Get AWX running on your Mac Please note: It looks like how AWX is installed has changed since I wrote this article. The version I wrote it for was 17.x.x. https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/INSTALL.md It looks like they’ve deprecated Docker and now recommend you install via AWX Operator instead. Therefore while this article may be…

The nuclear option to housekeeping cloud-nuke is a tool you can use to completely obliterate resources in your AWS account. That’s right. Completely. Obliterate. gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke This repo contains a CLI tool to delete all resources in an AWS account. cloud-nuke was created for situations when you…github.com Why on earth would you want to do that, I hear you cry? We’re in the business of building clouds, not destroying them. …

No news is bad news Today I encountered an issue with AWS Chatbot. Chatbot is the AWS service I use to send triggered CloudWatch alarms into Slack. Unlike email, people might actually read them there. Issues with Chatbot aren’t unusual. I’ve been using it since it was in beta*, and…

Or, how I learnt to stop worrying and start cursing the day I was born This is a listicle of things you need if you don’t want to die cold and alone on your first datacentre trip. Good luck. You’re gonna need it. 1. Headphones Unless you like the monotonous drone of…

Presented by Toby Jackson, Senior Operations Engineer @ Future — Sensu is a distributed scalable monitoring solution, written in Ruby with a JVM option for Enterprise users. It has multi-master redundancy using a message broker architecture to distribute messages from clients. Clients are configured to either push messages to the master, or provide results in response to requests from the masters.