Category: Cloud Infrastructure

  • Asbestos is a group of naturally-occurring fibrous silicate materials (amosite, chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, actinolite, and anthophyllite). They’re flexible enough to be woven and heat resistant, so at one point, humans used them in…well, just about everything. From car parts (brakes, clutches, transmission parts, etc.) to packing materials, heat-resistant fabrics, and even toothpaste, asbestos has been…

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  • I’ve been looking for an SFTP to S3 solution for years now. In an infinite number of universes, I’ve had an infinite number of experiences where team members and/or outsource teams need to upload files to clients’ S3 buckets. If you’re just seeing the AWS console for the first time, it’s overwhelming. Even limiting access…

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  • The AWS adventures continue… I’ll keep this short and sweet, because it was almost life-changing and I’m tired of ranting. Something something be more positive something attitude affects everything something something eat a dick. I noticed, previously, when adding additional private IP’s to an AWS instance, the input field has a placeholder value of Auto-assign.…

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  • or “How I Figured the Fucking IP’s Out and Learned to Love netplan“ I suppose it’s that time of year again, where I write one of my two annual posts. Some years I only get through one. I actually enjoy writing, I just never seem to find time to do it. Oh, well, as the…

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  • Ugh. Uggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff. Twelve hours to get this damn thing right. OK, deep breath. Use Google, ask sys admin friends, LINT your YAML. Spin up alternate instances because you mis-configured Netplan and it took the server offline. Realize your snapshot was designed too late and you’re totally fucked because of course the dev team doesn’t…

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    Read More: AWS Private IP’s on Ubuntu 18.04 with Netplan