HowTo: enable termination protection for all EC2 instances not in autoscaling groups via aws cli

aws rds describe-db-instances | jq '.[][] | select(.DeletionProtection == false) | .DBInstanceIdentifier' | xargs -L1 -t aws rds modify-db-instance --deletion-protection --db-instance-identifier

The general purpose T instance types are a good starting point. But depending on the CPU utilization of your workload, a fixed-CPU instance from the M or C series offers better performance for a lower price.

General

• T instances have...

If the project you're working on has, say, 39 repositories and counting in GitLab and you need all the repos checked out for some reason, here's how to do it.

Checking out all repos

1. Create a personal access token for GitLab that has the `A...

When using many or very long entries of MIME-types that shoudl be gziped in gzip_types directives in nginx you might not be able to successfully reload the service and get this error message instead:

nginx: [emerg] could not build the tes...

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Requirement

• Set the compose key of your desktop environment. I use `Caps Lo...

1. Install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface

2. Show existing certificates to test if the AWS Cli is working:

   $ aws iam list-server-certificates
   {
     "ServerCertificateMetadataList": [...
   

If you end up with an Elasticsearch cluster which has a very different disk usage on it's nodes you can use these steps to rebalance the shards.

Before we begin it's important to understand how Elasticsearch defines [balance](https://www.elastic....

This is not encouraged because this change is easily forgotten. We recommend using this only if you know what you are doing.

Should you be in need to run puppet from a branch (called environment in puppet land) other than production for a...