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Home Archives for cloud, edge and everything in between tips and tricks
Tip of the day: domain intelligence services by CentralOps

Cloud Insidr 2020-01-10 Leave a Comment

Tip of the day: domain intelligence services by CentralOps

Here is one nifty service that can dig up useful information about a website, a domain or an IP address and it doesn’t cost a dime.

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Filed Under: DNS, tips and tricks, Uncategorized, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: domain, network, tip, Whois

It’s never too late: cron 101

Cloud Insidr 2019-07-23 Leave a Comment

It’s never too late: cron 101

Good ol’ fashioned cron can greatly simplify system maintenance.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, Linux, tips and tricks Tagged With: automation, cron

How to expand the EBS boot volume of a Linux-based EC2 instance

Cloud Insidr 2018-06-10 Leave a Comment

How to expand the EBS boot volume of a Linux-based EC2 instance

This is easier than you probably think: AWS will expand the EBS boot volumeĀ of an EC2 instance running Linux automatically when you launch a new instance off of it with the desired capacity.

Here is how it works in more detail.

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Filed Under: tips and tricks Tagged With: AMI, AWS, EC2, Linux

Tip: assign multiple IP addresses to an EC2 instance

Cloud Insidr 2018-02-28 Leave a Comment

Tip: assign multiple IP addresses to an EC2 instance

[Updated 2018-06-11.] You can assign multiple IP addresses to an EC 2 instance. Here is a brief summary that will get you started on using the most recent AWS capabilities.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, cloud, edge and everything in between, Linux, tips and tricks Tagged With: AWS, AWS EC2, CLI, cloud-init, EC2, Fedora

How to install the AWS CLI tools on Fedora, quick and easy

Cloud Insidr 2017-11-10 Leave a Comment

How to install the AWS CLI tools on Fedora, quick and easy

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a set of tools AWS provides to allow you to administer your AWS cloud infrastructure and other services in the command line on Windows, Mac and Linux. Installing them is quick and easy. Here is a quick guide to get you started.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, Linux, tips and tricks

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