Moving Out of Management
A few years ago, I hired a guy for one of my teams who had been a senior director at a pretty large company who wanted to move back to being an individual contributor. At the time, I really could...
Quickhit: Deleting Available Disks older than X Days in AWS
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately cleaning up AWS resources that are no longer in use. While I am working on a more permanent solution, I came up with a quick couple of CLI commands that help me...
Reserving EC2 Instances from the Command Line
I have been spending a lot of my time lately looking at ways to optimize our spend in AWS and Google Cloud. Part of that is submitting reservations for our EC2 instances. Since I am not a fan of clicking...
Enabling VPC Flowlogs in Google Cloud
I have been working on a project recently where having detailed network information has been very helpful. I thought that it would be a good idea to share what I have learned recently about enabling VPC flow logs in my...
Managing IAM in AWS with Terraform
For the last few years, my go-to for managing IAM in AWS has been Ansible. At one of my previous companies, my team had written a really cool Ansible role that not only created the users/groups/roles/policies that we needed, but...