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AWS CLI Error: All commands return Unknown output type [None]

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AWS CLI Error: All commands return Unknown output type [None]

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts. Often times the ~/.aws/config is having some configuration issues and needs to be reconfigured or modified. This is because there are multiple declarations for the same setting…

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AWS Command-Line Interface: How to configure AWS CLI [Part 1]

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AWS Command-Line Interface: How to configure AWS CLI [Part 1]

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts. The AWS CLI v2 offers several new features including improved installers, new configuration options such as AWS…

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AWS/Azure/OpenShift

How to prevent emails from going into a junk folder in Office365

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How to prevent emails from going into a junk folder in Office365

My use case was Nagios notification not delivering into our user’s inbox but rather into the Junk folder because of not having the right domain name. In other to prevent this false positive from moving emails from a specific Email ID to the JUNK folder in Outlook. Kindly refer to this related guide: How to…

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Network | Monitoring

Chef – Node Bootstrapping

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Chef – Node Bootstrapping

The Chef-Client agent runs Chef recipes on both physical and virtual servers, often called nodes or instances. Associating nodes with the Chef ensures the chef server installs the chef-client software on the nodes. Note: The minimum supported version of chef-client on nodes associated with OpsWorks for ChefAutomate Server is 12.16.42. We recommend running chef-client 13.6.4. Chef – Node Bootstrapping…

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Configuration Management Tool

Repo: How to setup Chef Repository

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Repo: How to setup Chef Repository

As discussed in https://techdirectarchive.com/2018/12/14/get-started-with-opsworks-for-chef-automate/  It is recommended to placed in Git of any of the VCS your cookbooks etc. A Chef repository contains several directories. Each directory in the StarterKit contains a README file that describes the directory’s purpose, and how to use it for managing your systems with Chef. There are two ways to get…

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Configuration Management Tool

Get Started with OpsWorks for Chef Automate

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Get Started with OpsWorks for Chef Automate

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef Automate server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status Provision a Chef Automate Server in AWS. Follow this link https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/chefautomate/ and ‘click on get Started…

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AWS/Azure/OpenShift

How to setup SPF and TXT Records in AWS

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How to setup SPF and TXT Records in AWS

An SPF record is a TXT record that is part of a domain’s DNS zone file. The TXT record specifies a list of authorized hostnames/IP addresses that mail can originate from for a given domain name. Kindly refer to the following similar guides: How to add a custom domain name to Azure Active Directory, and…

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AWS/Azure/OpenShift

View Scheduled Events on AW using AWS Web Console and CLI

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View Scheduled Events on AW using AWS Web Console and CLI

In this article, you will learn how to View Scheduled Events on AW using AWS Web Console and CLI. AWS can schedule events for your instances such as a reboot, stop/start, or retirement. Please see How to find out who restarted Windows Server, the Various methods to launch the Event Viewer, and “How to detect…

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AWS/Azure/OpenShift

Create Simple Notification Service (SNS) Notification on AWS

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Create Simple Notification Service (SNS) Notification on AWS

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed messaging service that enables the sending of notifications via various communication channels. Such as SMS, email, or HTTP endpoints, to subscribed recipients. This article will discuss how to Create Simple Notification Service (SNS) Notification on AWS. Please see SSL Encrypted Communications explained, how to disable Ads…

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AWS/Azure/OpenShift

AWS Opsworks For Chef Automate

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AWS Opsworks For Chef Automate

Chef Automate provides a full suite of enterprise capabilities for workflow, node visibility and compliance. Additionally, it integrates with the open-source products Chef, InSpec and Habitat. Moreover, Chef Automate comes with comprehensive 24×7 support services for the entire platform, including open-source components. Now, let’s discuss AWS Opsworks For Chef Automate. Please see how to setup…

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Advantage of using a 3rd party software for Backup (N2WS by Veeam) over AMI

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Advantage of using a 3rd party software for Backup (N2WS by Veeam) over AMI

N2WS is a leading provider of enterprise backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS), Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Aurora, and Amazon DynamoDB. Kindly refer to these related guides to more on other Veeam products. How…

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Backup

AWS CodeCommit: A Guide to Efficient Usage

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AWS CodeCommit: A Guide to Efficient Usage

AWS CodeCommit is a secure, highly scalable, managed source control service provided by Amazon web services that you can use to host your Git-based code repositories. This service enables teams to collaborate securely on code, properly encrypting it in transit and at rest. Please see how to deploy a .NET application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using AWS…

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Version Control System