The first AWS Quest started in May of this year. As you may recall, my trusty robot companion went to pieces after burying some clues in this blog, the AWS Podcast, and other parts of the AWS site. Thanks to the tireless efforts of devoted puzzle solvers all over the world, all of the puzzles […]
0 CommentsDecades ago, I wrote page after page of code in 6502 assembly language. After assembling and linking the code, I would load it into memory, set breakpoints at strategic locations, and step through to make sure that everything worked as intended. These days, I no longer have the opportunity to write or debug any non-trivial […]
0 CommentsLast year we launched new AWS Regions in France and China (Ningxia), and announced that we are working on regions in Bahrain, Hong Kong SAR, Sweden, and a second GovCloud Region in the United States. South Africa in Early 2020 Today, I am happy to announce that we will be opening an AWS Region in […]
0 CommentsThe blog post that we published over a decade ago to launch the Simple Monthly Calculator still shows up on our internal top-10 lists from time to time! Since that post was published, we have extended, redesigned, and even rebuilt the calculator a time or two. New Calculator Starting with a blank screen, an empty […]
0 CommentsIt is time for a quick Amazon RDS update. I’ve got lots of news to share: Console Update – The RDS Console has a fresh, new look. RDS Recommendations – You now get recommendations that will help you to configure your database instances per our best practices. Performance Insights for MySQL – You can peer […]
0 CommentsJenkins is a build and automation tool. It’s used to monitor the execution of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Traditionally, the process of building and deploying software has been a bit more drawn out. Usually developers would write code and commit it to a repository. Then operations […]
0 CommentsRecipes are a collection of resources, written in Ruby. Chef doesn’t have a custom DSL to learn(yay!). It doesn’t take a full fledged Ruby developer to write code for Chef, understanding the basics will be more than enough to functions productively while using Chef. Basic programming principles can also be applied to recipes. This means […]
0 CommentsA resource is a desire state of configuration for a given item, and the code block describes the desired state and steps for achieving the desired configuration. Resource are managed within “recipes” and are generally grouped together within cookbooks for specific software and tasks. A resource maps to a “provider”, which defines the steps to […]
0 CommentsWhenever Chef runs on a node, a Convergence happens. There are 3 steps to a convergence. They can be a part of an automated workflow pipeline, or run manually. Pre-convergance Pre-convergance happens before Chef is run. It can be added using Chef Automate or Chef Workflow, it can be added manually, or using tools like […]
0 CommentsChef is a configuration management and deployment tool, designed for the management of nodes within an environment. Configuration management is the process of managing systems that ensures consistency of different settings, according to a known blueprint. It doesn’t rely on institutional or tribal knowledge gathered from multiple resources on the development or ops team, and […]
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