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Building a better VPC

The best thing about AWS for me has always been that I am not at the mercy of a NetSec team whenever I need to deploy a new network. Having the ability to ad...

Install homebrew for Mac

This one is really simple but people ask me how. So you can either visit http://brew.sh and follow the directions or just kick off this curl request.

Install AWS CLI on OSX

You are going to need to make sure you meet a few requirements to install the CLI tools but you should already have most in place. Python 2 or Python 3.3+ Pi...

Extend LVM partition

This is really easy and is something every linux admin should know. In this example we are going to extend it to be 500MB. If I wanted to add 500MB then I wo...

Set service to start on reboot

Come across this one all the time still. To set a service from init.d to start on reboot you can doo the following. First list the service that are available...