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There are many variations and combinations of AWS products and services that lend the platform to great flexibility and customization. We work hard to evaluate these combinations and put forth a collection of best practices for our customers to follow. One of these best practices is the use of CloudFormation templates. My team maintains a series of standard CloudFormation templates for our customers to use. Part of that maintenance includes updating those templates and testing them for functionality.
I will be speaking at Texas Linux Fest this year. My talk will be about Consul , the service discovery tool from HashiCorp . I’m scheduled for Saturday, August 22nd at 1:30 PM in Room 3.
Talk Materials:
Here is the full schedule for the conference. Looking forward to seeing you there!
My ISP is less than reliable so I decided to automate my modem restarts. I’m using a Motorola SB6141 and I can access a web based interface at 192.168.100.1.
Using a combination of curl, grep, and sed, I was able to scrape the necessary pages to get information about the modem’s status. The script then checks the status and restarts the modem if it detects a fault. The script uses curl to GET a specific URL with the necessary parameters. This GET request triggers the modem’s restart.
Today I was a guest on Rackspace Cloud Office Hours talking about my recent Ansible Certified Engineer certification. There is a great article on the Rackspace Blog with a Recap.
Here is the recording of the Hangout:
My talk will be in the Audubon room on Wednesday, at 3:45 PM.
Materials:
- Salt States in this GitHub repository .
- Slides can be found at this location .
Here is the recording of my talk: