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March 17, 2022 D0nBale

Redis Sentinel Failover

redis

What is Redis Sentinel? Sentinel is the high availability solution offered by Redis, in case of failure in your Redis cluster, Sentinel will automatically detect

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March 16, 2022 D0nBale

Scaling a node out of a kubernetes cluster in kops

kubernetes

In this example we will be scaling out the test-nodes pod from one of our KOPS cluster. Draining the node of pods before deletion Login

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February 3, 2021February 4, 2021 D0nBale

Using Flutter with the updated amplify_flutter plugin

amplify, aws, flutter
Using Flutter with the updated amplify_flutter plugin

There are a lot of tutorials out there explaining how to use amplify with flutter, however, even the most recent ones use amplify_core which no

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July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 D0nBale

Bash Cheat Sheet

bash

Variables and User Input read -p “What is you name: ” name echo “Hello $name” read -p “What do you like to do: ” verb

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February 25, 2020 D0nBale

Setting up Pandora Network Monitoring

Uncategorized

In any environment it is important to have visuals over your entire networks to alert you to any potential security risk. A great opensource option

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February 3, 2020 D0nBale

Nextcloud keeps crashing (Solution)

NextCloud
Nextcloud keeps crashing (Solution)

Recently I have set up NextCloud running on an AWS instance in our private VPC. The predominant reasoning behind this was to provide a frontend

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October 24, 2019February 25, 2020 D0nBale

Permanently Set HOSTNAME in an AWS EC2 instance

aws, ec2

This is more when you want to create an AMI from an EC2 image and you want it to have a persistent hostname. This was

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October 15, 2019 D0nBale

Prepare a Centos6 AMI to use on C5/M5 Instances

aws, ec2

This blog is as much for me as anyone else: If it helps anyone else out there in IT land that’s great and I would

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September 25, 2019 D0nBale

Ensure DNS Nameservers are correct on EC2 startup

aws, ec2

vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 add PEERDNS=no sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf make sure this file is as you want it and then make a copy sudo cp resolv.conf resolv.conf.bk

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September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 D0nBale

Adding a Linux EC2 instance to AWS Managed AD

aws, AWS Managed AD, linux
Adding a Linux EC2 instance to AWS Managed AD

Step-by-step guide CENTOS (yum): sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/pbiso.repo http://repo.pbis.beyondtrust.com/yum/pbiso.repo sudo yum clean all sudo yum install pbis-open UBUNTU(apt): wget -O – http://repo.pbis.beyondtrust.com/apt/RPM-GPG-KEY-pbis|sudo apt-key add –

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D0nBale

UK based DevOps Engineer certified in Linux and AWS. Working with Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins & Docker Always learning...

cmdline magic...

for command in kubectl jq envsubst aws
do
which $command &>/dev/null && echo “$command in path” || echo “$command NOT FOUND”
done

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