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Hello World! Welcome to this blog. I am @ Palo Alto Networks by day and author of this blog by night.

Most of the posts highlight what I am focused on and express work and personal experience. Reason I put them here - recall later or help someone else with similar challenge.

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postgresql jquery locale issue games cloudfront aws ec2 microsoft free tier iso aws s3 image pbx psexec fail2ban g729 minio jekyll deployment backup ntfs cloudberrylab orchestration macbook html materializecss wysiwyg nokogiri tags acts_as_toggable paperclip swap fix digitalocean asterisk mixmonitor mount bucket administration windows s3 compatible https ec2 nested hyper-v scripts bat certbot capistrano ssl jumpbox meetup debian macos password awsrus certification cloudacademy exchange rails efs static site amazon s3 python amazon sns amazon efs aws ses smtp seo rails console linux mac amazon powershell chrome erudinsky cloud VMware virtualisation blog containers storage google virtualbox ruby cli hyper-v docker Azure DevOps kubernetes CKA CKAD azure Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Container Registry 
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Authenticate with Azure Container Registry from Azure Kubernetes Service
As an engineer I want to pull container images that are part of my pods' deployments to Azure Kubernetes Service (further - AKS) from private container registry Azure Container Registry (further - ACR). But when I create pod with image from ACR it fails with ErrImagePull error. How to fix this? ... more
4 months#azure #Azure Kubernetes Service #Azure Container Registry
Build and release Docker Compose using Azure DevOps
Build and release docker compose application using Azure DevOps in an automated manner using multistage yaml pipeline. ... more
about 2 years#docker #Azure DevOps #azure
How to pass kubernetes exam
This article contains several recommendations for passing kubernetes exams (both CKAD and CKA). ... more
over 2 years#kubernetes #CKA #CKAD #azure
Jumpbox on-demand in Azure Cloud with web-based ssh console
I've been playing with ACI ("serverless" containers in Azure) and were thinking about use case of this wonderful service. Ended up with jumpbox as one of the example ... more
over 3 years#jumpbox #docker #azure
How to use S3 Compatible Minio with CloudBerry
Here at CloudBerry, where one of the goal I have is to help partners decide, pick and build right configurations for dealing with computers data when they need backup solution. FTP, SCP, WebDav and some other proprietary protocols have been here forever, where simplicity and flexibility made them number one in data protection and management fields as primary target configurations. But, there is big BUT... ... more
about 4 years#minio #backup #cloudberrylab
How to PsExec powershell software on remote machine
In this short article you will learn how to use PsExec with remote powershell script to download, execute and clean up software. You can do it for multiple computers in super easy way. ... more
about 4 years#aws s3 #psexec #cloudberrylab
Episode #2: Build your own free PBX with Asterisk
AWS EC2 free tier. In this episode we are going to build absolutely free PBX (telephony system) based on Asterisk free switch hosted on our Amazon free EC2. ... more
about 4 years#aws ec2 #free tier
Episode #1: AWS backup to S3
Looking for free option to backup your data? No issues, - have a look at various options available with AWS S3, AWS CLI or 3d parties for your sensitive data. ... more
about 4 years#aws s3 #backup
How to install Google Chrome using PowerShell CLI
I know how annoying it is when you need Chrome on your server and you have to go through intensive security barriers of MS Explorer, so here is quick CLI recipe on how to get Chrome.. ... more
over 4 years#powershell #chrome #google
What is possible with AWS free tier
I made light talk on one of our recent #AWSRus community gathering in Moscow and decided to discover this topic with further series of posts in my blog covering various AWS services. ... more
over 4 years#free tier #amazon
AWS EC2 user data script windows
How to pre-deploy App using user data script for Windows OS with powershell powered script in EC2? Example inside. ... more
over 4 years#aws ec2 #cloudberrylab #amazon
EC2 user data script example
Launching AWS EC2 can be supplied by something what is known as "user data" and it helps to have things ready before you access it. ... more
over 4 years#aws ec2 #cloudberrylab #amazon
SMTP server for notifications
AWS SES supports SMTP settings for sending through it-self. This is really helpful if we want to configure personal outbound server. ... more
over 4 years#aws ses #smtp #amazon
How to send SMS using Amazon SNS and Python
Send text messages (SMS) with few lines of Python code using Amazon SNS and boto3 SDK. ... more
over 4 years#python #amazon sns #amazon
AWS EFS Windows
AWS Elastic File System is scalable file system in the cloud, requires NFSv4.1 client and does not support Windows at the moment. However let's see what we can do.. ... more
over 4 years#efs #amazon efs #amazon
How to download random pictures
In CloudBerry Lab we help people to move data offsite to the cloud either with backup or file management solution. Sometimes I need sample files, a lot of sample files. ... more
over 4 years#cloudberrylab #ruby
How to follow the 3-2-1 rule with CloudBerry Backup
In this article you'll learn how to protect your data against hardware and software failures according to the 3-2-1 rule. ... more
over 4 years#backup #cloudberrylab
How to run Rails app with Postgres, Puma and Nginx in docker
Docker opens wide range of options for applications delivery. It is not just deployment tool, but great for testing and development. Even for production ... ... more
over 4 years#rails #docker
Data backup and Disaster recovery with AWS
CloudAcademy webinar: how to use AWS services for Backup and DR challenges. I am presenter! ... more
almost 5 years#backup #cloudacademy #amazon
Grant FullAccess to all Mailboxes in Exchange 2010
Since FullAccess is disabled even for Administrator's account in Exchange (including 2010) CloudBerry Backup for Exchange can't restore using Administrator's username and password pair for item level restore of any mailbox. Let's fix it. ... more
almost 5 years#cloudberrylab #exchange
AWSRus — Russian (St. Petersburg) User Group for AWS
AWSRus — Official AWS User Group Russia (St. Petersburg). ... more
about 5 years#meetup #awsrus #amazon
Parallax snippet
Little snippet for great footer effect. ... more
about 5 years#jquery
SEO friendly AWS static website with SSL
It's been written many times, however there is no consistency how to make static web site with SSL and SEO friendly urls (301 redirect). Pure AWS based services static website ahead, check details inside! ... more
about 5 years#static site #seo #amazon
How to renew Certbot (Let's Encrypt) for Rails app with Capistrano
Let's Encrypt is free SSL certificate. Running rails app it is not obvious how to renew such cert. Here is the user guide. ... more
about 5 years#certbot #capistrano #ssl #rails
How to backup PostgreSQL on Ubuntu to the cloud of your choice?
PostgreSQL is very popular database backend for many Linux deployed / web-based applications. But how to protect? ... more
about 5 years#postgresql #backup
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