CCDC worthy technology (sorry no smart air fryers). We settled on an MSP (ChefOps) that serves the hospitality industry. ...

I’ve been running Kaniko for several years without any major issues. Recently, when I was updating and applying patches to my CI systems on Argo Workflows, I discovered that the Kaniko project is now (June 3, 2025) archived. ...

This guide will walk you through setting up AWS IAM authentication on your RDS Database, setup attribute based access control on your Identity Center roles. Then connect to that database using IAM with CLI and DataGrip clients. ...

GitOops This is the official walkthrough for the vmGoat Scenario GitOops. ...

Automate the building and deployment of static frontend applications using an Argo Workflows pipeline and AWS CloudFront. Don’t run your frontend applications on servers or containers. Move your project to a content distribution network (CDN) and gain the following benefits: Increase application responsiveness Reduced operational overhead Improved Security ...