The ramblings of a computer geek
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Amazon Container Registry (ECR) allows you to store the images within the cloud, for the purposes of this example we’ll use a simple container using a Dockerfile that creates an Apache web server that says “Hello World!”. Repository The example Terraform definitions can be found within Gitlab: Step 1 – Deploy Terraform You first need […]
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While using Perl Mail::Mailer to send from an on-site application to our Microsoft 365 tenancy via SMTP, we had an oddity. We’d already setup the Microsoft 365 tenancy to have a receive connector which was autheniticating via the source address, i.e. our on-premise IP range. When testing via a test Perl script which was the […]
More...Let’s say you have a running Docker Container and you need to copy a file from it down to the host, you might need to do this while building a Docker image perhaps to see what a file that has been autogenerated looks like for example. You can do this by running the following from […]
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The document provides an overview of how to setup and configure OKTA with a test Shibboleth sP (Service Provider) instance with a example site which is secured using OKTA. It can be used to explore how OKTA and Shibboleth sP interact with the SAML assertion exchange. The deployment is simple and provides the following: An […]
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When using Route53 for DNS, you have the option of using a special AWS only type of record for the Apex or Root record of the domain (zone). Taking an example domain.com, you typically would have a website which has an A record called www.domain.com. But what if you want to have the apex of the domain […]
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Its recommended to manage your EC2 instances via SSM if/when you need console access rather than using SSH which can pose a security risk. Of course if you need to get or put files into the EC2 instance this can be a bit tricky, however if you have an S3 bucket available you can use […]
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