Intro The introduction of PowerShell Gallery in PowerShell 5.0 is something that the Windows world has been craving for a long time (alongside Chocolatey, though I have somewhat mixed feelings about Chocolatey). The PowerShell equivilent to pip, gem, npm, it allows you to install community made PowerShell modules with…
Pagerduty has a pretty kickass reporting feature, but my aim is to create a holistic dashboard for my team's operational work, and to do that I need to have all my data in one place. That one place? Splunk! I love Splunk, have done ever since seeing a presentation on…
Intro WinOps is a conference in London aimed at addressing the fledgling audience of Windows people trying to DevOps. It's also a monthly UserGroup which I attend regularly, so I was excited to see how the content translated from UG to conference. I don't have slide decks for all of…
Go I've been wanting to get into Go for a while. Despite the logo it's a very respectable open source project developed by a team at Google that "makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software". Crucially, Go is a cross-platform, compiled language that's used notably by the…
As I mentioned in a previous post, AWS Config is an excellent tool for ensuring compliance across your AWS accounts, but can be challenging to set up consistently across large numbers of regions and accounts. To ease this pain I attempted to set up AWS Config using CloudFormation but found…
