amazon-ec2-utils in Fedora
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The amazon-ec2-utils package in Fedora makes it a bit easier to find devices in an
AWS EC2 instance. ️🌤️
Cloud
2024
cloud-init and dhcpcd
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Fedora’s cloud-init package now uses dhcpcd in place of dhclient, which went end of life in 2022. 💀
2023
Moving to cloud is more than just a purchasing exercise
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Moving to cloud is about much more than just capital efficiency. It enables your teams to do more if they’re willing to adopt some new practices.
Mounting the AWS Elastic File Store on Fedora
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Fedora now has the AWS Elastic File Store (EFS) mount helper available for Fedora 38 and newer releases! It chooses optimized NFS mount options for you and makes mounting and unmounting a breeze.
CoreOS as a pet
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CoreOS provides a fast track to running containers with a light weight immutable OS
underneath. This doesn’t mean that you can’t keep it around as a pet instance. 🐕
Fedora on Oracle Cloud
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Add a Fedora x86_64 or aarch64 image to Oracle Cloud and launch an instance. 🚀
Monitor your AWS bill
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Nobody likes a surprise bill. Learn some ways to keep your AWS bill under control and
avoid that end of the month panic. 😱
Migrating to AWS CloudFront
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New experiences bring joy! After working with fun AWS CloudFront hacks at work this week,
I decided to migrate this blog to AWS S3 and CloudFront. ⛅
2022
Deploy Fedora 37 on Hetzner Cloud 🇩🇪
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Avoid cloud provider modifications and deploy a genuine release version of Fedora 37 on Hetzner Cloud. ⛅
Build a Tailscale exit node with firewalld
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Tailscale exit nodes allow you to route your traffic through nearly any system in your tailnet. Learn how to build an exit node using firewalld. 🕳️
Build a custom CentOS Stream 9 cloud image
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Learn how to customize a CentOS Stream 9 cloud image with the stuff you want and nothing that you don’t. 📦
2021
Deploy a custom Fedora 35 AMI to AWS with Image Builder
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Want to build your own Fedora 35 image for AWS? Use Image Builder to build and deploy an image made just for you. 🏗
Install Azure CLI on Fedora 35
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Provision services on Microsoft’s Azure CLI on Fedora 35. 💙
Deploy Fedora CoreOS in Hetzner cloud
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Launch your containers on Fedora CoreOS instances in Hetzner cloud with a few workarounds. 🚀
Build Fedora AWS images in GitHub Actions with Image Builder
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Build images for AWS and deploy them to your AWS account all within GitHub Actions. 🤖
2020
Build AWS images with Image Builder
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Build a customized image for AWS with Image Builder and use the built-in automatic uploader and importer.
2019
Fedora 30 on Google Compute Engine
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Fedora 30 is a great Linux distribution for cloud platforms, but it needs a little work to perform well on Google Compute Engine.
2018
2017
OpenStack isn’t dead. It’s boring. That’s a good thing.
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NOTE: The opinions shared in this post are mine alone and are not related to my employer in any way.
2013
A humble farewell to Seth Vidal
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I was shocked to see Robyn Bergeron’s email today about Seth Vidal’s passing.
2011
Tracing a build through OpenStack Compute (Nova)
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My work at Rackspace has changed a bit in the last few weeks and I’ve shifted from managing a team of engineers to a full technical focus on OpenStack Nova.
Xen 4.1 on Fedora 15 with Linux 3.0
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If you haven’t noticed already, full Xen dom0 support was added in the Linux 3.
2010
Accessing Rackspace Cloud Servers and Slicehost slices privately via OpenVPN
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Diagram: OpenVPN to Rackspace Cloud Servers and Slicehost
A nerd’s perspective on cloud hosting
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Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: The following post contains only my personal opinions.
Private network interfaces: the forgotten security hole
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Regardless of the type of hosting you’re using - dedicated or cloud - it’s important to take network interface security seriously.