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Month: November 2019

AWS IAM – Creating Users with Limited Rights

AWS IAM – Creating Users with Limited Rights

In the past few tutorials I have shown you how to do some basic things with AWS. It is my guess that a few people have used their AWS root user account to perform some of these things. While functional, this is against best practices. When performing the tutorials or modifying them to suit your environment it is vital to create an IAM user and assign it the least amount of privileges needed to perform the role. Similar to what…

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Install JQ on Linux

Install JQ on Linux

I stumbled upon JQ a few days ago while working with awk, grep, and sed. It is similar to these tools, with the exception for that it is specifically written to parse JSON. Today we will cover a small guide on how to install this on various flavors of linux. If you prefer the source or want to install it on Windows, see this page. CentOS: Debian and Ubuntu: In future tutorials I will be incorporating the use of jq….

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