The Chicken Coop (Page 9)

Shut the back door - Locking an AWS ALB to CloudFront

21 Nov 2019 5 min read

A common way to use AWS CloudFront is to use it as the front end for an Application Load Balancer. You would normally set it up as so: Person talks to CloudFront talks

Using AWS WAF for IP restricting a CloudFront distribution

19 Nov 2019 4 min read

AWS CloudFront [https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/] is an extremely powerful service, which gives you a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) with over 100 points of presence, as well as robust DDOS protection

Cross-Account CodePipeline Deployments

02 Jul 2019 5 min read

It’s becoming more common to split build and deployment infrastructure into distinct entities, and the account boundary in AWS is a good line to split things. Some of the tools don’t

Posting from the iPad - using Bear (well, maybe)

14 May 2019 1 min read

I've been using Bear [https://bear.app/] for writing and note taking for a while. It's a Markdown editor, but it also syncs nicely (iCloud) between my Macs, iPhone

West Coast Wandering. (2019)

26 Apr 2019 8 min read

Getting there As is often the case, getting there is half the fun. Or half the un-fun in this case. Before we even left - about 4 weeks before - a huge storm