AWS

Setting up SNS topic permissions for AWS budget alarms

AWS Juan Mulford - August 18, 2020

To create a budget that sends notifications to an Amazon SNS topic, the budget must have permissions to send and publish notifications to your topic. In this post, we will explore how to grant those budget permissions, a workaround to simple use email contacts.

Configure an AWS budget alarm to control your account costs

AWS Juan Mulford - August 16, 2020

In this post we are going to set a budget alarm. An AWS budget enables you to set custom budgets based on your costs, usage, reservation utilization, and reservation coverage.

Configure an AWS billing alert to control charges

AWS Juan Mulford - August 3, 2020

In this post, we are going to create a billing alert that triggers when your AWS account spends in total goes over a certain threshold each month, to estimate charges.

How to create an AWS Free Tier account

AWS Juan Mulford - August 1, 2020

In this post, I am going to share the easy steps to create a free AWS account. After you create the account, you’ll have access to the AWS Free Tier, from which you can gain hands-on experience with the AWS platform, products, and services.

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Raspberry Pi OS in a Virtual Machine with VMware

Juan Mulford - November 13, 2020 4

Although the Raspberry Pi OS is designed and optimized for the Raspberry Pi module, it is possible to test and use it without its hardware, with VMware. This solution can be useful if you are a developer (or just a curious guy) and don't have a Raspberry Pi module with you

Unable to delete an "inaccessible" datastore

Juan Mulford - March 8, 2019 7

I was switching my storage array, so I migrated the VMs from that old datastore/storage to a new datastore/storage. The old datastore was shared by 3 ESXi hosts, no cluster. After migrating the VMs and unmount/delete the datastore, it was still presented in two of the ESXi hosts and was marked as inaccessible.

This is not a valid source path / URL - SourceTree and Gitlab

Juan Mulford - February 29, 2020 1

I have been working on a project with a friend who set up a repository in Gitlab but even though I was able to view all projects on it, I couldn’t really join the repository. I was using SourceTree and Gitlab.

How to export a Virtual Machine using the VMware OVF Tool

Juan Mulford - April 5, 2020 9

The VMware OVF Tool is implemented by VMware for easily importing and exporting virtual machines in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard format. Here, I want to show you how to download and install it, and then how to use it from a Windows machine.

Couldn't load private key - Putty key format too new

Juan Mulford - December 1, 2021 5

couldn't load private key - Putty key format too new.” This issue happens when you use PuTTygen to generate or convert to a ppk key. Here is how to fix it.