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AWS Provisioning and Deployment with Linux EC2 instances using PowerShell

I didn’t expect to find myself needing to learn PowerShell for automation purposes, but I must admit I really like it. It seems sort of like an amalgam of Bash, Perl and Python. It’s an unexpectedly impressive creation from Microsoft. I’ve been using PowerShell on macOS but it can also be used easily on Linux, and Windows of course.

I created three simple PowerShell scripts for automated provisioning of Linux EC2 instances within AWS. Running these will provision an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 instance with SSH key pair and Security Group, with a webapp deployed thereon, plus an associated DNS record in Route 53.

You can find these scripts and related config on my GitHub.

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69 useful Terminal/CLI commands

For a long time I’ve maintained a memory aid in the form of a list of useful commands which can be used on the command line for Linux, macOS (OS X), BSD, Solaris, etc., so I thought I’d list them in a sticky blog post in case they come in useful for others. Most of these will run on any Unix-type operating system, though I’ve usually indicated where a command is OS-specific. These can be run manually for admin purposes and also scripted for automation purposes.

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How to set up an IPsec VPN on pfSense 2.1 for mobile OS X and iOS clients

I recently had to configure the open-source firewall pfSense to allow VPN access for mobile clients, particularly those using OS X on Macs and iOS on iPhones and iPads.

I haven’t found too many examples out there from people who have set this up successfully, so I thought it might be helpful to share this information for others who are trying to set up a similar VPN configuration.

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