My journey to work in cloud technology
My prep for the AZ-104 has been a bit all over the place, in part because of the transition from the 103 to 104, but the quality disparities from one content provider to another leaves a student a bit dioriented. Plurals…
I didn't want to take a fundamentals cert, since I've been in the cloud 5 years and the basic concepts don't change, just the arrangement and color of the deck chairs. However, my boss said the more certs the merrier and…
As the new job requires me to be proficient in Azure and Terraform, I took the opportunity to practice deploying resources and taking notes. It's been really interesting and is an ongoing effort, as I prepare for the fir…
The last two years as an IT contractor have been really intense, with both of my contracts ending early and giving that uneasy unemployed feeling. My last assignment with a major media company has been a great opportunit…
As part of my disaster recovery process, I make a daily AMI snapshot of the servers and copy it to my disaster recovery target region. As that AMI ID changes each day, I need a way to get the current day's ID into my Clo…
Now that I have most of the disaster recovery scripts built (still testing and solving little issues, but getting close!), I thought I'd give Jenkins a try. I've built a freestyle job and used the AWS CloudFormation plug…
This script creates an AMI of each running instance, tags them with a datestamp, copies them to a disaster recovery region, and trims images that are 7 days old. This script needs some refactoring, but works at the momen…
At this point, I am working on my disaster recovery plan by developing templates of my school's current resources. I have come to understand that CloudFormation is great if you are only working with AWS resources. Terraf…
I just got back from taking the test, and I am so relieved. That test was much harder than the Solutions Architect Pro exam, and even though I've been reading and practicing for a month, I didn't score as high as I would…
Studying for my AWS professional certifications introduced me to the wonderfully difficult to read world of JSON and CloudFormation templates. Once I discovered you can write them in YAML they became a bit less intimidat…