Tips & Tricks
How to have the Best Stargazing Experience from a Backyard Observatory
Passion is a driving force. It can make you crazy about things that are important to you. When you are passionate about something, you get too excited and forget to follow proper protocol. If you
Courses I did to become a cloud ninja
A lot of people have been asking me how did you study for your cloud certifications? So I decided to make a small post and list all the courses I did or are working through
How to set a white background in Windows and Windows server
I was creating a tutorial and to make some snippets I did want my background to be white. Unfortunately it seems that in the newer versions of Windows is not available by right clicking and
AWS Cli Commands to remember
Just some commands for me to remember so I can look it up easily. Upload Certificate: aws iam upload-server-certificate –server-certificate-name ulyaoth –certificate-body file://2_ulyaoth.crt –private-key file://3_ulyaoth.key –certificate-chain file://1_Intermediate.crt –path /cloudfront/ Delete Certificate: aws iam delete-server-certificate –server-certificate-name
Rack::OnePiece
A while back I found this funny piece of code for ruby applications that adds an “X-Chuck-Norris” header to all your site requests. I changed the coding to make it so that it adds an
How to create a SELinux policy module file
We had to create a selinux rpm for our ulyaoth-nginx-pagespeed rpm and the steps below is how we generated the policy. First install the required package “policycoreutils-python”: $ yum install policycoreutils-python Simply start the program
How to install a graphical desktop on Fedora Server
We had some issues with getting a Graphical Desktop environment to work on a Fedora Server edition, in out case we needed it to test the Spotify rpms. We resolved it as following: Step 1:
Output to Elasticsearch with Rsyslog in Logstash format
This post is just a reminder of how to ship logs directly from rsyslog to Elasticsearch so we have to go trough Logstash. We got allot of help from the people on the rsyslog mailing
How to make Nginx log in JSON format
To get Nginx to log in JSON format you have to add the following to “nginx.conf” under the http bit: log_format json ‘{ “@timestamp”: “$time_iso8601″, ‘ ‘”message”: “$remote_addr – $remote_user [$time_local] \\\”$request\\\” $status $body_bytes_sent \\\”$http_referer\\\”
Nginx SSL example
*** This post dates from 2014 and I would recommend to use the Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator to get a more accurate configuration: https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/ *** This post is more of a reminder for myself but
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