Ensure continuous compliance via pipeline AWS Rule Development Kit (RDK) supports Compliance as Code workflow to to allow you build and local test config rule from your workstation, deploy it to dev environment and promote it to production. In this article, I will walk through to deploy it to AWS…

Centralize your cloudwatch metrics, alarms and dashboards Introduction Since introduction of Cross-account Cross-region Cloudwatch data sharing, AWS has recently introduced Cross-Account Alarms. AWS also provides ability to allow Delegated/Authorized access to AWS Organization to member accounts to access account list in tree view. With the above features, AWS now allows operations…

Build resource similar to AWS Provided Resource in Cloudformation Why do we need AWS resource type AWS Introduced custom resource type that allowed us to create third party resources in the cloudformation. Although it served us well, the management of the custom resources were difficult — lambda code is either written in-line or shared from s3 bucket…

Launch GUI App from WSL Overview I wanted to run an login app (aws-azure-login) from WSL which display GUI, but it could not run showing the following error — Unable to Open X-Display Since WSL distro does not come with GUI, we need to install a X-Server on our Windows Host…

Manually install wsl2 when locked in Microsoft Store Introduction Microsoft offers running Linux in Windows using technology was WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The new version of wsl which is called wsl2 allow to run a Microsoft customized Linux Kernel with distro of your choice. …

How to automatically change to default shell Visual Studio Code a.k.a VSCode, allows local and remote development. I am a Windows 10 user but I love developing in Linux using WSL. When I changed to use WSL for my remote development, it was not switching shell automatically to bash. After digging more, I have found %userprofile%/AppData/Roming/Code/User/settings.josn file which I modified like below. So when I connect to WSL/SSH Remote, bash is set automatically as default shell and powershell in Windows.

A Getting Started Guide Overview Cluster API is beautiful Kubernetes project which allows provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters using declarative APIs. Kind is another beautiful project to build Kubernetes cluster on docker. Both of the above projects are blessings for someone like me who wants to build cluster dynamically…

Plan, Design and Migrate from your existing Organization Overview With introduction of AWS Control Tower to provision and manage multi- account AWS Environment, AWS has made it simpler to crate new AWS account and thus eliminating the need to manage AWS provided complex landing zone or any home grown solution. AWS…

Kubernetes version 1.16 and higher are removing deprecated API Overview As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old API is deprecated and eventually removed. To have deal with that situation, we need to have continuous plan to detect and fix the issue. In…