Be warned, you may run into a storage limit when attempting to provision an EBS volume. The limits are set on a combination of volume type and region. If you hit the limit, you'll just have to contact AWS support to have them increase your limit. When in doubt, check the EBS limits. At the … Continue reading Maximum GP2 Storage Limit 20TB per region
Month: March 2017
Setting up Swagger in ASP.NET Core
Swagger is one of my favorite tools when building a WebAPI. It’s good to see support quickly coming to ASP.NET Core from the folks at Swashbuckle. For those of you that might be unfamiliar, Swashbuckle is a framework that enables swagger generation in ASP.NET (and now ASP.NET Core). It’s only in pre-release, so if you … Continue reading Setting up Swagger in ASP.NET Core
What Makes a Good Leader
I’ve been reading “Management” by Peter F. Drucker. It’s one of his foundational works that essentially defined management as a discipline in the early 1970’s. It’s been a great read, very insightful, and provides an impressive foreshadowing of things to come (given that it was originally published in 1974). Early on, Drucker posits his definition … Continue reading What Makes a Good Leader
OpsWorks + Windows: Alternate user identity execute support
A common scenario when configuring an environment is that certain elements of the scripts may need to be executed using a specific user’s credentials. If you’ve looked at the documentation for the various means of execution within Chef you might have noticed the “user”, “domain” and “password” parameters. The “powershell_script” action is particularly useful when … Continue reading OpsWorks + Windows: Alternate user identity execute support
Sky Cliffs 