Amazon route53 add geo based A record using python boto3 library | {Fetch,Decode,Execute & Share}

The following script looks just up my alley, as I am working on a python script to automate setting up servers around the world so that clients get served from a local server.   import boto3 client = boto3.client(‘route53’, aws_access_key_id=”AWS_KEY”, aws_secret_access_key=”AWS_SEC_KEY”) hostedZoneId = ‘HOSTED_ZONE_ID’ ip= ‘123.123.123.123’ if aws_region == “US”:     #US is my default region. …

Where to start? Scaling PHP applications on AWS –  CI CD too

This is an interesting read about AutoScaling in AWS using Autoscale and Load Balancer. It has some discussions about How to do this via Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (ci/cd) Here’s a rough approach to scaling any stateless app on AWS: Run the app in an Auto Scaling Group (ASG). An ASG makes it easy to …

How to Install and use Lsyncd on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 / Amazon Linux

To install lsync on Amazon Linux fist add EPEL repositories: sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm also see: http://www.marcburrows.com/using-lsyncd-with-aws/ Allow the Master Server to connect to the slave server without a password On the master server, log in through putty and run the following: ssh-keygen -t rsa You will get asked to enter the file in which to …

Configure a DNS record set change-resource-record-sets — AWS CLI 1.15.35 Command Reference

To list your resources aws route53 list-hosted-zones aws route53 list-resource-record-sets –hosted-zone-id BLABLALA –query “ResourceRecordSets[?Name == ‘example.domain.’]” Use this output as the base for rebuilding the input Json file. You can write a Jason File to input into this aws route53 change-resource-record-sets –cli-input-json –cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format …

Setup Hmailserver  with ssl works with Outlook 2016 but not with Roundcube 

How to generate custom self-signed SSL certificates and apply it to Dovecot – Plesk Help Center, producing the certs for HmailServer worked using these directions for OpenSSl for windows. http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html cd into install dir c:\openssl-win32\bin use .\ before each command.   I followed Generate root private key: # openssl genrsa -out rootCA.key 2048 Generate self-singed …

Postfix SMTP Authentication – On The Secure Port Only

Paste under mynetworks: ####### smtp auth smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtp_use_tls = yes smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus local_recipient_maps = smtpd_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom ######## Then: vi master.cf Paste under smtp: smtps inet n …

SAN Versus NAS: What’s the Difference and What Do You Need? – Interview test question

I came home after a test, preparing for the next test. I found that I got a question wrong about storage. I usually do cloud and it’s not on my resume, but still they asked and I failed.   SANs typically utilizes Fibre Channel connectivity, while NAS solutions typically use TCP/IP networks, such as Ethernet. But the …

knife.rb explained

source: https://gist.github.com/jtimberman/1718805   # Knife Configuration File. # # This is a Ruby DSL to set configuration parameters for Knife’s # general options. The default location for this file is # ~/.chef/knife.rb. If multiple Chef repositories are used, # per-repository configuration files can be created. A per repository # configuration file must be .chef/knife.rb in the …

Set Hmailserver to use Active Directory for User Login

Using Active Directory LDAP might be more secure than using the standard Hmailserver user verification. This was really simple, as most things are with HmailServer. I set the local Windows 2012 Server as the AD. Source: Install Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 show directions how to do this. I did this for our pre-installed Charming …