Continuing the setup of the new RTFM server. The next step is configuring the ability to send mail from EC2, since both important messages for the root user and RTFM itself need to send emails. I was thinking of using AWS Simple Email Service – purely to refresh my memory on how to work with… Read More: AWS: Amazon Linux – Sending Email with Postfix via Gmail1… »
Every time I need to do this, I have to look it up, even though I’ve written about it somewhere before – but it was a long time ago: manually increasing the disk size on an AWS EC2. You get used to Kubernetes, where it’s enough to just change a value in a PersistentVolumeClaim, and… Read More: AWS: Increasing the EBS volume size on an EC2 instance… »
While preparing the infrastructure for migrating RTFM from the DigitalOcean server to AWS (see AWS: basic infrastructure setup for WordPress) I decided to also try AWS ALB mutual authentication (for some reason I thought this feature launched at the last re:Invent, at the end of 2024, but it’s actually been around since late 2023 –… Read More: AWS: ALB and Cloudflare – Configuring mTLS and AWS Security… »