Chef enables you to automate your infrastructure. It provides a command line tool called knife to help you manage your configurations. Using the knife EC2 plugin you can manage your Amazon EC2 instances with Chef. knife EC2 makes it possible to create and bootstrap Amazon EC2 instances in just one line - if you go … Continue reading Knife EC2: Manage Amazon EC2 Instances With Chef
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Cloudfront Caching for Performance
After making the legwork to get your static resources running on S3, it's really just a matter of throwing a few digital switches to get them into Amazon's Cloudfront CDN. And why would you want to do this? Simple answer - performance. Amazon's CDN has enough strategically located datacenters throughout the world to reach your … Continue reading Cloudfront Caching for Performance
Moving Static Resources to S3
We moved our static resources to S3 back in May of this year. The transition was so 'simple' and seemless that it's hard to believe we've been using it for over 6 months now. Matthias is now thinking about doing the same and asked me for a howto including any pitfalls and caveats that I … Continue reading Moving Static Resources to S3
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