Cloud

The amazon-ec2-utils package in Fedora makes it a bit easier to find devices in an AWS EC2 instance. ️🌤️

Fedora’s cloud-init package now uses dhcpcd in place of dhclient, which went end of life in 2022. 💀

Moving to cloud is about much more than just capital efficiency. It enables your teams to do more if they’re willing to adopt some new practices.

Fedora now has the AWS Elastic File Store (EFS) mount helper available for Fedora 38 and newer releases! It chooses optimized NFS mount options for you and makes mounting and unmounting a breeze.

CoreOS provides a fast track to running containers with a light weight immutable OS underneath. This doesn’t mean that you can’t keep it around as a pet instance. 🐕

Add a Fedora x86_64 or aarch64 image to Oracle Cloud and launch an instance. 🚀

Nobody likes a surprise bill. Learn some ways to keep your AWS bill under control and avoid that end of the month panic. 😱

New experiences bring joy! After working with fun AWS CloudFront hacks at work this week, I decided to migrate this blog to AWS S3 and CloudFront. ⛅

Avoid cloud provider modifications and deploy a genuine release version of Fedora 37 on Hetzner Cloud. ⛅

Tailscale exit nodes allow you to route your traffic through nearly any system in your tailnet. Learn how to build an exit node using firewalld. 🕳️

Learn how to customize a CentOS Stream 9 cloud image with the stuff you want and nothing that you don’t. 📦

Want to build your own Fedora 35 image for AWS? Use Image Builder to build and deploy an image made just for you. 🏗

Provision services on Microsoft’s Azure CLI on Fedora 35. 💙

Launch your containers on Fedora CoreOS instances in Hetzner cloud with a few workarounds. 🚀

Build images for AWS and deploy them to your AWS account all within GitHub Actions. 🤖

Build a customized image for AWS with Image Builder and use the built-in automatic uploader and importer.

Fedora 30 is a great Linux distribution for cloud platforms, but it needs a little work to perform well on Google Compute Engine.

Walt Disney said it best:

NOTE: The opinions shared in this post are mine alone and are not related to my employer in any way.

I was shocked to see Robyn Bergeron’s email today about Seth Vidal’s passing.

My work at Rackspace has changed a bit in the last few weeks and I’ve shifted from managing a team of engineers to a full technical focus on OpenStack Nova.

If you haven’t noticed already, full Xen dom0 support was added in the Linux 3.

Diagram: OpenVPN to Rackspace Cloud Servers and Slicehost

Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: The following post contains only my personal opinions.

Regardless of the type of hosting you’re using - dedicated or cloud - it’s important to take network interface security seriously.