Tag Archives: AWS

MySQL/MariaDB: like Petya ransomware for MySQL and ‘root’@’%’ access

3 April 2019
 

  This story happened on 10/06/2017, adding this post in English now. The original post (Rus) was written almost right after the well-known Not a Petya attack in Ukraine – that’s why it’s used in the title. I had a new project assigned to me. When I started its existing setup investigation – was just… Read More »

AWS: CLI named profiles

19 March 2019
 

 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 »

Terraform: creating a project with an AWS EC2, VPC, and AWS cross-region VPC peering connection

18 March 2019
 

 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 »

Terraform: main commands, state-files, backend storages, and modules in examples on AWS

17 March 2019
 

 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 »