Unable to Delete Empty Elastic Beanstalk S3 Bucket

For those who are doing AWS work among the different projects, you will most likely do some storage on S3 (Simple Storage Service) for templates and logs.  Each AWS service has the ability to write its configuration and logs to S3 and is usually a part of the setup wizard. Sometimes the permissions set by … Read more

Deploying a Docker Sandbox using Vagrant and VirtualBox

Even with the addition of more client-side tools for running Docker, it still requires installing development tools that may impact your local environment. Plus, I’m a fan of using VirtualBox to make sandbox environments that I can spin up and tear down as needed. This means that I never have to worry about version conflicts … Read more

Resizing your AWS VPC NAT Instance to a Lower Cost Instance Type

Let’s say that you wanted to run a lab using AWS and you need to set up a VPC. Thats a very common design that takes advantage of creating a secured Virtual Private Cloud within your AWS environment to isolate resources. There are 2 options for setting up your VPC networking for those who are … Read more

Presentation – OpenStack Summit Austin – Couch to OpenStack

For the folks who couldn’t attend the live event, here is my presentation from the OpenStack Summit in Austin for the Couch to OpenStack session.  Video and presentation below.  Hope that you find it helpful!   [pdf-embedder url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/discoposse-webcdn/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CouchToOpenStack-Austin.pdf”]