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I’m happy to report that just shy of two years after I posted that I’m an AWS Certified Solutions Architect! (Associates level), that I’ve now leveled up to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional level! As my AWS experience has hit the roughly 5 year mark (and my associates was expiring) it turned out…
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If you work in the cloud, you’ve probably got an AWS account. It’s not just any account though, it’s the magical “AWS Root Account”. With this root user account, you are imbued with the god-like power to create worlds and smite instances. Your power is only limited by the thickness of your wallet (and the…
We’re continuing our hat-trick streak of weekly OpsCrash episodes. Episode #3 was recorded on Sunday May 22nd, but the posting got a little delay due to… slackers. We managed to finally limit ourselves to just 23 minutes of witty banter covering the latest in: nano wins at SSH, GitLab love fest, custom ASIC for fun…
Rancher-Logo There are a lot of container management services poping up these days and right now Rancher is my choice in solutions (for the moment). One of the coolest accessories to go with this container ranch is RancherOS. The OS is purpose built to do nothing but Docker and, in fact, runs the few required…
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate I’m pleased to report that as of Wednesday afternoon I’m an AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate. While I’ve been working in/on/around AWS for years now, it’s nice to have the certification that proves I know what I’m doing. Amazon’s testing, unlike a lot of the certifications in tech…
AWS re:Play. Yes, the outside is a wall of [FEU shipping containers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit#Forty-foot_equivalent_unit ‘[wiki] Twenty-foot equivalent unit’). (From [@Werner](https://twitter.com/Werner/status/653134135700123648)) As expected, AWS re:Invent had more goodies in store for us after the Day 1 keynotes session. Most of the excitement centered around the new product announcements from the Day 2 keynote. The major difference between the…