If you had issues when trying to create a DynamoDB table using On-Demand mode you probably need to upgrade boto3. I was using the apt repository version of python3-boto3 (1.4.2) and getting this message below. Unknown parameter in input: “BillingMode”, must be one of: AttributeDefinitions, TableName, KeySchema, LocalSecondaryIndexes, GlobalSecondaryIndexes, ProvisionedThroughput,…
OCI Cli Query
If you want to manipulate the output of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI commands you can pipe output through jq. I have examples of jq elsewhere. You can also use the query option like follow. And for good measure also a jq example. Plus csv filter.
Azure AD SSO Login to AWS CLI
Note out of scope here is setting up the services itself. This article is about using a Node application to login to Azure on a client and then being able to use the AWS CLI. Specifically this information applied to a Linux desktop. Setting up the services are documented here:…
Bash History Plus Comment
If you like using Control-R in bash to find previous commands here is a useful tip. You can add a comment to a command and then when you use Control-R searching by typing you can find it by your comment. Example I use apt update. Run command including your comment…
Powerline Font Issue
I am using Powerline in my terminals and had an issue with the font. After messing with it I realize I was using a font that has not been patched for Powerline. I changed the gnome-terminal font from “Fira Mono Regular”to “DejaVu Sans Mono Book” and it worked. My steps…
Quick Backup and Purge
I highly recommend using restic instead of what I am talking about here. Mostly I am just documenting this for my own reference and this is not a great backup solution by any means. Also note: This script is creating backups local of course the idea would be to adapt…
Virtualbox Guest Additions Shared Folders
This may help someone so I am jotting down an issue I had. On some Linux flavors you may see the Virtualbox Guest additions shared folders not auto mounting on your desktop. I have seen this before but recently this was on Linux Lite for me. The issue is that…
Python Tar Backup and Purge
While I was working on a related project to use python to write to cloud object storage and the logic around purging; I jotted down some quick and dirty code here for my reference to build on. Normally I would recommend using the excellent restic program but in this case…
ZFS on Linux SMB Sharing
Having worked on and liked ZFS for a long time I am now using ZFS on my main Linux desktop. I thought it would be nice if I can just turn on SMB sharing using ZFS but after playing with this for a while I gave up. Seems like one…
AWS Storage Gateway Test
I recently wanted to take a quick look at the File Gateway. It is described as “Store files as objects in Amazon S3, with a local cache for low-latency access to your most recently used data.” I tried it on Virtualbox using the Vmware ESXi Image they offer. Steps: Download…