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
Permanently Set th HOSTNAME in an AWS EC2 instance
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
Prepare a Centos6 AMI to use on C5/M5 Instances
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
Ensure DNS Nameservers are correct on EC2 startup
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
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 –
Useful Puppet Commands
Show what puppet would have done without changing anything: sudo puppet apply –noop /examples/file_hello.pp See what change puppet would actually make to a file: sudo
Converting and Importing a Virtual Box VM into a AWS EC2 AMI
Sometimes we need to release our local Virtual Machines (VMs) into the cloud here’s how: First we need to add some confirguration to the local
Windows 10 Update Breaks My Fonts in Adobe Photoshop CS6
Ok this has annoyed me for a few weeks and finally today I found a fix so I thought I would share it: The Problem:
Creating your first Dockerfile
1. Create the Dockerfile Create an empty directory for this task and within this create an empty file with the name Dockerfile. You can do
Masterless Puppet: Connecting a Puppet agent to a central git repo
Step-by-step guide wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppet5-release-xenial.deb sudo dpkg -i puppet5-release-xenial.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install puppet-agent sudo vim /etc/environment add /opt/puppetlabs/bin to PATH source environment sudo