There is usually a reason why many people hunker down on a technology. There is a decision point, a problem space, or a justification. So why did I decide to start my blog anew and consume a drastically different workflow compared to that of Wordpress? Because others were. The “Cool Kids (tm)” were all using GitHub with markdown and static sites for their blogs and it was appealing. I used markdown a lot for technical note taking and it’s a logical step So in the end this resulted in using a Hugo theme for static site generation....

There is usually a reason why many people hunker down on a technology. There is a decision point, a problem space, or a justification. So why did I decide to start my blog anew and consume a drastically different workflow compared to that of Wordpress? Because others were. The “Cool Kids (tm)” were all using GitHub with markdown and static sites for their blogs and it was appealing. I used markdown a lot for technical note taking and it’s a logical step So in the end this resulted in using a Hugo theme for static site generation....

Version swapping made easy Are you a user of Terraform? You are? Great. Khajitt has wares - if you have coin. Elder Scroll jokes aside - Let me tell you about tfswitch. This handy little application allows you to swap versions of Terraform used by your local system without having to uninstall/reinstall a specific version for a manifest. Why would I want to use tfswitch? A Version Control System triggers a webhook for a Terraform manifest that needs Terraform to be set to a specific version The workflow and/or operator has to deal with using various versions (0....

I needed a new key pair for my AWS account. I encountered this error after creating a new AWS Key Pair. ssh -i ~/Desktop/burkey.pem ubuntu@52.64.228.25 The authenticity of host '52.64.228.25 (52.64.228.25)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:UxRi6jxC4zljwQrpPPgEKo5NL2Y5kCp5PIrVNU0HpJ4. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added '52.64.228.25' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Permissions 0644 for '/Users/aburke/Desktop/burkey....