Hands up if you have following setup/practices in your organization:
A RDP server (Terminal server) that everyone can jump onto. Apart from the IT admins, some users have local admin rights on the box, just so they can run or configure a particular application.
To help troubleshooting an issue, your IT admins often RDP to servers directly from user’s laptop, which the user is a local admin.
Like Cloud Formation and ARM Templates, Terraform enables the way of Infrastructure as Code to provision resources in Clouds, but it also works with on premise infrastructures like VMware vSphere and NSX. I recently have been working on the automation of on premise server provision process. The goal is to provision a Ubuntu server on our vSphere 6.5 environment with iPerf3 installed and configured.
It surprises me that there aren’t many useful resources/examples out there when comes to using Terraform with VMware.
The past week I attended AWS Summit Sydney for three days. It’s such an action packed show. Full of brilliant speakers and tons of interesting workshops. I feel so hard to decide on my agenda. In the end, based on the technologies I am interested in and the relevance to my job these are sessions I went for.
AWS Innovation Day
Keynote - I was late for it. But still It was good to hear the story of Qantas and learn about how they improve performance and efficiency with AWS.
I recently run into a scenario, which one of EC2 instances in our production AWS account (IT) need to access a S3 bucket hosted in a separate account (Marketing). The EC2 instance is a Windows 2008 R2 server. It runs Cloudberry Drive to map the S3 bucket as a local volume for a local application to retrieve the data off it.
The easiest way to make this work is to create an IAM user in the and assign it with Access keys.
In this article I would like to share an un-documented way of setting up AWS SSO by using Okta.In case you don’t know what Okta is. It is one of the popular identity management solutions out in the market. It provides Identity as a service through its Web portal and APIs.
There is a detailed document provided by Okta walks through steps of how to setting up SAML SSO between your AWS accounts and Okta.
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