by ricktbaker | 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...
by ricktbaker | 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...
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 | Oct 24, 2017 | AWS, DevOps
With some of the recent search engine changes, It’s not uncommon to want your site to run completely under https. If you’re running on AWS with an Elastic LoadBalancer in place, then you have to go about it a bit differently so you don’t end up with...
