If you experience very high Master CPU usage, and low index throughput, you may be seeing the effects of a put-mapping conflict. This can best be confirmed through querying the […]

I was working on a project with a client where I wasn’t able to initialize a terragrunt deployment when using SSO: The version of the AWS CLI that I was […]

Proxy requests to AWS ElasticSearch and Kibana using nginx. I use the following nginx configuration, deployed via puppet template. The nginx proxy is an EC2 instance within an AutoScaling Group […]

I recently started using the aws_okta_keyman utility created by nathan-v to authenticate using Okta MFA when using the AWS CLI on some AWS accounts. This is a very handy tool […]

With the large number of individuals and teams using terraform, it can be difficult to work with the many versions of terraform in a large company, or with multiple clients. […]

The following command will list the current firewall rules: To add a new rule, issue the following command: Next, reload firewalld: List the rules again to confirm: RE: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/security_guide/sec-viewing_current_status_and_settings_of_firewalld

I was building an AWS Code Pipeline recently with terraform to deploy a new rails application on an ECS cluster and encountered the following error: The problem in the buildspec.yml […]

I was recently working on a problem with Tableau Server where restore operations were failing due to a ServiceOperationTimeoutException. The restore was failing to a new server, that was maintained […]

Even though a user is in the Administrators group, when opening a powershell console, or running a scheduled task, even with “highest privileges”, the powershell script does not run with […]

I finally migrated my web and email hosting from Rackspace to AWS. I have been with Rackspace since the Slicehost days, back in September of 2009. I’ve gone from having […]