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...
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Courtesy of the AWS subreddit , I was alerted to the fact the recently-updated AWS Service Terms (to covertheir new 3D Lumberyard Game Engine ) have included this specific clause: 57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS...
Today AWS announce a long-awaited upgrade to their G2 family of instances – the g2.8xlarge. The big brother of the 2x , which was hitherto the only GPU-backed instance available on the AWS platform. Here’s how the two compare in specifications: Instance vCPU ECU Memory (GiB) Instance Storage...
It’s been a long time coming but my company is now fully based on Amazon Web Services EC2 for our web hosting. It’s been a long journey to get here. For more than 15 years we’ve cycled between a variety of providers who offered different things in different ways. First our sites were hosted by...
If like me you maintain a WordPress website, you might have recently noticed a number of referrals to your site coming from one of the following: buttons-for-website.com, buttons-for-your-website.com, best-seo-offer.com, or some other unknown, dodgy-sounding website that clearly isn’t linking to...
Developers and businesses around the world will be breathing a huge sigh of relief today as Amazon Web Services finally announced the ability to have invoices generated and charged in one of 11 new local currencies. Since its launch in 2006, AWS has exclusively billed in US dollars worldwide,...
A little while ago I wrote up a summary of the distributed.net RC5-72 project . One of my habits over the years has been to run the good old cow client on every new computer I’ve built just to see how the speed compares. So when I picked up a new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B this week, this habit held...
Check and change an EBS volume’s DeleteOnTermination setting on a running EC2 instance, with a JSON mapping and a read-back check.
History Anyone kicking around the internet since the early days will have heard of distributed.net ‘s RC5-72 distributed computing project. Arising from RSA labs Secret-Key Challenge , the project sought to utilise distributed computing power to perform a brute force attack in an attempt to...
