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Keeping your Cloud Costs in Check: Automated AWS Cost Charts and Alerting
Building and deploying infrastructure in the cloud is (by design) a very simple process. If a team is not being careful in their deployments, it can also become an expensive process. The… -
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Data Council Austin – Live – March 28-30, 2023
Finally, we round out a busy month witha. sponsorship booth at Data Council Austin for 3 days! If you are in the area – come by and say hello – we’d love…
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SRECON Americas, Santa Clara 2023 – Live – March 21-22, 2023
We’re super excited to be a Sponsor of SRECON in Santa Clara. Visit booth K7 – say hello to the team and get demos and giveaways!
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DevOpsDays Salt Lake City 2023 – Live – March 14-15, 2023
We’re super excited to be a sponsor of DevOpsDays SLC this year. Come stop by our booth and say hi. If you want to get started in your CloudOps Automation journey, Doug…
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Python 2023 – Virtual – March 9, 2023
Our virtual conference this month is Python2023. Doug Sillars is giving a talk: Automate your CloudOps and Spend Less Time Doing Operations It is already recorded and submitted, and it’s really good. …
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March 2023: Meet the unSkript team this month
This month looks to be a busy month for the unSkript team. We’ve got a number of events planned around the USA (and a few virtual too!), and we’d love to meet…
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Building Automated Charts to your RunBooks: Visualize the TTR for your team
At unSkript, our goal is build tooling that helps your CloudOps team reduce their manual toil, and make it easier for your team to automate the things we should be automating. In… -
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DeveloperWeek Oakland – Live – February 15-17, 2023
We started the year with a sponsorship and booth at Developerweek 2023 in Oakland for 2 days! If you are in the area – come by and say hello – we’d love…
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AWS Service Quotas: Discovering Where you Stand
We’ve written a few posts in the last week about AWS Service Quotas. These are restrictions on services that are set by AWS (but can often be increased). If our first post,…
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AWS Service Quotas, or AWS has a LOT of Services!
In our recent post, we unveiled unSkript Actions that can query AWS Service Quotas. Service quotas are limits imposed by AWS on how many times a certain AWS feature can be used. …
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AWS Service Quotas: What are they, and how can I increase them?
Everywhere we go, there are limits – speed limits, weight limits, capacity limits. AWS is no different. For many of the services offered by AWS, there is a service quota limit –…
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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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Managing your AWS bill Part 1: EC2 instances
In today’s cloud centric world, there is a monthly dread around the time your cloud bill arrives in your inbox. In a recent post, we walked through how to automate the creation…
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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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Automate the triviality in AWS using unSkript
Introduction 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… -
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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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How to perform an Elasticsearch Rolling Restart
Database-driven search engines often take a long time to respond to queries. This is where search engines like Elasticsearch come into play by storing, retrieving, and managing data using a NoSQL database.… -
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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… -
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KubeCon | CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Detroit – Live – October 24-28, 2022
We started the year with a sponsorship and booth at KubeCon | CloudNativeCon North America 2022 in Detroit for 4 days! If you are in the area – come by and say…
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Part 3 – Proactive Diagnostics and Remediation for Platform Reliability and Incident Response
In our first post we answered how you can start or improve your incident response using runbook automation in your organization. The second post gives you a framework for evaluating processes…
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SecOps Automation: Reminder for SSL Certificate Renewal
These days, there is no excuse not to enable HTTPS for your website. In fact, it is mandated by Google in early 2018. As per the report given by major certificate issuing authorities,… -
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Part 2 — Best Practices for Modern Incident Response: Why Monitoring, Alerting and Remediation are Not Enough
This second post in a 3-part series specifically looks into the ways leading organizations handle incident response today. In our first post we answered how you can start or improve your incident response using… -
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Part 1 — What is Incident Response, how does it work, and what do the best do?
This is the first in a three-part series designed to help you start or improve your incident response and runbook automation in your organization. Goals are to give you an unbiased framework… -
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Rotating AWS Access Keys for Enhanced Security
Cloud adoption is going on everywhere. One of the first things users learn when onboarding into their shiny new AWS cloud account is access controls! To consume cloud with AWS cli, access… -
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DevOpsDays Dallas – Live – August 24-25, 2022
We started the year with a sponsorship and booth at DevOpsDays Dallas 2022 in Plano for 2 days! If you are in the area – come by and say hello – we’d…
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Have you ever: Built a Service Health Check
Most of the tech giants including companies like Amazon, Netflix, started to build their systems using a monolithic architecturebecause back in the time it was much faster to set up a monolith…
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Three Critical Capabilities for Intelligent Automation of Incident Response
In my last blog, we looked at the various challenges impacting incident response and why its mostly a manual process. It’s time to look at what it takes to introduce automation into incident…
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Why is incident response such a manual process?
Tell tale signs that you need to take a close look at your MTTR In today’s agile world, service reliability can be directly correlated with customer satisfaction and successful business outcomes. However,… -
Domino Effects of the Facebook Outage
The need for Responsible Automation of Production Incidents Unless you are living under a rock, you saw the Facebook outage play out earlier this week. While not being able to share and…
