I had a recent problem where I needed to disable IMDSv1 on an older application that could not be upgraded. The boto3 version was 1.8.9 and would require significant changes […]

After installing docker on Ubuntu 20.04, in order to run docker commands against the docker daemon, you must add the user to the docker group. If a permissions denied state […]

With the recent license changes on Docker Desktop, many users have switched to minikube on Mac. minikube is simple to setup and run, and also gives you kubernetes. Everyone should […]

I recently updated a deployed helm chart’s ingress definition to add an SSL redirect on port 80 and was surprised to find that the operation also resulted in the removal […]

Unliked managed node groups, EKS worker node groups have to be recycled outside EKS after updating the AMI reference. I recently migrated all of my hosted sites from ECS to […]

The update to wordpress 5.8 has resulted in all helm deployments failing due to liveness and readiness probe failures. The problem seems to be that if the wordpressScheme is set […]

If deploying the Bitnami WordPress helm chart to an existing external database, without wp-content populated, and the wp_users table does not have a user entry with id = 1, the […]

I was migrating a site from AWS ECS to AWS EKS recently, using the bitnami/wordpress helm chart and came across the following error: I spent quite a while troubleshooting this […]

First of all, thank you to Bitnami for providing such valuable helm charts to the community. What a great resource! Why doesn’t Bitnami support adding an SSL redirect for AWS […]

Years ago (>5), I signed up for a dropbox.com account to work with a client. I have been charged an annual fee for this years, even though I have not […]