- Via Alpina, Switzerland Adventure Runs
02 Jul 2023
This run will traverse the country of Switzerland from starting from Vaduz (Liechtenstein) and finish in Montreux.
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- Self-Hosted Github Action Runners with EKS
20 May 2023
Self hosting Github action runners in EKS with SPOT instances and autoscale.
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- Preview page deployment with Github-Actions and Cloudfront
08 Mar 2023
Setting up preview page thru sub-domains using Cloudfront function, APIGateway, CI/CD, and S3 bucket.
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- Terraform and AWS Managed Grafana Cross Account Setup
11 Feb 2023
Setup AWS managed Grafana with cross account Cloudwatch and X-Ray service access.
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- Terraform and AWS Tranfer Family w/ Lambda + Secrets Manager
01 Oct 2022
Setting up a SFTP with Lambda and Secrets Manager with S3 bucket as backend.
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- Swiss Alps Adventure Runs
27 May 2022
This will be a 2 weeks of solo running in the Alps, covering the Bern, Valais, Ticino, Appenzell, Schwyz, Basel regions.
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- Terraform and AWS DataSync between Accounts
27 Mar 2022
Migrating S3 data between accounts using DataSync with Terraform.
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- Terraform and Github Actions without AWS Credentials
24 Feb 2022
Github Actions without AWS credentials via OpenID Connect with terraform.
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- Terraform and Bastion on AWS ECS Fargate
20 Dec 2021
Setting up a bastion instance in AWS ECS Fargate with terraform.
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- Terraform and AWS ECS Execute Command on Fargate
20 Dec 2021
Setting up AWS ECS Execute Command for Fargate with terraform.
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- Blue Green Deployment with Github Actions
10 Mar 2021
Setup Blue/Green deployment using Github and AWS Route53 weighted DNS.
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- AWS Client VPN Endpoint with Terraform
17 Aug 2020
Setup AWS Client VPN Endpoint with Terraform and automating user/certificate management.
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- Parameter Store and EFS access in EKS
15 Apr 2020
Accessing Parameter Store key/value secrets and EFS from EKS pods.
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- EKS Group Access using AWS IAM
05 Dec 2019
Managing group access on EKS using AWS IAM via Terraform.
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- Running Adventures in the Colorado Rockies
19 Sep 2019
Another vacation spent trail running. This time; the Colorado rocky mountains!!!
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- Travel Packing List
06 Sep 2019
Here are the list of things I pack when I travel. The essential items and the optional depending on purpose and location.
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- Tour du Mont Blanc Adventure Run
03 Sep 2019
This will be a self-guide to run the Tour du Mont Blanc in the Alps from France to Italy, to Switzerland and back to France.
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- Timberline Trail Loop on Mt Hood
17 Aug 2019
Full day of circumnavigating around Mt Hood via the Timberline Trail.
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- Mt Whitney
28 Jul 2019
Trying to make Mt Whitney summit an annual event.
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- Zion Traverse
17 May 2019
6 days of Utah adventure running trip including Zion Traverse in the middle.
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- Tour de Peninsula - 50mi • 30mi • 20mi • 15mi
01 Apr 2019
This is a fun run from Belmont to Cupertino, CA with various distances in between.
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- Terraform State File Locking with S3 and DynamoDB
01 Nov 2018
Setting up Terraform state file locking with S3 and DynamoDB to prevent corruption.
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- Terraform and AWS ECS Autoscale
25 Jun 2018
Setting up autoscale in AWS ECS with terraform to handle traffic loads accordingly.
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- Jack of all trades, master of none!
30 Mar 2018
For some reason, I've acquired a lot of random talents over the years. They are great party tricks as well!
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- Cross Training and Full Body Workout
21 Mar 2018
My full-body and semi effective cross-training program.
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- Terraform and AWS EFS
13 Mar 2018
We needed shared filesystem on our ECS cluster, so I decided to implement AWS EFS along with our EBS partition.
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- Solving the Rubik's Cube in one day!
16 Feb 2018
For my next trick, I've decided to solve the Rubik's Cube!
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- Terraform and PagerDuty
04 Feb 2018
I was bored, so I decided to migrate our PagerDuty resources into Terraform.
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- SRE/DevOps Interview Questions
25 Jan 2018
I have written few SRE/DevOps interview questions which any competent ops should be able to solve easily ...
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- Strava-Lululemon 40K/80K Challenge Hack
02 Jan 2018
I came up with this hack for the strava-lululemon-40-80-challange.
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- New Year's Day 3-Peaks
01 Jan 2018
I decided to run the 3-Peaks in the bay area on New Year's Day.
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- AWS Parameter Store
27 Dec 2017
Setting up AWS Parameter Store for ECS/EC2 with Terraform resources.
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- Banff and Glacier National Park Running
20 Sep 2017
9 consecutive days of trail running in the Rocky Mountains.
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- Infrastructure as Code Presentation
12 May 2017
My presentation of Infrastructure as Code at work.
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- Operations Documentation Layout
16 Mar 2017
Operations team should document all procedures and runbooks in Git instead of confluence/google doc/etc.
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- Terraform: No Mercy!
13 Dec 2016
Terraform is a powerful tool for setting up an infrastructure, BUT it can be dangerous as well.
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- Chef Environment Setup from Scratch
17 Oct 2016
Setup Chef Environment from a newly provisioned Max OSX.
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- Linux journey from the beginning
01 Mar 2000
How I started the Linux journey.
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