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Improving container security in your CI/CD pipeline

Ronald Bradford
September 3, 2026

At PyCon AU 2026 , the presentation Your Python container is 90% stuff you didn’t ask for by Scott Norris at Chainguard really exposed the impact of being lazy in container management for security purposes.

My take on PyCon Australia 2026

Ronald Bradford
August 30, 2026

PyCon AU 2026 held in Brisbane this week was a five day event for the Python community. With specialized tracks and dedicated tutorial and engineering days there was a wide variety of content available.

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Getting a clearer picture of http response time breakdown via CLI

Ronald Bradford
November 10, 2016

I came across this handy python script https://github.com/reorx/httpstat that provides a http response breakdown in text. This saves you having to open up a browser and look at a visual network response waterfall.

Cloud Computing Open Source OpenStack Python Testing

Writing and testing unit tests in OpenStack

Ronald Bradford
June 5, 2015

The following outlines an approach of identifying and improving unit tests in an OpenStack project. Obtain the source code You can obtain a copy of current source code for an OpenStack project at http://git.

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Contributing to OpenStack

Ronald Bradford
June 3, 2015

Following my first OpenStack Summit in Vancouver 4/2015 it was time to become involved with contributing to OpenStack. I have lurked around the mailing lists and several IRC channels for a few weeks and familiarized myself with OpenStack in varying forms including devstack , the free hosted Mirantis Express and the VM version, Ubuntu OpenStack , and even building my own 3 physical server cloud from second hand hardware purchased on eBay.

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Python 3 semantics for integer division

Ronald Bradford
May 6, 2015

As I refresh my skills in Python 2 to Python 3 semantics I discovered there is a difference in the division operator (i.e. /). When using integers in Python 2 the result (by default) is an integer.

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Installing Python 3.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

Ronald Bradford
April 29, 2015

Ubuntu 14.04 by default uses Python 2.7 and 3.4. If you want to install Python 3.3, in my case because various Openstack projects that maintain 3.3 compatibility. I had a hard time finding what I would consider an official means.