Identity and Access Management (IAM) in AWS has three general types: Users, Groups, and Roles. Users are similar to users in other systems. They are typically assigned to individuals, can be assigned permissions, passwords, and API keys. Roles are...

Publicly accessible S3 buckets make the news often. It seems every week there's a new case of an improperly configured S3 bucket leaking data. There are a number of reasons for this, but the end result is never good. One reason this happens is the...

If your Office 365 account is closing because of graduation, retirement or leaving the university, there are steps you can do to take your OneDrive and/or Home Drive (H:) data with you. There are many personal options for saving files to the cloud (...

The International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) mandates that access to physical materials or technical data related to defense and military technologies is restricted to US persons only. It, however, does not impose requirements concerning the...

GitLab Administrative is for IT Professionals to host projects not related to academic or research initiatives. Students, faculty or researchers seeking a version control system for academic or research projects should use GitLab Academic .

The ITS Administrative GitLab instance can be presumed operational from 8am to 5pm, Monday through Friday . Outside of that, GitLab will likely be operational, but it is less guaranteed (due to the need for periodic updates, backups, and patches)...

The GitLab repositories and database are dumped nightly at 1:00am CST using the internal tools. These backups are intended for Disaster Recovery purposes only. At this point, GitLab does not have the ability to restore a single project. There is an...

Gitlab releases updates on the 22nd of each month. Updates will be applied to the test instance on the 26th at 6:00am CST followed by production on the 28th at 6:00am CST, barring any major issues.

All user accounts need to have a valid University of Iowa email address to avoid issues with GitLab's email relay system. This includes service accounts used for API interactions.

Security updates deemed necessary will be applied to test as soon as possible. Service owners are notified to review the updates and given 24 hours to report any problems. After 24 hours, or as soon as service owners give the ok, the same updates...