Kyle Pericak

Created: 2020-01-09, Modified: 2020-01-09

Restrict access to a specific AWS Lambda function using an IAM policy scoped to its ARN, then invoke it from Python with boto3 and access keys.

Created: 2020-01-08, Modified: 2020-01-08

Create your first AWS Lambda function in Python, define a test event, and understand pricing per request and per GB-second of execution duration.

Created: 2020-01-08, Modified: 2020-01-08

Extract a corporate CA certificate with openssl s_client and install it on Ubuntu via /usr/local/share/ca-certificates and update-ca-certificates.

Created: 2019-12-17, Modified: 2019-12-17

Inject VirtIO KVM drivers (viostor, Balloon, NetKVM) into a Windows 10 VHDX image with Dism so it can boot on OpenStack Glance after qcow2 conversion.

Created: 2019-12-16, Modified: 2019-12-16

Restoring a USB drive's full size on macOS after dd or Etcher shrank it for a boot disk, using diskutil eraseDisk and, if needed, zeroing the partition with dd.

Created: 2019-12-13, Modified: 2019-12-13

How to install a current Node.js version on Ubuntu with Ansible using the nodesource apt repository. Covers why NVM fails in Ansible and includes complete playbook tasks for the apt key, repo, nodejs, and npm packages.

Created: 2019-12-03, Modified: 2019-12-03

Automate OpenStack workloads with Ansible os_ modules. Covers auth, projects, users, quotas, networks, volumes, and launching VMs on an existing cloud.

Created: 2019-12-02, Modified: 2019-12-02

Put HTTPS in front of an HTTP-only static site like Google Cloud Storage using Cloudflare's Flexible SSL mode and the Always Use HTTPS redirect.

Created: 2019-11-28, Modified: 2019-11-28

An ongoing deep dive into Google Cloud Platform, with hands-on posts covering Cloud Build, Cloud Storage website hosting, Container Registry, and Firestore.

Created: 2019-11-27, Modified: 2019-11-27

An ongoing deep-dive project exploring AWS services hands-on, covering EC2, Lambda, S3, ECR, Fargate, API Gateway, and CodePipeline with working examples.

Created: 2019-11-25, Modified: 2019-11-25

A deep-dive index of OpenStack posts covering Kolla-Ansible installs on metal and VMs, custom Kolla images, Ansible automation, and why run a private cloud.

Created: 2019-10-25, Modified: 2019-10-25

Enable Vim's built-in spell checker with :set spell spelllang=en_ca, jump between misspellings with ]s and [s, and fix, add, or flag words using z=, zg, zw.

Created: 2019-10-14, Modified: 2019-10-14

Read and write Google Cloud Firestore documents from Python, with pricing comparisons against Datastore mode and a walk through collections and references.

Created: 2019-10-11, Modified: 2019-10-11

Deploy a Python 3.7 HTTP-triggered Google Cloud Function that returns the caller's IP, with notes on pricing, invocation costs, and testing from the console.

Created: 2019-09-26, Modified: 2019-09-26

Upload and download files to AWS S3 from Python using boto3, with IAM policies, user groups, and a dedicated service account for programmatic access.