What's your favourite server naming convention?

Alex Macniven — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:46:59 +0000

I headed back into the office yesterday for the first time since lockdown began here in the UK. I was tasked with building a few servers for our local network that is needing a bit of love.

We still have a few legacy servers that are named after characters from the Flintstones cartoon.

So I was wondering; what's the best server naming conventions you have seen or are using?

Shushi - Minimalist Secrets Management in Python

Alex Macniven — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:48:06 +0000

A lot of the work I produce as a 9-5 developer lives in private repositories. Given the unprecedented times we are all currently experiencing I wanted to take the opportunity to port some of my work into open source repositories.

Problem

When I'd create applications in python I'd create a config.json to store credentials and other sensitive assets needed by the application.

This posed 2 problems for me;

Credentials are spread across multiple config.json files
Generally, the config.json files are in plan-text

Solution

As a result I built shushi, minimalist secrets management in Python.

How does shushi address the above?

Credentials are stored in a single vault file
The vault file is encrypted using cryptography

Shushi comes complete with...

A CLI developed using click;

> shushi -p [password] get twitter
name = twitter
user = alexmacniven
password = secret_password

Access to the back-end functionality;

>>> import shushi
>>> shushi.get([password], "twitter")
VaultRecord(name="twitter", user="alexmacniven", password="secret_password")

Unit tests written with pytest in mind;

> pytest
============================= test session starts =============================
platform win32 -- Python 3.8.2, pytest-5.4.1, py-1.8.1, pluggy-0.13.1
rootdir: ~\Code\shushi
plugins: mock-2.0.0
collected 25 items

tests\test_api.py ..                                                     [  8%]
tests\test_core.py ..............                                        [ 64%]
tests\test_crpyto.py ........                                            [ 96%]
tests\test_record.py .                                                   [100%]

============================= 25 passed in 1.24s ==============================

Contributions are welcomed using Github issues.

Psst this is my first dev.to post 🥳

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What's your favourite server naming convention?

Shushi - Minimalist Secrets Management in Python

Problem

Solution

Shushi comes complete with...