The ramblings of a computer geek
Here’s a quick example configuration. I’m assuming you already have the AWS CLI packages installed, but if you need to use SSO to login to your AWS Organisation/Account, you can use the following example. AWS CLI Configuration File The AWS configuration file that should be located in: ~/.aws/config, with the contents such as: So let’s … Read more
Postman is a great tool for testing and using APIs, in this article, I’ll show how you can use a Global Variable within Postman to store a value for reuse in other requests. I’m using an HPE Nimble Storage (Alletra Storage) array as a example for illustrating this. The API requires that you login using … Read more
Sometimes it can be useful to generate some files, so you can watch activity, I created this script for this use-case when performing storage updates, I can run this to generate some activity which is made visible to the screen so you can see if and when either expected or unexpected pauses take place. Its … Read more
You can quickly create an Ansible Directory structure using something like the following example. In my example the Ansible directory is just within my Home Directory, I then have a directory called “Plays” where the Ansible Play files are stored and another one called “Roles” where the roles are stored. If say we wanted to … Read more
Following on from a previous article https://geekmungus.co.uk/?p=4510 we now investigate some more into using Ansible for configuration management and installations. As something we can use as an example, we’re going to setup a simple Bind DNS server, which we can use to explore how to manage the installation of Bind and it’s configuration within Ansible. … Read more
Although there are other ways to do it, here is a quick way to tree list directories and files:
Although SSH is preferred, if you want to use Git’s credential helper here’s two simple options, note you’ll probably not want to use the Credentials Helper method, because it stores the credentials in a plain-text file, albeit in your home directory, but still. Using the Credentials Helper, you won’t have to re-enter your username and … Read more
I’m trying a simple example Ansible configuration, I have three Raspberry Pi, each with Ubuntu Linux 22.04.4 LTS installed, one I’m going to use as the Ansible Workstation, then use it to configure the other two servers for different use cases. Its a simple setup, but helps build understanding. My Ansible workstation is called dev1 … Read more
The Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), specifically Fargate allows you to run containers on an ad-hoc basis. The following guide assumes you have already deployed an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), built your image, pushed it to the ECR and have obtained the Repository URI. The guide also uses local Terraform state, please see the … Read more
The below gives a simple example showing how you can deploy a containerised workload: a NGINX web server in this example which has two (or more) containers (tasks) running on AWS Fargate, presented behind a “Service” definition which is then presented to the Internet via an Application Load Balancer (ALB) where a certificate is obtained … Read more