Month: August 2013
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Delete Orphaned AMI-Related Snapshots
I recently worked with a client where there were a number of Amazon EC2 AMIs where not all of the disk volumes were set to delete on termination. This caused quite a few snapshots to become orphaned when the associated AMI was deleted. This was discovered when there were hundreds of snapshots and no active […]
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puppet node name using FQDN rather than short name
I recently deployed puppet to a host of machines and ran into an issue with getting one of the hosts to read the /catalog. * puppet 2.7 * Amazon Linux Wed Aug 14 22:11:39 +0000 2013 Puppet (err): Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 403 on SERVER: Forbidden request: hostname.example.com. (10.0.1.20) access to […]