Archive for 2016
Launch Windows Server 2016 Nano in AWS with Powershell
21 Oct 2016Amazon Web Services yesterday announced they now have Amazon Machine images available for Windows Server 2016. This includes Nano Server, a perfect solution for a roll your own IaaS server to host your .NET Core APIs.
Windows Server 2016 Nano Server -A cloud-native, minimal install that takes up a modest amount of disk space and boots more swiftly than the Datacenter version, while leaving more system resources (memory, storage, and CPU) available to run apps and services.
Cloudformation stack creation – scripting via bash
29 Jul 2016Find yourself creating the same AWS Cloudformation stack a lot during testing?
Wasting too much time repeating typing in tags?
A simple post today with a quick solution.
Put your stack tags and parameters into json files and use this bash wrapper script to create the cloudformation stack. This script wraps the aws cloudformation create-stack command, but lets you create the stacks again and again with different names. The benefit is the parameters and tags are pre-defined.