Saving a Few Shekels on your AWS bill
I have a jumpbox that I use to access resources in the cloud – and I use it at work, only during work hours and only on workdays. There are usually 720 work hours in the month or 744 in months that …
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Subscribe via RSS →aws-vault on a Chromebook
I have moved almost exclusively to a Chromebook for my day-to-day work (a whole other set of blog posts - on the journey and outcome are planned), and I was missing one of the tools in belt and that …
The AWS World Shook and Nobody Noticed
A few days ago at the AWS Summit in New York there was an announcement which in my honest opinion went very noticeably under the radar and i don’t think many people understand exactly what it …
Getting Hit by a Boat - Defensive Design
In a group discussion last week – I heard a story (I could not find the origin – if you know where it comes from – please let me know) – which I would like to share with you. John was floating out in …
Encounters in the Cloud - Interview
This is a translation of an interview I gave to IsraelClouds (a meet the architect session). Hello, my name is Maish Saidel-Keesing. I am a Cloud and DevOps architect at CyberArk in Petach Tikva. I …
Comparing CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible - Simple example
Whenever someone asks me what tools do you use to provision your infrastructure within AWS - the answer is it can be done with a variety of tools - but people usually use one of the following three …
Comparing CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible Part #2
The feedback I received from the first comparison was great – thank you all. Obviously the example I used was not really something that you would use in the real world – because no-one actually …
Microsoft to acquire Github??
Microsft is currently in negotiations to acquire. Github. Github.com. Github, it’s the place where we all store our code, all our open source code. I was actually quite shocked. There is this …
My commentary on Gartner’s Cloud MQ - 2018
As a true technologist – I am not a favor of analyst reports and in some circles Gartner is a dirty word – but since most of the industry swears by Gartner – I went over the report. Here are my …
To Be a 10x Engineer, or Not to Be
I am sure you are all familiar with those select few in your company who supposedly have super powers or hidden technological gifts. Yes, I mean those co-workers who know exactly how to fix the most …