I am proud to announce that I have completed my first Microsoft Azure Certification.
To see more of my certifications checkout the certifications page.
2020 09 17_action Hugo Is Live
Well it is working if you are seeing this. More on that later.
Accessing Multiple CodeCommit Repos
AWS provides a handy Git based repository to their customers called CodeCommit. Accessing the repository is easy enough, upload your SSH Key to the AWS Console, and then add CodeCommit to your SSH configuration:
# ~/.ssh/config Host git-codecommit.*.amazonaws.com User USER1EXAMPLEARN1 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/USER1EXAMPLEARN1_rsa This is wonderful until you need to access more than one AWS Account’s CodeCommit repo. How do you identify between two different AWS Account repos that use the same URL?
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Github Actions Worked
This is a temporary post to let me know that my Github Actions are functional. Yay me!
AWS Boto3 Documentation Redirect
Maybe you are lazy like I am, but when I want to read the Boto3 documentation I just open my browser, and in the omnibar I type boto3 and slap Enter; however, this results in my browser auto-filling the URL bar with https://boto3.amazonaws.com and since the AWS guys are too lazy to add a redirect there, I have created a simple User Script that does exactly that, it just redirects the browser to the correct link https://boto3.
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Find all EC2 Instances using in-house AMIs
Building off my last post GNU Parallel and AWS CLI, today I used parallel with more AWS to get a count of all AMIs being used in my infrastructure using any in-house AMI (non-Amazon, non-Marketplace).
The Problem I need to know how many of my instances are running Chef clients. Conveniently we only run Chef client on instances that use images we have created in-house. So I can limit my search.
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GNU Parallel and AWS CLI
We all know that the GUI/Console for AWS is sadly slow and cumbersome to use. That’s why they created the CLI and SDK tools to let impatient people do more work in less time. However, the CLI and SDK are also slow because well, processing time takes for ever sometimes. So for the truly impatient isn’t it nice that you can use GNU Parallel to complete more work in less time?
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AWS IAM Scan for Role Name
Scan AWS Account for IAM Role If you are like me you happen to work with ALZs with LOTS of accounts. Jumping into each one to verify a role exists, or doesn’t it quite tedious. So here I have a simple “one-liner” that loops through your accounts and looks for the existence of a role (by partial lookup).
One-liner for role in $(cat ~/.aws/credentials | grep devopsadmin | cut -d '[' -f2 | cut -d ']' -f1 | grep -v ^role_arn); do echo $role; aws --profile $role iam list-roles | jq -r ".
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AWS Backup Delete Script
Delete AWS Backup artifacts AWS Backup is a great utility, but when you are cleaning up an account it takes a long time to remove all the backup artifacts by hand in the console. So instead I present this one-liner
Single Region $ aws --region us-east-1 backup list-recovery-points-by-backup-vault --backup-vault-name default | jq '.RecoveryPoints' | jq -c -r '.[].RecoveryPointArn' | xargs --max-lines=1 aws --region us-east-1 backup delete-recovery-point --backup-vault-name default --recovery-point-arn Multiple Regions $ regions=us-east-1,us-west-2; for region in $regions; do aws --region ${region} backup list-recovery-points-by-backup-vault --backup-vault-name default | jq '.
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Nginx + SSL/TLS through Let's Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt + Nginx is simple easy! Look, it’s 2020, and if your site isn’t provided under SSL/TLS then you are behind even the least sophisticated scammers out there.
Here is a quick walk through on using certbot from Let’s Encrypt, that provides easy to acquire, and even renew your certificates if you’re using Nginx.
NOTE: These directions are geared toward Fedora users, but this is literally just as easy on Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, etc.
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