Managing Permission Set Assignments by Organizational Unit in AWS Single-Sign-On / IAM identity Centre with Terraform
This article demonstrates how to use Terraform features new in February 2023 to comprehensively manage permission set assignments in AWS Single-Sign-On / IAM identity Centre across accounts and by Organizational Unit.…
Read more →Testing a Golang Application Written with Artificial Intelligence
Recently I wrote about writing a Golang application with a conversational Artificial Intelligence service - ChatGPT. This is a follow on article about trying to use a similar approach for testing. I am not presuming a…
Read more →Coding a Golang Application with Artificial Intelligence
A new conversational Artificial Intelligence service - ChatGPT - has been making waves this week. I tried using it for a small coding project and was impressed. I think it has some profound implications for the software…
Read more →Moving my website from WordPress to Hugo
I originally set up a portfolio website back in 2016. At the time I was still chasing for Linux Sysadmin and as part of my studies/preparation I had been setting up LAMP/LEMP stacks, on bare metal, in VM's, even on AWS…
Read more →When Amazon Web Services overtakes one of your custom features
This post is also published on Medium It’s kind of a standing joke in the industry - do some cool thing with AWS to implement an infrastructure feature, and if it works well, Amazon will come along a few months later…
Read more →The Bastion That Isn't There @ London Hashicorp Meetup 3rd Dec 2019
Here's a video of my presentation on 'The Bastion That Isn't There' and a Micro-component approach to Infrastructure using Terraform modules. Given at Sainsbury's London Head Office in December 2019 to the London…
Read more →Read my Techerati Interview, See me at Cloud Expo Europe in London
I'll be presenting 'The Bastion that isn't there' at Cloud Expo Europe on 12th March 10:55 at the ExCel in London I have a personalised link: ww.cloudexpoeurope.com/JoshuaKite where you can book a free ticket Meantime…
Read more →How not to do alerting
This article has been edited in Feb 2026 and also been published on Medium There has been much written about the right way to handle alarms and alerts for Sysadmins, Ops and Reliability Engineers. I find that examining…
Read more →The Bastion Server That Isn't There
Deploying ssh Bastion as a stateless service on AWS with Docker and Terraform I also have a presentation and live demonstration on the below, so far given at DevSecOps - London Gathering June 13 2018. This article has…
Read more →Implementing the ELK stack with microservice containers on AWS with Terraform
25 Minute reading time (but article is composed of short, numbered sections!) 1 - why is this article different to every other blog post on the ELK stack? There's a lot of articles on ElasticStack/ELK components out…
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