Author: appadmin

Flutter for mobile app development

Mobile apps have become an essential part of our daily lives, with over 6 billion smartphone users worldwide. As a result, there has been a significant increase in demand for mobile app development. There are two main approaches to mobile app development: In this blog, I’m going to talk about the leading cross-platform framework, Flutter, […]

AWS EventBridge Triggering SSM Automation IAM Role Error

I recently wanted to create an Amazon EventBridge rule that will schedule an SSM Automation document. A rule watches for certain events (cron in my case) and then routes them to AWS targets that you choose. You can create a rule that performs an AWS action automatically when another AWS action happens, or a rule […]

Migrate to AWS EC2 with SQL licensing included

While performing a lift and shift migration of Windows SQL Server using the AWS Application Migration Service I was challenged with wanting the newly migrated instance to have a Windows OS license ‘included’ but additionally the SQL Server Standard license billed to the account. The customer was moving away from their current hosting platform where […]

Google Cloud’s Second Region in Australia

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has extended its reach in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) with a second region in Melbourne. Why does this matter? Having two regions inside Australia allows for customers to extend their architecture for highly available or disaster recoverable solutions. Google now join Azure (who has 3) as having multiple regions inside […]

SQL Database Backup on IaaS using Azure Automation

I had a need to take a full SQL Database backup from a virtual machine with SQL Server hosted on Azure. This is done via an Azure Automation account, executing a runbook on a hybrid worker. This is a great way to take a offline copy of your production SQL and store it someplace safe. […]

Deploy Craft CMS with Azure App Service for Linux Containers

Here is some key points to deploy a Craft CMS installation on Azure Web App using container images. In this blog we will step you through some of the modifications needed to make the container image run in Azure and the deployment steps to run in an Azure DevOps Pipeline. CraftCMS have reference material for […]

Fault Tolerant Multi AZ EC2, On a beer budget – live from AWS Meetup

Filmed on 18th of March 2021 at the Adelaide AWS User Group, where Arran Peterson presented on how to put together best practice (and cheap!) cloud architecture for business continuity. The title: “Enterprise grade fault tolerant multi-AZ server deployment on a beer budget” Recording RATED ‘PG’ – Mild course language. Presenter More Reading Amazon Elastic […]

Azure Migrate – Additional Firewall Rules

When deploying Azure Migrate Appliances to discovery servers, the appliance needs outbound internet access. In many IT environments, servers are disallowed internet access unless prescribed to certain URL sets. Gratefully Microsoft have given us a list of what they think is the list of URLs that the appliance will need to have whitelisted. This can […]

Pimp my VS Code

Those who know me, know that I have a keen interest in software tools and exploring the various different ways that people use them. I take great joy in exploring custom or 3rd party plugins and add-ons to get the most out of the tools I use every day. From OS automation tools (like BetterTouchTool) […]