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A recurring question with AWS Lambda functions is how to properly use third-party binary executables in the Lambda execution environment. A lot of people like to use precompiled binaries but often they’re not available and the only option is to compile the package you want to use from source....
AWS announced on the 28th August 2019 that the entry-level certification – AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – was now available to be taken remotely from the comfort of your home or office. This certification is comparatively recent, having been released in December 2017, and would be redundant...
If you’re using the AWS ACM console to create a certificate, and at the final stage you get this annoying and useless com.amazon.coral.service.InternalFailure , I’ve got the solution for you. You’re probably working in an AWS Organization with a Service Control Policy (SCP) or a restricted IAM...
This is a true story, although names and details have been removed or changed to protect the awful. Quotes however are verbatim. As often happens when you have ‘DevOps’ in your job title, I received some recruitment agency spam from someone I’ll call Jane, c/o LinkedIn, alerting me to a...
So you want a simple Slack failure handler for Ansible to ping your alerts channel whenever a deployment fails. Despite a thorough search I couldn’t find any examples that did this adequately, and even the solution here is a little constrained. The basic requirements are: A Slack notification on...
