Zonal Shift is a free service from AWS, which allows users to disable an Availability Zone (AZ) for resources. In this post, we will walk through what it does and observe the results.
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Upgrade AWS RDS instance using blue/green deployment
Objectives:Use blue/green deployment to update an RDS instance from 8.0 to 8.4Check replication statusSwitch to staging (green) instance keeping DB endpointFall back if application cannot work with 8.4
External modules on Terraform
External terraform modules can speed up IAC deployments, promote code reuse, and let us do things more consistently. In this post, I will demonstrate 2 ways to use an external module.
Free is the most expensive
Today, I found out my domain one.27 is offline. Took me a while to figure out freenom might have deleted my domain for unknown reasons. Fortunately, this is just a personal blog. Nothing important runs off this domain. Spent half hour to reconfigure my cloudflared argo tunnel and changed the header image. Everything is back…
Connecting to AWS workspace using RDP
AWS recommends using Workspace client to connect to workspace instances. But perhaps your corporate IT will not install workspace client for typical reasons. If you want to connect with RDP, you can and here is how.
RDP v10.0
Quick comparison of several RDP profiles.
ipfs
Brought to my attention by a friend, I gave ipfs a try and here is what I did to get started: $ brew install ipfs $ ipfs init $ ipfs version ipfs version 0.4.14 $ hostname > test.txt $ ipfs add test.txt added QmNqNJh8Y7s65ioV6mqqmQUeSoy7UK3BemQExzqF8163HY test.txt $ curl https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNqNJh8Y7s65ioV6mqqmQUeSoy7UK3BemQExzqF8163HY xpk-pro.comme.ca $ ipfs get -o test.txt QmNqNJh8Y7s65ioV6mqqmQUeSoy7UK3BemQExzqF8163HY…