Reviews

Amazon EC2 Mac Instances Something cool and powerful with inevitable trade-offs. As everything in this world. AWS announced EC2 macOS-based instances on the 30th of November 2020, and after more than a month of tests, I would like to share some findings and impressions about it. First of all, the things you can easily find, but it’s still worth to say: The new instance family is called mac1.metal. Guess we should expect mac2 or mac3; otherwise, why did they put a number in the name?...

A simple but cool announcement from AWS — AWS CloudShell. A tool for ad-hoc AWS management via CLI directly in your browser. I like when AWS releases something simple to understand and yet powerful. So it is not another DevOps Guru, believe me :) Yes, this is similar to the shells that GCE and Azure have. No, you can’t access your instances from it, so it’s not a jump server (bastion host)....

Although Github Actions service is generally available since November 13, 2020, and there are about 243,000,000 results for “github actions” in Google search already, I have just reached it… It’s half past midnight, it took me about 35 commits to make my first github automation work, but it finally works and this blog post was built and published automatically! Actions everywhere One of the most (or maybe the most one) powerful things in Actions is … Actions!...