[HOWTO] EC2Launch – agent failed to assume identity
Jostein Elvaker HaandeThe other day I stumbled upon a string of similar events logged from some of my Windows EC2 instances in regards to the SSM Agent. It simply refused to start…
[HOWTO] Fix EventLog Invalid Handle and Powershell Invalid Class
After upgrading to Windows Server 2019, both the Event Log and Powershell commands on the servers displayed errors about Invalid Handle and Invalid Class. This is a howto on how…
[HOWTO] No snap-ins have been registered for Windows PowerShell version 5
After upgrading from Windows 2012 R2 to Windows 2019, the SharePoint Management Console failed to load its snap-in. How is here I fixed it.
[HOWTO] apt upgrade fails – dpkg: error processing package grub-common
I have recently seen some cases of apt failing when doing package upgrades. It seems like there is a change in the package grub-common that breaks on some systems but…
[HOWTO] Pretty print AWS encoded authorization failure message
When working with AWS command line tools such as aws or their PowerShell tools, you will from time to time encounter that the error message for the failing command will…
[HOWTO] Fix broken pip/pip3 in Ubuntu – f”ERROR: {exc}”
So the other day I was upgrading some old test instances and setting up some roles using Ansible and the role geerlingguy.pip, and ran into an issue. The issue was…
[HOWTO] Transferring Route53 domains between Amazon AWS accounts
Ever had the need to transfer a registered Route53 domain from one AWS account to the other? Follow this guide to transfer your domains using PowerShell.
[HOWTO] Create list of ISO3166 Language Codes in Debian/Ubuntu
The other day I needed to create a list of ISO3166 language codes in the following format: 'XX','YY','ZZ'. Being lazy, and also a fan of performing a bit of bash…
[HOWTO] Using wildcards with logrotate
Need to rotate your logs for your Linux service(s)? Follow this guide to use logrotate to keep control over your logs.
[HOWTO] Tag EC2 instances based on platform type
Recently I had the need to tag all our EC2 instances based on the platform, as I wanted to create resource groups based on the actual underlying platform used for…