Saturday the 15th of October we leaved the comfort of our couches (have we already said we are a distributed team from all around Italy?) to leave to the glorious destination of Rome! The ancient town best known for the engineers of the Roman empire, was once again at center…
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Getting informations on a running instance from the inside is a tedious task and it’s usually done in an insecure and error prone way. With this article we want to show you our way to get instance tags from the inside of a running instance. Setting up your Ec2 instance…
It’s said necessity is the mother of invention and in this article we’ll show the reason why we initially wrote s3-pit-restore. Our infrastructure heavily rely on S3 object storage to store the several millions files our users everyday produce. S3 works reliably and everything went well until we were in…
Sometimes happens, as it happened to us, that you have one or more services you want to share between your VPCs. For us, the case was for an ELK stack that we use internally to monitor the state of our infrastructure. With this article we want to share our recipe…
We were looking for a way to have our EC2 EBS volumes snapshotted on a daily basis. We already use AWS and Ansible, so the solution comes quite straightforward: Ansible + AWS = Daily Snapshots Our procedure works with Ansible >= 2.1. First step is about gathering every information required to build the…