Tips for the CKA and CKAD in 2020

UPDATED 05/05/2020: Updated a handful of links based on the April 2020 changes to both exams, having moved to Kubernetes v1.18.x UPDATED 02/03/2020: Updated a handful of links based on the January 2020 changes to both exams, having moved to Kubernetes v1.17.x Intro I’ve been wanting to learn Kubernetes for a while now. Thanks to Linux Academy, I’ve been able to get two Kubernetes certifications provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation:...

January 10, 2020 · 7 min · Derek Ardolf

AWS CloudFormation Service Availability Per Region

UPDATE 2023-05-02: The repository I created for this is archived, but others are free to fork and maintain a version if they’d like. I haven’t used CloudFormation for a long time now, and this repository was for the most part automatically able to just run by itself up until recently. It may still be able to continue running automatically if spun-up, as-is, with tokens that had the proper permissions to open PRs and automatically merge them....

January 4, 2020 · 5 min · Derek Ardolf

OpenVPN on AWS via CloudFormation

Intro Want to automatically deploy an OpenVPN EC2 instance, running on Amazon Linux 2, to AWS? One that auto-produces an OVPN configuration file that is compatible with OpenVPN Connect, on both Android and iOS? This article is a breakdown of the following CloudFormation template repo: ScriptAutomate/openvpn-cfn: Deploy OpenVPN to AWS via CloudFormation and Amazon Linux 2 Feel free to fork it, star it, test it, and comment on it! Want an in-depth look at how it works?...

November 8, 2019 · 12 min · Derek Ardolf

AWS Lambda's Node.js v8.10 Runtime Approaching End of Life (EOL)

Node.js v8.10 EOL I just wanted to drop a little post into the DEV universe that Node.js 8.10 is soon to reach End of Life (EOL). With the Node.js 12.x now available on AWS Lambda, people should evaluate how they can tweak and migrate their code to work with it. Version 12.x is considered one of the Long-Term Support editions according the the Node.js Release schedule. What’s This Mean? Name Identifier End of Life Deprecation (Create) Deprecation (Update) Node....

November 7, 2019 · 2 min · Derek Ardolf

AWS CloudFormation Resource Specification Auditor

UPDATE 2023-05-02: The repository I created for this is archived, but others are free to fork and maintain a version if they’d like. I haven’t used CloudFormation for a long time now, and this repository was for the most part automatically able to just run by itself up until recently. It may still be able to continue running automatically if spun-up, as-is, with tokens that had the proper permissions to open PRs and automatically merge them....

October 18, 2019 · 8 min · Derek Ardolf