AWS CLI supports so-called named profiles stored in the configuration file .aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials file with keys which by default contains the… Well – the “default” profile. An additional profile can be added using the aws configure command with the –profile option. Here is an example of such file with already existing two profiles: [simterm]… Read More »
We have jobs which have to be executed on a Dev and Production environments via a Scripted Pipeline. In such jobs, there are tasks to execute CloudFormation upgrades on an infrastructure or Ansible playbooks to update servers configuration. To avoid an accidental execution of a Production job I want to have some confirmation step before… Read More »
The task is to send an email alert when SSH-login was made from a not whitelisted IPs. Will use Monit here. Install it: [simterm] root@jenkins-dev:/home/admin# apt update && apt -y install monit [/simterm] Configure email settings: set localhost (we have a local eximhere), email’s format and email’s receiver. Edit the /etc/monit/monitrc file: … set mailserver localhost… Read More »
One of the disappointing surprises in my AWS CloudFormation experience was the fact that it wasn’t able to automatically create cross-region VPC-peering connections. Note: this post originally was written in Rus on 28 June 2018 but now CloudFormation can do it, check the PeerRegion parameter of the AWS::EC2::VPCPeeringConnection resource. As a result – it tries… Read More »
Examples of how to use Terraform, work with its backends and modules. Here will set up a simple EC2 instance in AWS and will store Terraform’s state-files in an AWS S3 bucket. In short terms – but with real examples and links to documentation. Installation on Arch Linux: [simterm] $ sudo pacman -S terraform [/simterm]… Read More »
After the news that Dropbox adds a new limitation for users by the three devices only – I’m finally ready to install my own NextCloud to store and synchronize data. The sad thing is not exactly the three devices limit (and it will be applied for a new users only – old user who already… Read More »
During connection to a Jenkins using its CLI – it finished with an error. Exactly in a console, there was nothing in the output, but after issuing echo $? to display last command’s execution return code – there was the 255 response as I remember – didn’t save it to this post’s draft. The connection… Read More »
YAML – is one of the most popular formats of the… Well, actually, they don’t know the format of what… Originally it was the «Yet Another Markup Language», later it became «YAML Ain’t Markup Language»: Originally YAML was said to mean Yet Another Markup Language,[12] referencing its purpose as a markup languagewith the yet another construct, but it was then… Read More »
We have an old Jenkins with a bunch of iOS jobs which needs to be copied to a new Jenkins instance. Documentation suggests to: Move a job from one installation of Jenkins to another by simply copying the corresponding job directory. I.e. the first solution is just to copy a whole jobs directory or copy… Read More »
Have the telegram-desktop installed via pacman on the Arch Linux. After starting – no systray’s icon present and thus can’t see new messages and even can’t exit in a normal way. This issue is not specific for the Arch Linux and happens on any Linux systems. Go to the Google and make search with “telegram linux… Read More »