GameBall Settings Guide

    This post is just a complete list of settings for the GameBall trackball. For people (including myself) that don’t always have the settings handy or from memory (lol, yeah right).

    All of this can be found elsewhere.

    Mar 22, 2023 · Filed in: Trackball
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    Azure Active Directory (AD), Explained

    Azure Active Directory (AD) has been handling our identity requests since 2013, and is one of the most widely used cloud-based identity and access management services, with millions of users and thousands of organizations using it to manage access to their cloud-based applications and services. Azure AD has processed billions of authentications and millions of transactions daily, demonstrating its scalability and reliability.

    And yet, there is a lot of confusion with Azure AD.

    With everything moving to the cloud, Microsoft needed a way to authorize and authenticate users to cloud resources, including their own offerings like Microsoft 365 (Office 365). Microsoft made Azure AD, which is both an authorization and authentication provider.

    Mar 5, 2023 · Filed in: Active Directory, Azure AD, Windows Server
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    Checking for Lint in your CloudFormation Templates

    If you are like me, you want your templates to pass muster and therefore usually pass them through some type of verification tool beyond the human eye, which is a poor verification tool by the way. Especially without caffiene.

    As much as I love hunting config files for missing comas and quotation marks, or an out of alignment issue. I would rather spend the time thinking about the content of the template, rather the formatting.

    VS Code Extension

    So have I ventured to find a few solutions to make the hunt easier.

    Apr 18, 2021 · Filed in: AWS, CloudFormation, DevOps
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    Terraform Container NAS

    Terraform

    Following up from my recent post on a NAS device I had built and used for Linux containers, I had built using a Synology NAS. I have since added more memory to the device, maxing out the memory that the vendor supported 16GB. I have seen unsupported configuration with 20GB on the internet, I have not ventured into this area yet.

    I have also migrated what resources and containers I had in Docker to be managed by Terraform, HashiCorp’s Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. Which was a lot of re-creating of what I already had created, Docker volumes, images, and containers.

    I backed up current volume data to restore. Grafana and InfluxDB. Now all Docker resources are done through Terraform configuration and kept in source repository.

    Apr 10, 2021 · Filed in: Terraform, Docker, Linux, Storage
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