I traversed the barren landscape and followed the AWS neck chains to the Venetian Sands Showroom to register for AWS Re:Invent 2018 last night. The Ping Pong tables and heavy beats were in full force. Love the geometric furniture this year! The registration was seamless but albeit on clunky HP laptops. Took my picture and … Continue reading Ready to Re:Invent 2018
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Maximum GP2 Storage Limit 20TB per region
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
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
Git + OpsWorks: Getting Organized
In OpsWorks, each "Layer" can be linked to its own repository. You can also specify a branch of your choosing. The terminology mapping between AWS, Git and Application Architecture can sometimes be a bit confusing and can lead to mal-configured OpsWorks stacks which can subsequently lead to OpsWorks being used inappropriately due to perceived technical … Continue reading Git + OpsWorks: Getting Organized
AWS Developer Associate Cert Prep Series Recap
Here is an index of all the parts of the ten part series of self-recorded labs targeting preparation for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification. Identity & Access Management (IAM) Introduction to Lambda Introduction to API Gateway Programming AWS STS with .NET Elastic Beanstalk Serverless Architectures with DynamoDB and Kinesis Serverless Architectures with CloudWatch and … Continue reading AWS Developer Associate Cert Prep Series Recap
Manually Run a Chef Script on OpsWorks
Let’s say you’re manually testing a recipe on one of your OpsWorks instances. This recipe is the nth step in a multi-step process and you’ve fully tested and integrated into your “Setup” lifecycle event all the recipes that handle steps 1 through n-1. The highlighted recipe is such a recipe. It resides within a parent … Continue reading Manually Run a Chef Script on OpsWorks
The Three ‘Don’ts’ of OpsWorks
Don't Treat Them Like Regular Virtual Machines I've seen OpsWorks used as a round about way to provision EC2 instances. This is not the purpose of OpsWorks. OpsWorks provides an orchestration mechanism that triggers configuration management events at key events in the life of a virtual machine allowing us to respond to change in our environments … Continue reading The Three ‘Don’ts’ of OpsWorks
AWS Developer Cert Prep Part 10: Launching and Managing a Web App with CloudFormation
This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at launching and managing a web application using AWS CloudFormation. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing whatsoever so you'll get … Continue reading AWS Developer Cert Prep Part 10: Launching and Managing a Web App with CloudFormation
AWS Developer Cert Prep Part 9: CloudFront
This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at utilizing CloudFront. On Azure we have Azure CDN. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing whatsoever so you'll get all … Continue reading AWS Developer Cert Prep Part 9: CloudFront
AWS Developer Cert Prep Part 8: Autoscaling EC2
This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at setting up auto-scaling on EC2. On Azure we can do this with Azure Virtual Machines. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with … Continue reading AWS Developer Cert Prep Part 8: Autoscaling EC2
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