Category: Cloud computing
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How to use iptables in Ubuntu to block whole countries
Sorry, Yemen, you don’t get to see this post.
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What is dot sourcing in PowerShell?
Scope in an interactive shell is different
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Watch your EC2 Windows instance boot
AWS console feature doesn’t need RDP
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Graphically deregister AWS AMIs and associated S3 snapshots
PowerShell’s Out-GridView cmdlet rocks
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Understanding AWS RDS recovery
RDS backup and restore are (mostly) automatic
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Saturday night’s all right for encrypting
With apologies to Elton John
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A primer on using Vagrant with AWS to launch EC2 instances
Sitting on my hard disk, eyeing virtual machines with good intent
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How to make your site more secure with HSTS
And why you should care
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How to enable SQL Server 2008 R2 authentication mode with PowerShell
Some of my friends who follow this blog have told me that they have no idea what I’ve been posting about lately. That’s because my recent posts have been mostly about helping people who are Googling specific questions. If you are one of my pals who who’ve stuck with me here, thank you. I appreciate it.…
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How to use PowerShell in Chef to install Windows Server features
Chef — the wildly popular configuration management system, whose motto is “infrastructure as code” — treats Windows as a second-class client, despite all protestations from from its creator, Opscode, to the contrary. Still, you can do some cool stuff with Windows and Chef in PowerShell, as long as you can stand the Ruby “domain specific language” that Opscode…
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How to display a nicely formatted path in PowerShell
I’m setting up a Chef environment on Windows, and like most devops/architect tools, you need to set the path environment variable to let the system know where all the good stuff is. (Path is one of those things that never dies.) Displaying that path is easy if you use the old Windows command prompt shell.…
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How to use Route 53 private DNS with EFS mount targets
How to use the Elastic File System with DNS