Autosam is a project that I created to automate the Akamai Cloudlets Edge Redirect from end to end, including add new rules, remove duplicated rules if there are any, push to staging, test in staging, push to production, test in production. Now it is available for download from my Github repo. Enjoy Autosam 🙂
Check DNS Cache when deploy Multi-AZ RDS
It is a common practice to enable mutli-AZ when deploy RDS in AWS to provide high availability. That's not all. There is one more thing you need to check - DNS cache setting of your applications/codes. If you overlook it, the hight availability design may not work as you expect. Imagine that when RDS detects the failure … Continue reading Check DNS Cache when deploy Multi-AZ RDS
Elastic Beanstalk fail to launch environment
Elastic Beanstalk automatically creates S3 buckets under your AWS account to save the data (manifests, logs, application versions...) that is used by itself. If the files are gone, the environment may fail to lauch. Here is a real example: One of the power users set up a lifecycle against the Beanstalk bucket to automatically remove … Continue reading Elastic Beanstalk fail to launch environment
Hubot: CloudHealth ‘Oh My Bill’
'Oh My Bill' is a plugin that uses CloudHealth API to get your AWS cost report. Here are two files you need if you are interested to use: lib/omb.js and scripts/omb.js
Hubot: akamai
Previously I wrote a post talking about performing some Akamai operations in Hubot. Here is how it looks in Slack. The plugin includes two files: lib/akamai.js and scripts/akamai.js
Jackie Chen's IT Workshop 