AWS autoscalers, to me at least, are the service that standout as being one of the most “Elastic-y” in the Elastic offerings from AWS. They can be configured to automatically expand and shrink on demand.  Which by most definitions is pretty elastic. Autoscalers can be configured to fire up more ec2 compute instances when demand […]

If you have ever wanted to make a change to some of the settings to your php setup via PHP.ini file then using puppet and the augeas type could be the perfect solution. Augeas will read in a configuration file and allow you to specify changes and save them for you. Augeas is not actually […]

If you are planning to use other AWS resources from your EC2 Instances, then you will generally have to provide a credential set to authenticate. One good method of granting authentication to your EC2 instance is through the IAM role system. This allows applications or scripts to access EC2 resources without the need to hardcode* […]

This very simple example shows you how to delete snapshots taken of rackspace cloud volumes older than N days. In this example N days will be 7 days. This example makes the following assumptions: -you have a Pyrax installed -you have your Rackspace API credentials key. -you know your Rackspace volume uid – which looks […]

This very simple example shows you how to take a snapshot of a Rackpace cloud volume. This document makes the following assumptions: -you have a Pyrax installed -you have your Rackspace API credentials key. -you know your Rackspace volume uid – which looks like this: 56568786-4659-67575-9ab3-6767968 1. Add the pyrax import 1 import pyraximport pyrax […]

If you end up with a lot of unused EBS snapshots in your AWS account in the interests of good housekeeping, you will often want to purge these to clean up and save some money. However, if you have inherited an AWS account full of EBS and you aren’t 100% sure whether it is safe […]