Host a Static Site using Pelican , Amzon S3 for less than a $1*

This article was basis for creating my personal site SilverDreamRacer.me static site. The only cost for me was - Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zones : 0.5$

*Ofcourse there is domain cost , I have got my domain for …

Create Virtual Environment for Pelican

python3 -m venv ~/virtualenvs/pelican
cd ~/virtualenvs/pelican/
source bin/activate

install Pelican

python3 -m pip install pelican

Validate Pelican installation

pelican --help

Install Pelican Markdown related plugins

python -m pip install "pelican[markdown]"

Pelican Validation

pelican --help

Check installed Pelican Themes

pelican-themes -l

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Generate Bulk XML files for Load testing

UseCase : One of the very common use cases while performing loading testing an backend applications /services that rely on XML's as input is to generate 1000's of XMLs with minor differences and feed in to the application in order to gather the metrics …

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Count of search criteria "LifecycleException" per day index=index_name sourcetype=exception_source_typs host=host_name LifecycleException | bucket _time span=day |stats count by _time

Count of search criteria "LifecycleException" by app index=index_name sourcetype=exception_source_typs host=host_name LifecycleException | stats …

Install Chrome on Amazon Linux2 WorkSpaces

I recently started playing with Amazon workspace as my personal development environment and choose Standard with Amazon Linux 2 as my AMI.

Below quick steps to setup Chrome

Note : Amazon Linux 2 seems to be based on Centos RHEL Fedora based on the /etc …

Install Docker on Amazon Linux WorkSpaces

This is continuous to the post here , using Amazon Linux2 as my virtual desktop.

Amazon Linux doesnt come with docker pre installed so we need install required packages

Installing Docker And Starting the Service

$ sudo yum install -y docker

$ sudo service docker start

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Simple Search with various AND I’m happy to share with you all that i have successfully completed Splunk Core Certified User certification. My personal take on the exam.

• My background i have been using Splunk at job for day today activities, so if you have experience with Splunk then …