Automation | Ben Piper — Cloud & Networking Expert, Author, Instructor

Using Grep Recursive and Regex to Search Big Data Sets

Nov 23, 2022 linux security scripting automation 2022

How do you find a needle in a haystack?

Suppose you have a big data set consisting of various types of data including phone numbers, email addresses, user identifiers, addresses, etc. Within this dataset you need to pick out specific strings. Normally this would be easy:

grep -air -e mystring -e anotherstring and …

Operational Excellence Means Automation

Apr 2, 2019 automation aws cloudformation devops infrastructure-as-code operational-excellence 2019

People use the term “operational excellence” in a lot of different ways. In its vaguest sense, it means continuous improvement as applied to operations. But you’re interested in what it means in the context of technology operations. And I’m here to tell you that it means automation.

Operational Excellence is one of the …

Using AWS Systems Manager to Upgrade WordPress

Mar 19, 2019 automation aws devops wordpress 2019

After years of manually upgrading my self-hosted WordPress installation, I decided it was finally time to apply some devops principles (namely automation) to this process.

I decided to use AWS Systems Manager (aka SSM). I started out by creating the following Command Document (which happens to be in YAML format because …