James Carlos jamescarlos

Configuring AWS ECS to have access to AWS EFS

If you would like to persist data from your ECS containers, i.e. hosting databases like MySQL or MongoDB with Docker, you need to ensure that you can mount the data directory of the database in the container to volume that's not going to dissappear when your container or worse yet, the EC2 instance that hosts your containers, is restarted or scaled up or down for any reason.

Don't know how to create your own AWS ECS Cluster? Go here!

New Cluster

Sadly the EC2 provisioning process doesn't allow you to configure EFS during the initial config. After your create your cluster, follow the guide below.

New Task Definition for Web App

If you're using an Alpine-based Node server like duluca/minimal-node-web-server follow this guide:

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Use ffmpeg to stream video from a dahua 4300s to a file or files

You can use ffmpeg to directly pull frames off of a dahua 4300s at full resolution. May be a good alternative to pricey dvrs which likely cannot record at full resolution, may not work with the camera, or are prohibitevly expensive

Simple Stream to file

Simple stream to file. Full resolution

ffmpeg -loglevel debug -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/live" \

-c copy -map 0 foo.mp4

Requirements

no upfront installation/agents on remote/slave machines - ssh should be enough
application components should use third-party software, e.g. HDFS, Spark's cluster, deployed separately
configuration templating
environment requires/asserts, i.e. we need a JVM in a given version before doing deployment
deployment process run from Jenkins

Solution

Bye, bye Vagrant

Setting up a small footprint development-environment with boot2docker and docker-compose

The idea of providing a dedicated, encapsulated development environment with is basically the same for all of your teams' members has been around for a while. For quite some time Vagrant seemed to be the state-of-the-art solution for such needs. In combination with puppet for example one could easily set up a fully working VM with all dependencies installed and set up. But Vagrant is kind of an monstrosity. There are so many things that could possibly go wrong while provisioning a Vagrant machine. Also, if you happen to have a lot of projects using Vagrant the VMs are probably using a lot of your precious SSDs disk space. The small containerized images build with Docker seemed to be an interesting alternative, but rather hard to maintain in the past.

Fear no more! docker-compose has you covered. But there a

	<?php

	namespace Src\Csv;

	use Illuminate\Http\Response;
	use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\StreamedResponse;

	/**
	* Class DownloadLargeCsv
	*

	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	#
	# Automated IMDB Top 250 Plex library script by /u/SwiftPanda16
	#
	# * Use at your own risk! *
	# * I am not responsible for damages to your Plex server or libraries. *
	#
	#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	# import config.
	# You can change the default config with `make cnf="config_special.env" build`
	cnf ?= config.env
	include $(cnf)
	export $(shell sed 's/=.*//' $(cnf))

	# import deploy config
	# You can change the default deploy config with `make cnf="deploy_special.env" release`
	dpl ?= deploy.env
	include $(dpl)

	###
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	#!/bin/bash
	# A bash script to setup GIT like deployment on your server
	echo "Enter your server address e.g 25.32.132.1 or yourserver.com"
	read serverAddress
	echo "Enter Username which you use to login to your server e.g ubuntu"
	read username
	echo "Enter path of the private key (optional)"
	read privateKeyPath
	echo "Path of your server directory where code should reside: e.g ~/code or /var/www (required)"
	read tempPath