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AWS Cost Control at Fairfax
Earlier this month I was invited to speak at the AWS Wellington User Group around how we’ve been handling cost control at Fairfax including our use of spot pricing. I’ve now processed the video and got a recording up online for … Continue reading
Tagged aws, cloud, cost control, fairfax, geek, presentation, spot pricing, work
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My IAM policy is correct, but awscli isn’t working?
I ran into a weird issue recently where a single AWS EC2 instance was failing to work properly with it’s IAM role for EC2. Whilst the role allowed access to DescribeInstances action, awscli would repeatedly claim it didn’t have permission … Continue reading
Tagged aws, ec2, geek, iam
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Baking images with Packer & Pupistry
One of the common issues when building modern infrastructure-as-code style systems is that whilst automation is great, it also has a habit of failing at the worst possible time. There’s nothing quite like the fun of trying to autoscale only to find … Continue reading
Tagged amazon, aws, code, geek, open source, packer, pupistry, puppet
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Setting up and using Pupistry
As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been working on an application called Pupistry to help make masterless Puppet deployments a lot easier. If you’re new to Pupistry, AWS, Git and Puppet, I’ve put together this short walk through on … Continue reading
FreeBSD in the cloud
This weekend I was playing around with FreeBSD in order to add support to Pupistry. Although I generally use Linux exclusively, it’s fun to play around with other platforms now and then, bit like going on vacation. Plus building support … Continue reading
Tagged aws, cloud, digital ocean, freebsd, geek, open source, pupistry
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Recovering SW RAID with Ubuntu on Amazon AWS
Amazon’s AWS cloud service is a very popular and generally mature offering, but it does have it’s issues at times – in particular it’s storage options and limited debug facilities. When using AWS, you have three main storage options for … Continue reading
Tagged amazon, aws, cloud, geek, linux, open source, RAID, storage
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Route53 with NamedManager 1.8.0
Just released NamedManager 1.8.0, my open source web-based DNS management tool. This release fixes some bugs with MySQL 5.6 and internationalized domain names, but also includes support for using Amazon AWS Route53 alongside the existing Bind9 support. Just add a … Continue reading
Tagged amazon, aws, bind, code, dns, geek, linux, namedmanager, open source, route53
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