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Besides being techy, I dabble in the occasional run at 5k & 10k distances. In many races, photographers capture you, usually in some very un-flattering pose. The problem is that there can be hundreds of photos to check through - sometimes thousands.
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Normally, the AWS CLI (or boto3 library if using python), will look for a file called.aws/credentialsor.aws/configin your user's home directory. However, I'm often working on several different clients and therefore need to work with different sets of credentials.
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I've been using traditional relational databases for far too many years, but as I've been exploring the Amazon Web Services (AWS), I came across their NoSQL offering
DynamoDB.I had a flight coming up and wanted to explore DynamoDB, but AWS expects you to run their services in the cloud, which needs an internet …
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Anyone using Amazon Web Services will hopefully start using the CloudFormation service early on to start templating and automating the creation of their infrastructure. Until recently, these templates had to use the .json file format; however, this week (Sept. 2016), AWS announced that the templates could use .yaml. …
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These days, we generally accept that we should all be using code repositories to store and manage our code, but there have been several cases recently where passwords or other sensitive data have been exposed either due to security issues with the repository hosting, repositories being accidentally switched from …
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Sometimes, we want to control the permissions of a file in Puppet without worrying about the file contents.
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I've been trying out Elementary's Linux distribution Freya on my Dell E7440 for a while; generally it's been working pretty well but I'd have occasional issues with flickering, black screens and so on.
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I recently came across the situation I needed to use Puppet to assign a specific combination of users to a group.
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