Using Amazon Relational Database Service
Intro Amazon recently released a new service that makes it easier set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud called Amazon Relational Database Service. The service, based on MySQL...
View ArticleBuilding Your Own Cloud From Scratch
Intro There are a lot of private cloud solutions out there with great things built into them already to complete a full cloud stack – networking, dashboards, storage, and a framework that puts all the...
View ArticleDynamically Update Hypervisor Guest Info in Chef With Rehai
Introduction It turns out this little tool is long overdue, as simple of a concept as it is, but also easy to misunderstand the use cases for, ours at Etsy however was very targeted. Several years ago...
View ArticleRunning Strace in Docker
I’ve been reverse engineering a new application setup and seemed like an appropriate place to try out docker. Spinning up a lightweight and reproducible environment is the goal and containerization is...
View ArticleConfiguring Chef for Provisioning
If you’re working with infrastructure its good practice to describe it using code so that it is reproducible and consistent across servers and development environments. I’ve used Chef for quite some...
View ArticleApproximate Times to Update an RDS Instance
Here’s a quick overview from an upgrade a couple months ago of an RDS instance type db.t2.medium to type db.r3.large. In addition to changing the instance type, we upgraded the disk from 64GB to 100GB,...
View ArticleProvisioning Docker Containers With Chef
I’ll be totally honest in saying even though the Dockerfile is the supported way to build docker images, I have not quite bought into building my containers using the format. I believe the main thing...
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