Ramesh Natarajan

Once you create a Managed AD in an AWS account, you can share this AD with other accounts. This is a common use-case when you have AWS Managed Active Directory in a shared services account that needs to be shared with other workload accounts. The following are few points to keep in mind: Sharing to [...]

While working with PaloAlto firewall, sometimes you’ll find it easier to use CLI instead of console. Working on CLI is very helpful when you are testing something on a dev/test firewall, where you repeatedly try-out the same thing with different values, and don’t want to do multiple clicks from the UI and retype everything. In [...]

In AWS, whether you perform an action from Console, use AWS CLI, use AWS SDK, or when a AWS service does an action on your behalf, all of those API activities are logged in AWS CloudTrail. This tutorials explains the following 7 essential AWS Cloudtrail best practices with examples on how to do it from [...]

It is easier to manager AWS S3 buckets and objects from CLI. This tutorial explains the basics of how to manage S3 buckets and its objects using aws s3 cli using the following examples: For quick reference, here are the commands. For details on how these commands work, read the rest of the tutorial. # [...]

In your AWS environment, for configuration management, you can use AWS OpsWorks which provides managed instances of either Chef or Puppet. You have the following three options when using AWS OpsWorks. AWS Opsworks for Chef Automate AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise AWS OpsWorks Stacks – This is for application modeling and management. You can model [...]

While using git, for most part, you shouldn’t be working directly on the master branch. Any development work, or hotfixes, or research work that you do, you’ll typically create a new branch, and make changes to your code on that branch. If you are happy with your code changes on your branch, then you’ll merge [...]

Splunk supports three types of authentication: Native Authentication, LDAP and Scripted Authentication API. For most part, Native Authentication is referred as Splunk authentication, which takes high priority over any external authentication. So, if an user exists in both Splunk native authentication and LDAP, Splunk will use the user in the native authentication. Typically, you’ll create [...]