Start or Restart a Forever process with ansible

by | Dec 10, 2018 | Ansible, DevOps

Have a few processes that we run with Forever that I have been working on automating.   Needed to be able to start them if they are not running and restart them if they are.  The restart was a bit tricky.  Usually you can just restart the process name, but since some...

Tag your AWS cloudwatch log groups

by | Dec 4, 2018 | AWS, DevOps

Been on a new job for a few months now. One of the first things I noticed is we were getting a huge bill for AmazonCloudWatch PutLogEvents and we weren’t quite sure what was the primary culprit. So, ended up creating a small tool to tag all of our log groups and...

AWS EKS kubelet error updating node status

by | Dec 4, 2018 | AWS, DevOps, Kubernetes

Recently started setting up an AWS EKS cluster. Everything working fine, but decided to look at the kubelet logs on one of the nodes and saw a bunch of errors like these: Dec 01 09:42:52 ip-172-26-0-213.ec2.internal kubelet[4226]: E1009 09:42:52.335445 4226...