AWS::EC2 how to enable custom metrics

Due to shared responsibility and compliance AWS cannot look beyond the hypervisor, so AWS cannot monitor things like memory usage or disk usage. To enable these metrics, you must tweak the OS a bit. The best reference i found is here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/mon-scripts.html Here’s the…

wordpress and let’s encrypt

Here’s how to install Let’s Encrypt for SSL-certificates on Ubuntu1804 assuming you have apache (lamp) and wordpress running already and you own the domain you are using, of course. add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot apt install python-certbot-apache certbot –apache -d berndkuhlen.de -d www.berndkuhlen.de certbot renew –dry-run make…

Sat my AWS SysOps Admin exam, April 10th 2019

Happy to have passed my AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam. There is a blueprint for requisites to pass the exam, i would say you need some months experience and about 8 weeks of (determined) preparation. Surprising fact for me was that there was…