AWS

So I sat the AWS DevOps Professional Exam this afternoon. It was a pretty sticky exam and the questions were quite tricky with plenty of ‘blog-post’ length questions followed by four plausible answers. The whole exam lasted 3 hours 10 minutes and I used every minute of the allotted time. I did the exam online using Pearson Vue. Now normally, there’s a struggle to log in to the test and get the exam under way and this time was no exception because I was trying to switch everything off to get more bandwidth....

Clusters used to cost a lot of money. Now however, you can roll your own cluster for a couple of quid. Here’s an intro into how to do that. A cluster is a hub spoke model that uses a head node running a job management piece of software called a scheduler. The scheduler is responsible for taking jobs from users and assigning them to compute nodes. The compute nodes are the machines that do the actual work....

So the last 6 months have seen me learning the course for the AWS Professional Architect Certification. There’s a lot of it. Think of it like a pub quiz with infinite questions. I did the bulk of the course via Cantrill which was my fist ever BTC purchase! and I also did the Stephane Marek course on Udemy as well to cover the ground from another angle. I sat the exam yesterday, Tuesday 26th September 2023 and waited 24 hours and lo and behold, I got it!...

I live in Broadstone, near Poole in Dorset in the UK. I do four things, hopefully reasonably well. They are AWS Ansible Terraform Linux Have a look at the services page for a slightly deeper dive into what I do. Mugshot

OK, I focus on a few things. Ansible AWS Linux Terraform / Terraform Cloud CI/CD Automation with GitHub Actions / Bitbucket Pipelines / CircleCI Grafana and Prometheus My languages of choice are: Python Bash JavaScript Svelte For documentation, I use Markdown technology and Confluence style wiki systems for the ease of use and the distraction free nature of it. AWS I do most aspects of AWS but tend to focus on the core aspects, namely....