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Kiro is AWS’s agentic coding tool, available both as an IDE and a CLI.

Kiro hooks are actions that trigger at specific points in the agent’s lifecycle: before or after a tool call, when a file is saved, when the agent stops, or when you manually fire them.

Karpenter is an open-source Kubernetes node autoscaler created by AWS, designed to improve efficiency and cost savings by provisioning and de-provisioning nodes dynamically based on workloads.

Kubernetes apps often require a number of supporting resources like databases, message queues, and object stores.

In this article, I’m going to show you how you can migrate an existing EKS cluster to Graviton2 workers in a few simple steps.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) provides a managed Kubernetes service, allowing users to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers managed Amazon Elasticsearch clusters (or OpenSearch as they call their fork of the open source Elasticsearch) for deploying and managing search applications.

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine that enables you to store, search, and analyze big data in real time.

Depending on the size of the databases you have in mysql innodb the time it takes mysql to restart can be horribly slow (for very big innodb databases).

Chef 11 was released earlier in February and it is awesome!

While working on migrating a chef server from 0.10.x to version 11, I ended up extending the BackupExport and BackupRestore plugins written by Steven Danna and Joshua Timberman and added support for cookbooks and clients.

I’m working on many projects where we have a process that will make sure that every change we introduce in the cookbooks enters as a new version and where we use extensively environments to select what versions of cookbooks we want to use in each environm…

It’s been a little more than a year since I stepped up and became one of the organizers of the Bay Area Chef user group, trying to help my good friend Rob Berger as he was getting swamped with work and could not dedicate as much time to this, as he used to

For a while now, I wanted to migrate my blog from Wordpress to Octopress, but for some reason I kept putting it on the shelf and not doing it.

After completing the migration of my blog from Wordpress to Octopress I had the surprise that Disqus comments were not showing up on the site.

This week Opscode hosted its inaugural user conference here in San Francisco, and it was an awesome event enjoyed by all chef fans.

I just started working on a new project and as you would expect one of the first things I did was to download its git repository from github.

I’m packing for Boston and will be there next week for LISA11.

One of the advantages of being a member of the LISA11 Blog Team is that I was able to talk and interview this year program co-chairs: Tom Limoncelli and Doug Hughes.

Building packages is a task that every system administrator will end up doing.