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In one of my Ansible playbooks I needed to only execute a couple of tasks if they were running on an EC2 instance.

Shell scripts I come across sometimes have for instance “#!/bin/bash -eux” on the first line. Because I’ve Googled for this too many times now, I’ll record the meaning of these options here for my own sanity.

These are the notes I took on the second conference day of DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2017.

These are the notes I took on the first conference day of DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2017.

Before the regular DevOpsDays kicked off, there was a day filled with workshops.

Dan Poirier wrote an article on the Caktus Group blog about common web site security vulnerabilities. In it he talked about the CSRF protection in Django. Although he is right about a CSRF token having to be part of the POST request, this is not the entire story.

My notes from the second day of DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2016.

My notes from the first day of DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2016.

Before the ‘normal’ DevOpsDays, there was a day filled with workshops. These are the notes of the workshops that I attended.

My browser of choice has been Chromium for quite a while now. A couple of podcasts recently discussed how Chrome has become a memory hog and how Firefox has improved over the years. Time for an experiment.