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Getting a shell inside a container on AWS ECS
Sometimes you need to be able to get a shell in an ECS container (ie. bash). Mostly this is to debug some issue in the container. Before 2021 this was practically impossible until AWS launched ECS Exe ...
Get a cheap VPN into your AWS VPC and worldwide performance improvement through Cloudflare tunnels
In this article you can read about cheap VPN for your AWS VPC and better performance through Cloudflare tunnels.
How to run Hashicorp Vault Cloud together with Laravel
In this end to end tutorial I will show you how to run Hashicorp Vault Cloud together with Laravel. I made example code in Terraform so you can see how you can provision your Vault cluster on HashiCor ...
Debugging unexpected issues with Terraform
Since Terraform is relatively new software, you might need to fix issues in a undocumented way. You can spend hours debugging internal providers this way but there are a couple of ways that can help y ...
Extreme MongoDB database performance with AWS Fargate Sidecars
When you use MongoDB or any other database as a transient data store you will be mainly limited by the network performance of your containers.
Use pull through cache on ECR to circumvent Docker Hub rate limits
Update November 2023: AWS now natively supports Docker Hub so you can use it directly. You can still use this module if you need custom Docker lines for an image (for example an volume mount).
You do not need that bastion host, there are better alternatives
This article discusses why you do not need that bastion host and what the alternatives are. Do you have any further questions after reading this article? If so, please contact me.
Manually fix your Terraform statefile in case of emergencies
The golden rule of infrastructure as code is not to change the infrastructure manually. However manual changes can happen by accident. Leaving the infrastructure in an inconsistent state.
Wake on LAN EC2 instances
EC2 instances can not support wake on lan natively because they use virtual interfaces (ENI’s). Normally wake on lan works by sending a magic packet to a mac address of an interface.
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