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For many years it was my main work to reverse engineer software installation and configuration for hyper-scaled deployment automation and for OS provisioning for Windows. Early on it was evident that for OS and software provisioning it was extremely ...
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...
Linux has a long and strong reputation for rarely needing a reboot - and it lives up to that reputation very well. Recently I had to devise a solution for a case where it frequently needs a reboot, but you can’t easily take one. AWS ASGs are notoriou...
I frequently have to test code on Amazon Linux 2 - both for work and for the PowerShell Core universal install script install-powershell.sh that I help maintain on the PowerShell Open Source project. Spinning up an instance on Amazon is not a hassle,...
I lead a team that builds highly shared, deep-in-the-stack automation at a large SaaS company that has many software stacks in AWS. This automation includes things like installing security scanners, log collection agents and monitoring agents - all f...
