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VMware OneLiners and Cheat Sheet

These cheat sheets are to be used on the VMware platform. Some VMware oneliners require PowerCLI; others can be run directly on the Photon OS on your ESX host. Do you like OneLiners? Me too. Check out our featured one-liners for: PowerShell OneLiners Active Directory Oneliners Restart VMWare Management Services...

Transitioning from Datastore to Firestore

Google Cloud Datastore has long been a reliable database platform, accessible directly from applications through API calls. However, Google is gradually phasing out Cloud Datastore in favor of its next-generation counterpart, Google Cloud Firestore. This article aims to guide you through each service’s key differences, advantages, and limitations to help...

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Update (Rotate) RDS SSL Certificates

SSL/TLS Certificate Rotation Guide for Amazon RDS Amazon RDS CA certificates rds-ca-2019 are expiring soon. To maintain secure connections, switch to new CA certificates: rds-ca-rsa2048-g1, rds-ca-rsa4096-g1, or rds-ca-ecc384-g1. This guide outlines the steps to update your clients or applications and RDS certificates. Amazon RDS provides the following CAs to sign...

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Configure RDS Alerts Event Subscription AWS

This procedure will walk through how to Configure RDS Alerts in AWS using Event Subscriptions. Setting up event notifications in Amazon RDS using Amazon SNS topics, streaming data to Amazon Kinesis, and then forwarding those notifications to Slack. To Configure RDS Alerts requires a multi-step process. Here’s a detailed step-by-step...

Update WordPress plugins via CLI.

Here is a detailed step-by-step procedure to Update WordPress Plugins via the WP CLI on your WordPress instance: Step 1: Preparing for the Update 1.1 Understanding the Update Process Understand that updates are performed via the WP CLI to prevent errors that might occur due to request timeouts or firewall...

SSH AWS ECS Container

SSH AWS ECS Container: How to SSH onto an ECS Instance Connections to an ECS container are done using AWS ECS Execute. SSH AWS ECS Container provides a secure alternative to SSH, which works using IAM functionality from AWS. Before you begin, you must ensure that: Here is a detailed...

Azure AD to Entra Verified ID?

Microsoft has done it again; first, they renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365, and now they have renamed Azure AD to Entra Verified ID. Hey there, identity management enthusiasts!👋 Guess what? Microsoft just sprinkled some rebranding magic on our beloved Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)! Say hello to its new...

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Oracle Unattended Installation: Oracle 19c Client

Yes, you can install Oracle 19c Client using the Oracle unattended install. Perfect for when you are writing the installing in code. This example includes details of how to install Oracle 19c Client using the unattended install config file on a CIS Hardened image of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8....

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AWS-CDK App Hierarchy and Key Concepts

1. AWS CDK App Definition: AWS-CDK App hierarchy is the starting point for defining cloud resources using AWS CDK. This application is a project written in one of the supported languages, such as TypeScript or Python, and uses the AWS CDK library to describe the desired AWS infrastructure. Example: Let’s...