cli53

 Posted on March 26, 2012  |  Barnaby Gray

If you’ve used Amazon webservices much at all you’ll probably have come across their DNS service route53. This offers very competitively priced DNS hosting on the Amazon cloud. To install: $ pip install cli53 The first step everyone migrating commonly goes through is getting their existing zones into the system. Invariably these are in the industry-standard bind format, but route53 uses its own format. cli53 assists in offering easy import of bind format zones: [Read More]
dns  route53  cli53  aws 

Hosting a jekyll blog on Amazon S3

 Posted on March 26, 2012  |  Barnaby Gray

** Note: I’ve replaced jekyll with the equally adapt pelican now. ** This article describes how to host your own static blog/site on S3. It revolves around the evolution this site has taken. First off I started using github’s public site feature. Dead neat, nice set of features and so quick to get running. The problem is I’m impatient, and often after pushing an update the “Page build successful” can take upwards of 30 minutes. [Read More]
jekyll  s3 

Introducing s3grep

 Posted on March 25, 2012  |  Barnaby Gray

This is the first in a series of posts introducing some of the tools I’ve developed. The first is s3grep - parallelized grep for Amazon S3. The need for this one arose as one recent project processes and stores on S3 large (text) log files. Often to diagnose problems it’s really handy to check direct in the log files. Whilst some tricks with s3cmd and xargs can get you so far, it’s hard to parallelize and seems trickier than it should be. [Read More]
s3  grep  aws 

projects

 Posted on January 1, 2012  |  Barnaby Gray

cli53 Command line script to administer the Amazon Route 53 DNS service

iboto Amazon EC2 shell for managing multiple accounts and regions easily

elasticsearch* An elasticsearch starcluster plugin

s3grep Parallelized grep for Amazon S3

cloudily Automatically visualize your EC2 infrastructure