Hello
I enjoy drinking coffee and a good glass of whiskey. I currently work at Rackspace as an AWS Cloud Engineer II.
Certificates:
AWS Solutions Architect - AWS certificate
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - CKAD certificate
My site is now deployed with AWS CI/CD
Posted on April 21, 2020
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| Rudy Rodriguez
This is a test post of my new deployment. I have implemented AWS CodeCommit for storing the site files and to utilize source control. CodeBuild to build out the Hugo files and publishing to S3. Then having CodePipeline to trigger the build, when it detects a change from CodeCommit.
Update 1: After messing around with the buuildspec.yml file, I was able to get CodeBuild and CodePipeline to complete a build successfully.
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What Does DevOps Mean
Posted on November 14, 2019
| 1 minutes
| Rudy Rodriguez
Ask different people and you will get a different answer. For me it’s a cultural philosophy. It’s working along with the development and operations teams with a shared goal in mind. That goal being to deliver a faster and more reliable product/features to customers. This is achieved with automation and tooling.
Rackspace AWS Cloud Engineer
Posted on October 10, 2018
| 1 minutes
| Rudy Rodriguez
I’m now officially part of the Rackspace team. I’ll be working there as an AWS Cloud Engineer. I’m excited to pursue my passion in working with AWS and working at Rackspace.
Python DNS Lookup
Posted on September 10, 2018
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| Rudy Rodriguez
For work, I need to do a lot of DNS lookups. I would normally run the dig command. But it would be quicker if I could get all in one glance in terminal. So, I created a python script to do DNS lookups. I created it do to the main records I normally look up for a website, A, MX, mail A, NS and TXT records. This is built using the dnspython library.
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Ansible With AWS
Posted on July 20, 2018
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| Rudy Rodriguez
I completed the Ansible and Amazon Web Services course on Linux Academy.
Here is the link for my Ansible Certificate - Certificate
About Ansible:
It uses ‘playbooks’ to deploy, manage, build, test and configure anything from full server environments to websites to custom compiled source code for applications.
It brings together aspects of environment management that have been traditionally separate and managed independently.
With Ansible, you can control server deployment configuration, making everything consistent.
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My Site Is Now Serverless
Posted on June 15, 2018
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| Rudy Rodriguez
This site is being rendered by Hugo (https://gohugo.io). Which is a static site generator. I’m now using AWS S3 to serve this site. I’m also using CloudFront with SSL for the CDN and Route 53 for DNS management.
CloudFormation
Posted on May 21, 2018
| 1 minutes
| Rudy Rodriguez
I’ve been going over CloudFormation. Some of the benefits are:
Allows you to create and provision resources in a reusable template fashion Turns your resources into stacks that work as units Allows you to source control your infrastructure Below are a some templates that I tested on.
A VPC with an EC2 instance:
Description: VPC Resources: myVPC: Type: AWS::EC2::VPC Properties: CidrBlock: 10.0.0.0/16 EnableDnsSupport: 'true' EnableDnsHostnames: 'true' InstanceTenancy: dedicated Tags: - Key: Network Value: Public mySubnet: Type: AWS::EC2::Subnet Properties: VpcId: Ref: myVPC CidrBlock: 10.
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Passed the AWS Solutions Architect Exam
Posted on May 7, 2018
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| Rudy Rodriguez
Today I officially passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. I’m excited that I’m now certified in AWS. I will continue to build off this, by learning additional tools.
Here is the link for my AWS certificate
Finished Mastering the Linux Command Line Course
Posted on July 29, 2017
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| Rudy Rodriguez
I’m doing all my training from linuxacademy.com. Mainly because I get a free subscription from work. I had already gone through the bulk of Linux Essentials. So this past week, I finished the course, Master The Linux Command Line. I learned some cool command line tips. Some notable commands were: find, grep, sed, and tee commands.
Created My First Custom Alexa Skill
Posted on July 18, 2017
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| Rudy Rodriguez
The first skill I created was a fact skill. When I ask my Alexa to open, my daughters name. It will verbally give out a random fact about my daughter, who is currently 4 years old. She was amazed that the Echo knew things about her.
Using the Lambda service. I was able to modify the existing Alexa skill blueprint. Allowing me to create a custom Alexa skill. Since, this was my first time creating a skill.
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