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Category Archives: Setup From Scratch
Terraform tutorial part 2
When running the terraform init command it will store the current state locally in files. This is pretty convenient but if that file is stored on your workstation that makes it impossible to share the build process between multiple developers. … Continue reading
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A simplifed Terraform and AWS tutorial
A lot of tutorials and youtube videos about Terraform go through the process of downloading and installing Terraform. This process is essentially to download a single executable and make sure that this executable is in your path. This process is … Continue reading
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CMOS scheeMOS, clean up after yourself
I have had a problem with my home computer for some time. It doesn’t quite boot right. That is to say, when you turn it on, it actually doesn’t start windows or anything. I have done some investigations and found … Continue reading
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AWS – CLI
I am rather a command line person myself so in retrospect I was a bit surprised that I didn’t leap to the AWSCLI command line program. This tool lets you do from your shell what you might have had to … Continue reading
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AWS – Fun with S3 Buckets
My last post was discussing the S3 bucket which can be used as more than a simple dumb disk for storing family photos or videos. One of the more interesting things that can be done with an S3 bucket is … Continue reading
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AWS – S3 and Simple Notifications
Individual Amazon web services are actually quite amazing all on their own but they are really neat when you start to use them together. There probably isn’t anyone who in their life hasn’t had a sdcard or hard disk fill … Continue reading
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The internet is for … porn
HP 1312 color laser printer Perhaps I am pretty easily persuaded by the brand as quite a few years back I purchased a HP color printer – the 1312 multi function printer to be exact. It is a bit … Continue reading
AWS – S3 buckets
Amazon AWS is a very rich infrastructure. It is not uncommon for AWS to field several different yet somewhat similar types of services. The area of data storage is one of those areas where there is a rich set to … Continue reading
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AWS – Simple Notification Service
AWS can provide you a LOT of functionality. Some of what it can provide is so powerful because you can automate given actions. It isn’t necessary to monitor your EC2 instances to see if your machines are running at a … Continue reading
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AWS – Autoscaling
The cloud isn’t really the cloud without some additional functionality beyond the ability of creating a virtual machine to run your software. The cloud isn’t just somebody else’s data center either. A short definition might be. A Cloud solution is … Continue reading
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