Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Using SSM Automation as a makeshift web form for invoking Lambda Functions (and Step Functions, too!)

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What's this article about? It's about  AWS Systems Manager Automation . This product can be seen as a poor man's Step Function w...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Using cfn_nag with the CDK

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Nota bene: As I was writing this post, I noticed that CDK Labs has started work on cdk-nag  which will let you analyze your work directly fr...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Cross-account sharing of a PrivateLink endpoint using Private Hosted Zones and CloudFormation

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Introduction It is possible to concentrate all your PrivateLink endpoints in one account, then share them with other accounts and access ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Deploying a cross-account Transit Gateway using CloudFormation

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Introduction I've decided to automate the deployment of a Transit Gateway using CloudFormation. I'll show you here how I did it...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Update and thoughts on Ansible for cloud automation

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Except for a few posts here and there, there hasn't been much really useful content in this blog in almost eight years! I think an updat...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Installing Solaris 11.4 beta on a Proliant G4

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I've been trying to install Solaris 11.4 beta on an extremely old x86 server, in part because I do not have access to a scratch VMwar...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Revisiting the restricted shell

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I've been administering Unix boxes since the mid-90s and I've always been told that using restricted shells (rsh, rksh, rbash) was a...