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To ensure the security of your Linux system, it’s important to properly configure SSH access. This guide walks you through the steps to secure your server by configuring SSH access, which includes disabling the root login, setting up a user for SSH, and implementing a key-based authentication. If using AWS Read more…
In this guide I’ll explain how to connect to AWS RDS (Relational Database Service) postgres instance from your local machine when your instance is not publicly accessible. This guide uses the SSH tunnel method. Connecting to an RDS instance via an SSH tunnel is a secure method, especially if your Read more…
In my previous article, I explained how using conventional commit messages can automate various processes, such as generating changelogs, and automating version bumps. In this article, I’ll show you how. You can automate your GitHub releases using the release-please GitHub workflow. Are you already following the conventional commits standard? If Read more…
Tips and tricks on my Lightsail instance, configuration and common commands. Removing the bitnami banner Documentation that shows how to remove bitnami banner is outdated for new instances. New instances on Lightsail don’t have a bitnami banner page, which I thought was unnecessary to begin with. You have all of Read more…
This guide will walk you through securing your Nginx server with Basic Authentication. By implementing basic auth, you can restrict access to authorized users only, protecting your server from unauthorized modifications or breaches. Basic Authentication is a straightforward method that demands username and password verification for users attempting to access Read more…
Why should you do it? Security If you’re using Cloudflare as a DNS proxy for your domain, you might have noticed that Cloudflare first sets up a flexible SSL connection. Flexible ssl websites get all the benefits of https, Google likes them and visitors like them. Even more, these websites Read more…
As a developer of several open source libraries using Angular, React, and Next.js, I have struggled with keeping them up-to-date and ensuring a smooth user experience for updates. Especially if I rarely used my published libraries, they often ended up being outdated. Problem with manual updates I relied on 2 Read more…
Internally my nextjs app uses a native node module built in Rust, and the awkward part is that my production uses a different processor architecture. I opted for the arm64 architecture. I can’t say much about it except it was recommended by aws, cheaper and more performant. My developing machine Read more…
By default every elastic beanstalk application has an associated S3 bucket for storing application versions, rotated logs (enable it) and temporary configuration. Multiple elastic beanstalks in a same region share the same S3 bucket. More on it in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/AWSHowTo.S3.html Push rotated logs to S3 To persist logs, you can configure Read more…
I created a custom Github action that deploys a static website to s3, and I want to point out a few details of my process of building a reusable action. For detailed reference refer to https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/about-custom-actions. There are 3 types of custom actions – docker, javascript and composite. For deploying Read more…