drew jessAWS AutoScalingPlans, RollingUpdates and CloudFormationWe’ve been exploring the world of AWS AutoScaling Plans recently. Being captivated by the tasty-looking Predictive Scaling for EC2, we were…May 18, 2020May 18, 2020
drew jessDeclarative Jenkinsfiles: Dynamic Parallel StagesBeen working on replacing a crusty old Jenkins job recently that’s used for scaling up a load-testing environment. Currently, it’s a good…Apr 29, 2020Apr 29, 2020
drew jessMacs, Control Characters, and iTerm2I always forget how to do this. And I always lose Brad Erickson’s excellent article that taught me how to fix it. So here it is, for…Mar 31, 2020Mar 31, 2020
drew jessTimeouts Loading Data from S3 to AuroraBeen working on a data migration recently which involves loading a pretty big tab-separated file into an Amazon Aurora (MySQL) database and…Apr 20, 20181Apr 20, 20181
drew jessPuppet CA Host Certificate ExpirySo you read the title and thought “Hey, I just read that article!”, right? Nah, here’s another article about Puppet CA Server certificates…Oct 25, 20171Oct 25, 20171
drew jessPuppet CA Certificate ExpiryHard to believe it, but it’s coming up on five years since our company stood up its first Puppet master. No cake here. Instead, all we get…Oct 25, 2017Oct 25, 2017
drew jessConnecting the dots with `scp`Today, one of my colleagues was having trouble copying some files between Linux boxes. As a result, I learnt something about scp that I…Nov 18, 2016Nov 18, 2016
drew jessDeleting EBS Volumes While SnapshottingI’ve been working with AWS quite heavily recently. A lot of the time, I find myself thinking, “I wonder what happens if I do this…”Jul 26, 2016Jul 26, 2016
drew jessShimming a disk into a VxVM disk groupWe had a problem with an Oracle database on a four node Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) cluster recently. The symptom of our problem was that…Sep 25, 2015Sep 25, 2015
drew jessUsing dlpiping to test VCS heartbeatsImagine you have a couple of hosts with Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) installed, configured with the recommended two heartbeat interfaces…Sep 16, 2015Sep 16, 2015
