Confluence Auto Archive Solution


I have been working on the Confluence space archiving project recently. Here is my design which is already in production. And it works like a charm 🙂 I will explain a bit deeper into the two major automations: Confluence Online Archiving Automation The Online archiving does 3 things: Set the space status to Archive. This … Continue reading Confluence Auto Archive Solution

Synchrony cluster failed to start with outbound proxy in AWS


If your synchrony cluster failed to start in AWS, the Collaborative Edit in Confluence will not work. And if your environment meet all the following criteria. Then I think you are in the right place. As I had the same issue, and finally figured it out that Synchrony has seperate JVM settings. The proxy settings … Continue reading Synchrony cluster failed to start with outbound proxy in AWS

Port Forwarding over AWS Session Manager


Continue with the Session Manager over PrivateLink, another good use case for session manager is port forwarding. Here is a quick demo: First, login into the EC2 instance with session manager to install a Apache server # Install Apachesudo yum -y install httpd # Start Apache web serversudo systemctl start httpd # Ensure port 80 … Continue reading Port Forwarding over AWS Session Manager

Use AWS SSM Session Manager Over PrivateLink


AWS SSM Session Manager is a great addition to the existing AWS services, simply speaking it provides a secured, manageable and easier way to access the instance inside the VPC, and more (e.g. port forwarding). There are two ways to use session manager: over Internet vs over PrivateLink. Over Internet: The instance communicates to the … Continue reading Use AWS SSM Session Manager Over PrivateLink