awslabs/aws-cloudformation-templates is an extensive collection of Amazon AWS CloudFormation templates for a wide range of resources and services. Some of these can be used as is for deploying production infrastructure, others are good starting points for those of us who are still learning.
Category: Sysadmin
System administration is a special are of IT. It also has a special place in my heart. It is an interesting mixture of all the other disciplines, both common across the whole industry, and at the same time unique for each person, company, and geographical location. When I have something to say or share about system administration, I use this category.
Build load-balanced servers in AWS EC2 using CloudFormation
“Build load-balanced servers in AWS EC2 using CloudFormation” is an excellent guide on deploying load balancer servers with EC2 instances to Amazon AWS cloud with CloudFormation infrastructure management tool. The guide covers a variety of topics from the actual deployment to security and monitoring.
There are many different approaches for load balancing traffic in Amazon AWS, and this one is not a holy grail solution, but it provides plenty of insight into available tools and options.
How To Secure A Linux Server
How To Secure A Linux Server is a nice collection of tips and tricks on improving the security of a Linux server. There are some well-known bits like SSH key authentication and firewall configuration, as well as some less common bits like multi-factor authentication and RAM disk for /tmp.
Nginx Quick Reference
Nginx Quick Reference is an excellent summary of notes on tweaking the performance and security of the Nginx web server configuration.
PHP Docker images
phpdaily/php is a collection of the daily updated Docker images for a variety of PHP versions. Interestingly, these include even the most recent development versions, like PHP 8.0.