Riccardo Padovani
Hi! In this corner of web you'll find my posts about different topics in the C.S. field: I'm a Solutions Architect with a strong passion for F/OSS and bug bounties!
How to make Terraform waiting for cloud-init to finish on EC2 without SSH
Aug 19, 2021
aws and terraform
Terraform is a powerful tool. However, it has some limitations: since it uses AWS APIs, it doesn’t have a native way to check if an EC2 instance has completed to run cloud-init before marking it as ready. A possible workaround is asking Terraform to SSH on the instance, and wait until it is able to perform a connection before marking the instance as ready.
Adding comments to the blog
Aug 17, 2021
meta
After years of blogging, I’ve finally chosen to add a comment system, including reactions, to this blog. I’ve done so to make it easier engaging with the four readers of my blabbering: of course, it took some time to choose the right comment provider, but finally, here we are!
Reading env variables from a Tauri App
Aug 15, 2021
tauri and javascript
“Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend” is the promise made by Tauri. And indeed, it is a great Electron replacement. But being in its first days (the beta has just been released!) a bit of documentation is still missing, and on the internet there aren’t many examples on how to write code.
Integrating JetBrains Qodana with GitLab pipelines
Feb 14, 2021
gitlab
JetBrains Qodana is a new product, still in early access, that brings the “Smarts” of JetBrains IDEs into your CI pipeline, and it can be easily integrated in GitLab.
Fail a Gitlab pipeline when code coverage decreases
Nov 18, 2020
gitlab
Automatic and continuous testing is a fundamental part of today’s development cycle. Given a Gitlab pipeline that runs for each commit, we should enforce not only all tests are passing, but also that a sufficient number of them are present.
Create a PyTorch Docker image ready for production
Nov 3, 2020
docker and pytorch
Given a PyTorch model, how should we put it in a Docker image, with all the related dependencies, ready to be deployed?
Introducing Daintree.app: an opensource alternative implementation of the AWS console.
May 1, 2020
aws and daintree.app
Daintree.app is a website to manage some of your AWS resources: since this is an early preview, at the moment, it supports a subset of Networking, EC2, SQS, and SNS
Leveraging AWS Lambda to notify users about their old access keys
Feb 29, 2020
aws
I love to spend time trying to automatize out boring part of my job. One of these boring side is remembering people to rotate AWS Access Keys, as suggested also by AWS in their best practices.
My year on HackerOne
Dec 28, 2019
security
Last year, totally by chance, I found a security issue over Facebook - I reported it, and it was fixed quite fast. In 2018, I also found a security issue over Gitlab, so I signed up to HackerOne, and reported it as well. That first experience with Gitlab was far from ideal, but after that first report I’ve started reporting more, and Gitlab has improved its program a lot.
Exploring Gitlab Visual Reviews
Nov 3, 2019
gitlab
With version 12.0 Gitlab has introduced a new interesting feature: Visual Reviews! You can now leave comments to Merge Requests directly from the page you are visiting over your stage environment, without having to change tab.