/post/Recent content in Posts on mccracken.cloudHugoen-gbSat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000/post/about/Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000/post/about/<p>My name is <strong>John McCracken</strong> and I am a Cloud Engineer based on the west coast of Scotland.</p> <p>With almost 20 years experience, I have a range of knowledge covering most aspects of tech. I&rsquo;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.</p> <p>Worked with some great people over the years, some of them seriously clever. Obviously none of that rubbed off on me.</p>/post/cicd/Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000/post/cicd/<p>This post is a quick description of the simple Continuous Integration\Deployment used for this website.</p> <p>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: <strong>its all free</strong>!</p>/post/iam-roles-anywhere/Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000/post/iam-roles-anywhere/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./post/weather_alerts/Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000/post/weather_alerts/<p>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.</p> <p>So I decided to write a quick solution that would alert me if the minimum nightly temperature dropped below a certain level.</p> <p>As always, this is done in AWS, mainly because I’m more comfortable there, and Azure is also honking!</p>/post/puppies/Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000/post/puppies/<p>i had to quickly fire up a website to find homes for our puppies. Using Hugo, Cloudflare and Netlify I had a site up and running within an hour, not bad indeed.</p> <p>Dogs found homes pretty quickly among friends and family, so no actual need for the site.</p> <p>It can live on as a tribute to my fur kids! <a href="https://puppies.mccracken.cloud">Puppies for sale</a></p>/post/one_day/Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000/post/one_day/<p>I have some blog posts on <a href="https://dev.to/johnmccuk">dev.to</a>, but haven&rsquo;t written anything in years.</p> <p>One day I&rsquo;ll write another post, but not today!</p>