Category: Cloud
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Easy GoLang AWS SDK V2 Upgrade
In my day job I have a pretty extensive library of routines I use to wrap cloud automation using the vendor libraries as composed functions. That makes things like deploying a stack, or creating an AMI a bit easier. Composed functions allow me to build things in the cloud in a consistent way. I simply…
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AWS Accounts as Cattle
Manage infrastructure as cattle not pets and automating DNS migration between accounts
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Plesk Migration to AWS
I have been running my hosting on 1and1 hosting (now Ionos) since the early days of the web. In the years I’ve been on that service, I’ve moved it a few times from one of their servers to another (mostly to save a few bucks), so it was time to do a Plesk migration to…
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AWS Login Code As Infrastructure CloudFormation
I set up AWS accounts in a hub and spoke model for access using AWS Organizations for login. This meaning that I have an AWS organization that is under my master account. I have my SSO federated login in a single login account whose only purpose is to do the federated login. After logging in,…
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CloudFormation Custom Resources
CloudFormation is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) method of creating repeatable infrastructure as code. Technically templates that describe resources to be built in AWS. There are things that either were never implemented in CloudFormation, or need some logic that exceeds what CloudFormation does. For those cases, AWS provided the capability of adding macros and custom…
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AWS Extend Switch Roles
I lear about a change in how AWS extend roles works, and how to use the extension in Chrome after that change. AWS Extend Switch Roles Update 2.0.3
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AWS Cloudformation with Optional Resources
I had a situation where I had to bypass creation of some resources in CloudFormation. Either the resources already exist, or I just don’t want to create things depending on conditions. To achieve this it turns out that CloudFormation actually has a nice facility, although it is a bit awkward.
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A Little Security for WordPress on CentOS
I logged into a newly provisioned VM recently to see a message that there had been 86,876 failed login attempts from a domain in another country. Last failed login: Sat Sep 13 04:02:20 UTC 2014 from 222.186.34.117 on ssh:notty There were 86876 failed login attempts since the last successful login. That got me to looking…
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Getting the correct timezone in a web application
I support a web application that is hosted on a virtual private server. The application architecture is JavaEE running under GlassFish on CentOS. Like most ISP’s, my hosting provider builds vanilla Linux boxes that can be configured with various flavors of the OS. Out of the box these images have their timezone set to UTC,…