Feb 17AWS Service Quotas: Discovering Where you StandWe’ve written a few posts in the last week about AWS Service Quotas. These are restrictions on services that are set by AWS (but can often be increased). If our first post, we looked at New Actions in unSkript that can be used to determine quota values and request a…5 min read5 min read
Feb 14AWS Service Quotas: What are they, and how can I increase them?Everywhere we go, there are limits — speed limits, weight limits, capacity limits. AWS is no different. For many of the services offered by AWS, there is a service quota limit — the maximum number of that feature each account holder is allowed to use. Can we determine the limits imposed by AWS? Yes, the AWS service-quotas API…3 min read3 min read
Published in unSkript·Jan 25Security Checkup: Force AWS Load Balancers to redirect to HTTPSWhen on a hike — you always want to take the most secure path, and not risk taking an unsafe route. …4 min read4 min read
Published in unSkript·Jan 24Copying AWS Amazon Machine Images Across Regions with unSkriptWhen you are building a distributed platform, You’ll need to regularly update the machines that you have deployed around the world. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), one way to do this is to deploy the updated machine in one region, and create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of that server…3 min read3 min read
Published in unSkript·Jan 19Building a Healthcheck RunBook: Analysis of K8s LogsThere’s nothing worse than an outage. Every outage has a cost — both in revenue, sales, but also reputation and perceived reliability. No one wants their company to appear in the news as having a DevOps issue that cratered their service. Building RunBooks to perform regular health checks on your…6 min read6 min read
Jan 5Extending unSkript Actions: Quick Customizations of ‘Off the Shelf’ CodeunSkript has hundreds of built-in Actions that allow you to quickly build integrated Runbooks with popular Cloud providers, databases, and more. But sometimes, the supplied Actions are not exactly what you are looking for. Luckily, since each Action is written in Python, it is easy to extend and customize any…5 min read5 min read
Published in unSkript·Dec 20, 2022Will AI replace us? Using ChatGPT to create Python Actions for unSkriptOver the last few weeks, ChatGPT has been the buzz of the development world. One of the biggest questions that has been asked is “Is the AI coming to replace developers?” Will a fleet of Daleks come after us shouting “exterminate?” Or will AI code generators just become another tool…7 min read7 min read
Published in unSkript·Dec 15, 2022Managing your Cloud Costs with CloudOps Automation Part 1: Identifying Your Resources with TagsMoving systems to the cloud makes a lot of sense operationally — letting the experts take care of the infrastructure, and let us build what we need to make our company successful. But this comes at a substantial downside — your monthly cloud bill. Cloud providers have made it insanely…5 min read5 min read
Published in unSkript·Dec 5, 2022A Cloud Ops Auto Remediation: A Holiday AllegoryAuto remediations are tools that respond to events with automations able to fix, or remediate, the underlying condition. Building a demo that features auto remediation fix is hard, because generally modern infrastructure is resilient so keeping it in an error state is difficult. …Remediation6 min readRemediation6 min read
Published in unSkript·Dec 1, 2022Automating the AWS Identity Lifecycle with unSkript (Part 3)This week, AWS is celebrating all that is AWS at their re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Here at unSkript, we are celebrating all that is AWS by highlighting how to automate common AWS tasks with our xRunBooks. In our first two posts in this series (Part 1 and Part 2)…5 min read5 min read
