Introduction A while back I introduced tco db-backup which eases creating and restoring backups. Here I’ll introduce some additions to make it even easier to retrieve and restore backups. I’ll also introduce some changes to how DevOps will deliver requested DB backups from now on. Some changes described here may require you to update tco. Debian / Ubuntu users will receive the update automatically via OS updates. Others look at tco’s README file.

Background I’ve been working on introducing a Content Security Policy (CSP) for some time and today is the day where a first, minimal version of our policy will start to be enforced. So, what’s a Content Security Policy? Mozilla explains it like this: Content Security Policy (CSP) is a feature that helps to prevent or minimize the risk of certain types of security threats. It consists of a series of instructions from a website to a browser, which instruct the browser to place restrictions on the things that the code comprising the site is allowed to do.

Rapid Release and Continuous Delivery Rapid release in the name of a project to make releases more frequent and deploy bugfixes more rapidly. This is a project which will require company-wide changes over many years but here I’ll focus on some upcoming changes to continuous delivery (CD) which will get us just a bit closer to making releases “rapid”. The Changes Operations is in the process of changing how CD works with the goal to make it possible to deploy production systems automatically.