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New C5 / M5 / T3 instance disk names

When we started using the new C5, M5 or T3-class instances (e.g. t3.micro, m5.large, m5d.large, c5.xlarge, etc) we noticed that the disk device names are no longer the classic /dev/sda1 or /dev/xvda that we were used to for years. The new root disk name is /dev/nvme0n1 with the partition device names being /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, [...]

By |October 2nd, 2018|Misc|0 Comments

Linux user authentication with SSSD / LDAP

Current Linux distributions can seamlessly work as members of Active Directory domains which gives them access to the AD authentication system. However it requires the Linux hosts to "join" the AD domain, for which one has to posses some special AD privileges. In many cases this is not viable and we may only want a [...]

By |October 17th, 2017|Best Practice|13 Comments

Let’s Encrypt certbot-auto problems on Amazon Linux

Let's Encrypt certbot-auto support for Amazon Linux is still marked as experimental and as such we occasionally encounter unexpected problems. The most recent one was introduced with certbot-auto 0.19.0. During install or upgrade from previous versions you may get an error like this: Upgrading certbot-auto 0.18.2 to 0.19.0... Replacing certbot-auto... Creating virtual environment... Installing Python [...]

By |October 8th, 2017|Best Practice|1 Comment

Using AWS Storage Gateway Virtual Tape Library in Linux

If you are of around my age or younger you probably didn't have much exposure to tape backup technologies. Tapes are sooo 90's right?! I definitely didn't expect that as an AWS Consultant I will have to learn about tapes. But I did! One of our customers wanted to use AWS Storage Gateway (SGW) in [...]

By |September 20th, 2017|Best Practice|0 Comments

Joining a Linux EC2 instance to Active Directory realm

This post is not too AWS-specific, in fact the steps below should work not only on Amazon Linux but also on RedHat Linux, CentOS and Oracle Linux and posibly on Debian and Ubuntu based distros as well. There is a number of prerequisities for a successful completion of this task. At least the following records should be [...]

By |June 6th, 2017|Best Practice|9 Comments