AWS Route53 Step-by-Step – Redirecting Domains GUI

While I’ve covered this one before with a specific two-step approach to do simple redirect.  This will repeat some of those steps with a new domain pointing to an alternate web site URL.  This is a real use-case example where I’ve bought a new domain that I want redirected to DiscoPosse.com as the target. Sample … Read more

VMworld 2016 – Quick Takes on the Event and Announcements Part 2 of 2

Following on my earlier article, I wanted to cover a few more things about the VMworld event this year in Las Vegas. For the deeper technical announcements and some great overall event coverage, I recommend these blogs that are well worth the read: WRITTEN GOODNESS: Rene Van Den Bedem: https://vcdx133.com/?s=vmworld Julian Wood: http://www.wooditwork.com/?s=vmworld Dee Abson: … Read more

Using jq to pretty print JSON output

If you haven’t already discovered jq, you definitely need to take a look.  This nifty little tool is handy for manipulating JSON content at the command line and within scripts.  The first quick thing I think will be helpful is showing how to pipe raw JSON output to jq to pretty print it (aka show it … Read more