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Scratching an itch with aws-vault-url

I think that aws-vault is a really nice tool. It prevents you from saving your AWS credentials in plain text on your machines (which is always a good thing) Since I started using it – I found a number …

  • Automation
  • Tools
  • Management
  • AWS
3 min read

A Triangle is Not a Circle & Some Things Don’t Fit in the Cloud

We all started off as babies, and I am sure that not many of you remember that one of the first toys you played with (and if you do not remember - then I am sure those of you with kids have probably …

  • Design
  • Architecture
  • Miscellaneous
  • Cloud
4 min read

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 …

  • Scripting
  • Administration
  • AWS
  • Cloud
1 min read

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 …

  • chromebook
  • AWS
5 min read

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 …

  • Amazon
  • Miscellaneous
  • Announcement
  • AWS
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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 …

  • Design
  • Architecture
  • culture
  • Learning
5 min read

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 …

  • interview
  • bio
  • Miscellaneous
  • profile
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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 …

  • Scripting
  • Ansible
  • AWS
  • Cloud
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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 …

  • Microsoft
  • opinion
  • Miscellaneous