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GitHub Actions OIDC Changes

August 4, 2026Jason Paul

Introduction If you’re familiar with using OpenID Connect (OIDC) to authenticate GitHub Actions to your cloud provider (AWS, GCP, etc), you’ll know that this is a more secure way to…Continue readingGitHub Actions OIDC Changes

AMD x Hackster – Pervasive AI Developer Contest

August 6, 2024Jason Paul

TL;DR If you’re interested in testing out locally hosted AI/LLM features, this article goes through a number of tools that can let you do that. This article also goes through…Continue readingAMD x Hackster – Pervasive AI Developer Contest

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After 12 Years – New Desktop Workstation!

April 8, 2024April 8, 2024Jason Paul

Background I built my previous PC back in 2012. I had used a number of old laptops and a Pentium 4 machine for a while, while mostly gaming on PS3,…Continue readingAfter 12 Years – New Desktop Workstation!

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Diving Deeper – Gitpod Cloud Development Environment

February 21, 2023February 23, 2023Jason Paul

Introduction As part of the Free AWS Cloud Project Bootcamp, we are using Gitpod as our Cloud Developer Environment (CDE). This has a number of advantages such as ensuring we…Continue readingDiving Deeper – Gitpod Cloud Development Environment

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LinuxTek 2022 Retrospective

January 1, 2023Jason Paul

Introduction I started this blog back in September 2020 when I set up some Minecraft servers on Google Cloud Platform for some online friends to play on. It turned into…Continue readingLinuxTek 2022 Retrospective

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Terraform Associate Certification – Resources and Recommendations

October 29, 2022October 29, 2022Jason Paul

Introduction On Friday, I sat for the Hashicorp certification exam for Terraform Associate (002). I spent most of the week brushing up on the exam topics, and passed on my…Continue readingTerraform Associate Certification – Resources and Recommendations

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Serverless Malware URL Checking Application

July 18, 2022March 13, 2023Jason Paul

Quick Link – Github Project Introduction One of the recent challenges I took on was to build a URL lookup service. The tech challenge was stated as follows: URL lookup…Continue readingServerless Malware URL Checking Application

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Accessing PostgreSQL databases using the PSQL interactive terminal

July 10, 2022July 11, 2022Jason Paul

Introduction Recently, I’ve been running a lot of one-off queries for other teams who need access to data from production PostgreSQL databases hosted in Amazon RDS. I would do this…Continue readingAccessing PostgreSQL databases using the PSQL interactive terminal

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Spinning up a local environment using Vagrant

July 10, 2022July 10, 2022Jason Paul

Quick Link – Github Project Introduction In this post, I described steps for setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine using Virtualbox, to connect to with Visual Studio Code. This allows…Continue readingSpinning up a local environment using Vagrant

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Using Virtual Environments with Python

June 13, 2022November 9, 2022Jason Paul

Introduction During some work with Lambda functions in AWS, I needed to set up a virtual environment in Python to be able to ensure the code I was using had…Continue readingUsing Virtual Environments with Python

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Validating Terraform Resources Using Preconditions

May 28, 2022May 30, 2022Jason Paul

Introduction During a project I was working on this weekend, one of the tasks was to validate a variable by comparing it to another variable, and ensuring the number of…Continue readingValidating Terraform Resources Using Preconditions

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Encryption and Decryption using AWS Key Management Service

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022Jason Paul

Introduction Recently, I was working on getting a Terraform module set up to create resources to ingest AWS CloudWatch logs for Splunk. The process of preparing the HEC token used…Continue readingEncryption and Decryption using AWS Key Management Service

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PLEX Media Server and Bash commands for file organizing

April 9, 2022April 28, 2022Jason Paul

Introduction This weekend, I set up a PLEX Media Server to be able to share my legally acquired Linux ISO Collection to some friends and family. It would also let…Continue readingPLEX Media Server and Bash commands for file organizing

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Lessons Learned – Minecraft , Ansible, Crashes, Debugging

April 3, 2022April 28, 2022Jason Paul

Quick Link – Github Project Repo Introduction Valhelsia Enhanced Vanilla maintenance update 1.1.2 has been released with a number of fixes and changes. We’ve been experiencing frequent crashes on the…Continue readingLessons Learned – Minecraft , Ansible, Crashes, Debugging

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Minecraft Server Ansible Code Refactor Update

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022Jason Paul

Quick Link – Github Project Code Updates From my previous blog post Build A Fully Functional Minecraft Server In Less Than 10 Minutes With Ansible, I received a large amount…Continue readingMinecraft Server Ansible Code Refactor Update

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Build a fully functional Minecraft server in less than 10 minutes with Ansible

January 30, 2022February 10, 2022Jason Paul

Quick Link – Github Project Update – 02/10/2022 Since this post, I’ve done some major refactoring to the code base. More details in this blog post. Some of the steps…Continue readingBuild a fully functional Minecraft server in less than 10 minutes with Ansible

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Building a Virtual Machine on vSphere using Hashicorp Terraform

January 25, 2022January 28, 2022Jason Paul

Quick Link – Github Project Introduction When working with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, to create a new virtual machine, this is typically done through the…Continue readingBuilding a Virtual Machine on vSphere using Hashicorp Terraform

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Building an Ubuntu 21.10 vSphere template using Hashicorp Packer

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022Jason Paul

Quick Link – Github Project Introduction When deploying new VMs on a public cloud platform such as AWS or GCP, the base OS is typically available as a pre-built image,…Continue readingBuilding an Ubuntu 21.10 vSphere template using Hashicorp Packer

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Building a Kubernetes Cluster on VMware vSphere using Infrastructure as Code

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022Jason Paul

As part of my professional development, I want to become more familiar with Kubernetes. I’ve used Docker for a while in a minimal fashion in my homelab, but only recently…Continue readingBuilding a Kubernetes Cluster on VMware vSphere using Infrastructure as Code

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Setting up a Linux environment with VirtualBox and Visual Studio Code

November 25, 2021November 25, 2021Jason Paul

Introduction Recently, I’ve been doing more of my coding in Visual Studio Code, rather than using vim in a terminal. I found it tedious having to switch between multiple terminal…Continue readingSetting up a Linux environment with VirtualBox and Visual Studio Code

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