Author / Doug Sillars
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Security Checkup: Force AWS Load Balancers to redirect to HTTPS
When on a hike – you always want to take the most secure path, and not risk taking an unsafe route. With so many features now in the Cloud, it can be…
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Copying AWS Amazon Machine Images Across Regions with unSkript
When you are building a distributed platform, You’ll need to regularly update the machines that you have deployed around the world. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), one way to do this is…
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Building a Healthcheck RunBook: Analysis of K8s Logs
There’s nothing worse than an outage. Every outage has a cost – both in revenue, sales, but also reputation and perceived reliability. No one wants their company to appear in the news…
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Extending unSkript Actions: Quick Customizations of ‘Off the Shelf’ Code
unSkript has hundreds of built-in Actions that allow you to quickly build integrated Runbooks with popular Cloud providers, databases, and more. But sometimes, the supplied Actions are not exactly what you are…
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Will AI replace us? Using ChatGPT to create Python Actions for unSkript
Over the last few weeks, ChatGPT has been the buzz of the development world. One of the biggest questions that has been asked is “Is the AI coming to replace developers?” Will…
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Managing your Cloud Costs with CloudOps Automation Part 1: Identifying Your Resources with Tags
Moving systems to the cloud makes a lot of sense operationally – letting the experts take care of the infrastructure, and let us build what we need to make our company successful.…
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Cloud Ops Auto Remediation: A Holiday Allegory
Auto remediations are tools that respond to events with automations able to fix, or remediate, the underlying condition. Building a demo that features auto remediation fix is hard, because generally modern infrastructure is resilient… -
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Automating the AWS Identity Lifecycle with unSkript (Part 3)
This week, AWS is celebrating all that is AWS at their re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Here at unSkript, we are celebrating all that is AWS by highlighting how to automate common… -
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Automating the AWS Identity Lifecycle with unSkript (Part 2)
This week, AWS is celebrating all that is AWS at their RE:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Here at unSkript, we are celebrating all that is AWS by highlighting how to automate common… -
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Automate the AWS Identity Lifecycle with unSkript (Part 1)
This week we are celebrating AWS re:Invent by highlighting common AWS tasks that are ripe for automation. In our first three posts for re:Invent week, we’ll build and extend some basic identity… -
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DNS: Is your domain healthy?
DNS: Is your domain healthy? When your website goes down, you risk losing customers, revenue, and credibility. When there is an issue — it is critical to know as quickly as possible…
