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…
AWS Cognito and S3 Useful Commands
While I am delving into AWS Cognito and learning how it interacts with other services for example S3 object storage, I am jotting down some of the more useful CLI commands. This can be quite daunting to learn so it is very helpful to retain the commands for future reference.…
Object Storage Listing with Rclone and jq
Some examples of using rclone and jq to see object listing in a bucket. These examples was using Oracle (OCI) Object Storage but since this is rclone it should not matter what the target is. Rclone retrieving JSON object listing of a bucket: Use jq select to grab older than…
Vim And Auto Indent Unwanted New Lines
Recently I experienced a very annoying issue with copy/paste. Pasting a line using the Gnome terminal Control-V or Right Mouse Button caused the line to insert with an unwanted new line. I am not sure when or why this started but it could have to do with the file being…
Solaris Boot Environment And Lost Changes
Maybe you have similarly been perplexed like me when you are missing a file after a new boot environment(BE) was activated. In my example I know I created a file in my /root/Desktop folder and after pkg update and the resulting new BE was automatically activated and I rebooted I…
Restic and Oracle OCI Object Storage
It seems that after some time went by the S3 compatible object storage OCI interface can now work with restic directly and not necessary to use rclone. Tests a few months ago this did not work. Using S3 directly mean we may not have this issue we see when using…
AWS Lambda and Python
AWS Lambda is a server less computing platform. You can execute your code without provisioning or managing servers. Tested an example of copying a text file dropped into one S3 bucket to another. 1. Create a IAM role with the CloudWatch and S3 policies. Call role lambda_s3 and add policies:…
Terraform with Azure
Azure provides a cloud shell with Terraform already installed and even an editor aware of Terraform source. I tested creating a network and VM using the cloud shell in the browser. REF: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/terraform-install-configure Note: I am not showing dry run (terraform plan) but you should always be in the habit…
AWS Systems Manager and State Manager
I have used different configuration management tools for different use cases in the past. I liked how puppet had a central server and clients pull on a schedule. This way continuous control can be asserted. Ansible on the other hand is much simpler to use and works better during provisioning.…
Test Tcp Open Port
If you don’t have telnet or nc installed and want to quickly test firewall traffic to a server and specific port you can try this. It needs a new enough bash but still pretty quick and handy. Good test port is open Port not open Good test port is open…