I have been working on AWS for the past 9 years. I have multiple certifications in the field and I really enjoy working on that platform. When I try to use Azure or Google Cloud Computing, I have a hard time motivating myself to do work on them.

So this will be my new blog where I will be blogging about IT, books and of course AWS. I will hopefully blog frequently.

Corona virus is upon us here in Denmark. Stores except supermarkets, workplaces, schools and other educational places are all closed. We have been asked to work from home and that means having more meetings over video conferencing.

For the past several years I’ve had a hard time playing new games. I find them really boring because I feel like I’m playing a movie. There are long cutscenes, you have to follow a specific path and everything is sort of scheduled. I don’t like that. So I decided a couple of days ago to start playing Star Wars Galaxies again. Its a sandbox MMO from 2003. It was shut down in 2008 because of lack of subscribers.

I really love AWS Parameter Store. It’s a services where you can save encrypted data such as keys and password.

Yesterday I did a small task updating our Saltmaster configuration using Github webhooks, API Gateway, AWS Lambda and AWS SSM. When someone pushed to the Git repo master branch, a webhook sends the information to API Gateway which triggers an AWS Lambda function. The function sends an AWS SSM Run Command to the Saltmaster which then runs a bash script updating from Github. Boom… and the Saltmaster is updated and restarted. So I made it work and I’m done :) So this is actually a random update… just a small thingy.