John McCracken johnmccuk

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1. About

   My name is John McCracken and I am a Cloud Engineer based on the west coast of Scotland.

   With almost 20 years experience, I have a range of knowledge covering most aspects of tech. I’m mainly focused on AWS, but also have experience in Azure. I’ve reached this point in my career via various roles including training, database admin, web development, infrastructure management and security.

   Worked with some great people over the years, some of them seriously clever. Obviously none of that rubbed off on me.

2. Static Website CI/CD setup

   This post is a quick description of the simple Continuous Integration\Deployment used for this website.

   I’m under no false impressions that this is a great website, It suits my needs and is easy to maintain and best of all: its all free!

   website cicd

3. AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Demo

   AWS IAM Roles Anywhere is the preferred solution over using user access keys for machine access to AWS resources. This demo goes over setting up and using IAM Roles Anywhere.

   aws security

4. Weather Alerts Project

   It’s unusual that I ever think of a use case where my technical skills can help my everyday life. But it’s now seed planting time, I have a lack of sunny windowsills and it’s still too cold to risk putting my seedlings in the greenhouse at night.

   So I decided to write a quick solution that would alert me if the minimum nightly temperature dropped below a certain level.

   As always, this is done in AWS, mainly because I’m more comfortable there, and Azure is also honking!

   aws golang