A quick summary of what I have found out in Google Cloud Summit Sydney yesterday. GCP GCE offers pay-per-minute (minimum 10 minutes charge), AWS EC2 charges pay-per-hour GCP GCE offers customisable instance spec (up to 64 cores, 416G RAM), AWS EC2 only supports fixed instance spec. GCP GCE support live migration, AWS does not support … Continue reading What GCP offers but AWS does not?
Bypass WordPress Admin in Akamai
We use mini orange SAML plugin for wordpress SSO. I noticed it for many times that another user's name is showing in the dashboard ribbon after I logged in. It changes to my name after I click the 'Edit my profile'. So I guess it could be Akamai caching related. I have added the following … Continue reading Bypass WordPress Admin in Akamai
Missing Parts of OpenShift Dedicated
I have been working on OpenShift Dedicated (on AWS) for a few weeks. At the time of writing (v3.5.5.31), here are a couple missing parts that I have found out so far. They are all confirmed by the RedHat support. Share persistent volume across multiple containers: Currently there is no way to share the persistent … Continue reading Missing Parts of OpenShift Dedicated
fatal: unable to look up current user in the passwd file: no such user
If you get this error 'fatal: unable to look up current user in the passwd file: no such user' when run git command in a pod on OpenShift. Then try to to set up two environment variables as below. This worked for me. The reason could be that on OpenShift, the users are not in … Continue reading fatal: unable to look up current user in the passwd file: no such user
Cross-Region S3 Replication Monitor
Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/answers/infrastructure-management/crr-monitor/


