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Bash Script that installs curl gets stuck asking to restart services

Hits: 422You need to put the following sudo UCF_FORCE_CONFOLD=1 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confold” -qq -y install curl Even if you add -y to your apt command t still asks you whether it should restart services ┌───────────────────────────────┤ Configuring libssl1.1:amd64 ├────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ There are services installed on your system which need to be restarted …

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Fixing Authorization Failure in Ubuntu VM AWS CLI by Synchronizing the Clock

Hits: 505AWS EC2 CLI “AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials” I am just trying to run my aws cli from a VM that I keep on a disk-on-key. I added the credentials several times, even creating new accounts. After a few hours of growing perturbance add desire for violence. Running simple …

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Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certificate Configuration with AWS Route 53

Hits: 555I am happy to back working as a Devops using AWS. In my new job at https://www.dragontail.com/ I need to automatically produce wildcard certificates from certbot. The instructions at the link seem really good. Wish me luck! Unfortunately there was little clear documentation for configuring all this unless you were an expert magician trained …

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How to Set Up Free SSL Certificates from Let’s Encrypt using Docker and Nginx

Hits: 588I am not sure why, but I have had some mental blocks with certificates and letsencrypt. The link below explains it really well how to do containerized nginx with letsencrypt free certificates. Beware! it requires running with sudo. The rest of the app I am “DevOping” runs fine as user ubuntu with docker-compose, if …

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jcolemorrison.com: The Technical Side of the Capital One AWS Security Breach

Hits: 544Hey guys! Keep your cloud safe. So you won’t have regrets Okay, so the hacker is in the box – what happened next? Well, once you’re in an EC2 Instance…a lot can go wrong. You’re pretty much walking on the edge of a knife if you let someone get that far. But how did …

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How to set up LACP bonding interface on CentOS 7 | Snel.com

Hits: 1065I am installing multiple systems with Linux Bonding and LACP mode 4 which uses IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Policy. In the mean time I am looking at 2 links, as we are using Red Hat 6.9 https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/lacp-bonding-and-linux-configuration/ as well as the following: LACP bonding network interface setup A bonding network interface could be used …

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 Introspection of baremetal nodes fails with ‘No hypervisor matching’  when node name used instead of uuid

Hits: 981Introspection fails due to use of Host Name instead of UUID When I do introspection on baremetal servers that will be used as for Redhat TripleO Openstack 13 (This is the same as RDO Queens)  I start with just one. Before this I import the instackenv.json file with all of the baremetal server details …

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