I was looking to add the ability for users of a CloudFormation template to be able to specify networking, but without overcomplicating the existing parameter set or the required information gathering. Meeting the requirement ended up being the gatewa...
I mused how we sometimes do the equivalent of Pearl Diving when taking on new skills. Its the idea of deep learning a stack of one or more new things while under the pressure of needing the end state code to reflect a maturity level significantly hig...
Super action spies like Ethan Hunt, Jason Borne and Evelyn Salt live in an ethos of getting the job done no matter what! They complete their missions in vastly diverse conditions and in the face of the unexpected. Super spies make use of specialized ...
Everyone loves Linux for its ability to stick to fundamentals and common platform expectations. Except those of us who do a lot of deployment automation. Why? Two main reasons: In a world of stripped back distros (think containers), even fundamental ...
While noodling uses for the Ultimate AWS ASG Kickstart and Lab Kit I realized it could use a couple new features and improvements. The first is to have instances self-tag themselves as to whether they are a spot or on-demand instance. When supporting...
A while back I wrote a blog and companion Cloud Formation templates for experimenting with the ways an ELB creation template could be linked to an ASG. That iteration was based on an ASG template designed to show how to kernel patch linux and reboot ...
