Several years ago I actually cared about the differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Namely, that Terraform did not provide wait conditions and helper scripts that made sense in 2017. In 2017, I was a bit apprehensive picking up a new tool that didn’t seem as “AWS-native” as CloudFormation was…

Two 28 oz tins of crushed or whole San Marzano tomatoes 1/2 green bell pepper, diced very petite 1–2 carrots, diced very petite 1 shallot, diced very petite 4–5 cloves garlic, minced or pressed 3 heaping tbsp freshly chopped basil 2 heaping tbsp freshly chopped Italian parsley 1 1/2 tbsp fermented calabrian peppers Sea salt Olive oil…

Today I learned! AWS gives you the ability to allow users of one account (let’s give it account number 5555–5555–5555) to assume a role in another (we’ll give it 6666–6666–6666). This is pretty straightforward stuff that, as an AWS administrator, you’ll learn sooner rather than later. …

Since you’re going to be chopping chili peppers, either get some gloves or have something with high alcohol content around (rubbing alcohol, hand sanitizer, etc). Meats: Either: 2 lbs chuck roast, cubed kinda small 1/2 to 1 package bacon: up to you. Chopped. 1 tbsp flour (preferably corn flour but regular flour…

Perhaps many of you who read this quick little blurb will say, “yeah, duh” but until now I have been struggling with an unwieldy $HOME/.kube/config file. Even with the kubectx and kubens tools, I feel like I have to sort through a lot of oddly-named contexts to get logged into the right Kubernetes cluster. Right now I have access to 16 different Kubernetes clusters. I just culled 25 or so out of my $HOME/.kube/config file as my services for a client have come to an end.

I have referred to this article by Michel Blanc a number of times, primarily because of one thing he says: Do not overdo tags: most of the time, this is YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) What he says is absolutely the truth. Using Ansible tags creates all sorts of…

I just dove into a 55,000-line bundle of Ansible and accompanying scripts. My team and I are just trying to get it to work. What’s most frustrating to someone new to Ansible, or to a new bundle of playbooks and roles, is figuring out where a broken task is. …

If you still use VMware, as I have been, lately, you absolutely must download the govmomi-based “govc” client: https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/tree/master/govc First, there’s the ‘govc find’ command, which is like UNIX’s filesystem ‘find. govc find -h: The '-type' flag value can be a managed entity type or one of the following aliases: …

I want to learn how to hook Microsoft’s ADFS up to AWS as a third party identity provider so naturally I saw this as an opportunity to use those $200 in free Azure credits we all get to try things out. For me, it’s just time to pick up these…