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Backing up your route53 zone configuration with the aws CLI

cloudJan 30, 2020 1 min read

In a previous post, I discussed using the Kubernetes external-dns project to manage DNS changes. Prior to rolling it out, I needed a way to backup each zone prior to external-dns modifying it. I also wanted this to occur each time a commit occurred that resulted in a DNS change. This turned out to be super easy to do with the aws CLI…

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Exporting AWS Cloudwatch log streams to a local file

cloudJan 29, 2020 1 min

I love AWS, but when I'm debugging issues I prefer the Linux command line over Cloudwatch Logs Insights. Numerous AWS services store their log configuration inside cloudwatch, which presents a small challenge since my tooling (ripgrep, awk, jq, sed, etc.) can't directly access cloudwatch logs. The aws command line has a nifty get-log-events option which can solve this problem. It allows you to export logs from a log stream, and has several options to control what gets exported…

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