by ricktbaker | Nov 27, 2017 | AWS, DevOps, Lamda
If you’re using AWS for a critical application then you probably have a disaster recovery region setup. If it’s automated well, then everything you need to spin up the disaster recovery region should be quick and easy. One thing that can be a bit of a...
by ricktbaker | Nov 19, 2017 | DevOps, Ubuntu
Previously I wrote a post about joining your Ubuntu 16.04 server to Active Directory. This works well and what I have done with one of my clients is create an AMI within AWS that handles most of this. But, it still requires some manual interaction because during the...
by ricktbaker | Nov 16, 2017 | DevOps, Security
I spend a lot of time doing freelance / consulting work for a variety of businesses. One thing that I see more often than not is git repositories that are littered with passwords, access keys, secret credentials, etc. It’s bad practice from a security...
by ricktbaker | Nov 13, 2017 | Docker, Ubuntu
In the middle of upgrading a bunch of servers from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04. One of the services we utilize heavily is Docker. So, below you’ll find a simple guide to getting Docker CE running on Ubuntu 16.04. I won’t go into details on usage because...
by ricktbaker | Nov 8, 2017 | DevOps, Ubuntu
There are quite a few guides lying around the internet for getting Ubuntu 16.04 working with Active Directory. I followed a few of them, and always ended up with problems. Can su – to the user, but can’t ssh. Can su – to the user and ssh as the user,...
