A big part of administrating Linux machines – especially remote machines – is managing and installing software. When something goes wrong with a local application or when something on the file system breaks and needs fixing, you’re often going to… Continue Reading
Staring at a plain, dumb command line prompt with no clue what to do with the AWS CLI next can be a humbling experience. And, in my experience at least, staring at the Management Console for AWS CloudFormation can be… Continue Reading
How to get exactly the account and environment information you need to manage your AWS account using just the AWS CLI Installing the AWS CLI is actually quite simple. The best way to get it done is to head over… Continue Reading
One fine day, for no discernible reason, my Ubuntu 18.04 business server stopped forwarding mail to my Gmail address. Just the day before, the .forward files I’d created in the home directories of the local server accounts I use for email –… Continue Reading
As you can read in this article, I recently had some trouble with my email server and decided to outsource email administration to Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES). The problem with that solution was that I had SES save new messages… Continue Reading
Wouldn’t you love to be able to simply wave a wand and layers of resources in your AWS account would suddenly – and magically – spring to perfectly configured life, ready to meet your complex infrastructure needs? If you already… Continue Reading
In the beginning there was the FreeBSD – and later Linux – chroot jail. Chroot was a way to bring an unmounted file system to life so you could execute commands as though it was actually running on its own… Continue Reading
I’m sure you’ve heard that all the cool kids are playing with orchestration automation these days. But do you know why? Well first, the resources consumed by modern microservices workloads are becoming much more complex and deploy to far more… Continue Reading
In the good old days, installing an operating system meant pulling together all the hardware components, firing your new computer up with an installation disk in a peripheral drive, and setting the installation process loose do its thing. The total… Continue Reading
I’m not keeping very close track, but it feels like months since Amazon Web Services (AWS) most recently turned a major tech industry upside down. But with all their resources and market power, I’m sure there’s always something interesting cooking… Continue Reading