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Use Pi-Hole to block ads for yourself & others in your network

Jun 11, 2023 · 8 min read · Motivation These days, the internet is full of ads and you can't read any piece of news/blog without encountering any banner/full-page ad/pesky pop-up(s). Whenever my parents read any piece of news, their experience is ruined by the sheer number of a...

Fix RootFS related errors in your failed EC2 Linux instance

Mar 19, 2023 · 3 min read · TLDR; If you face the RootFS-related issue, try to check whether the AMI was having an older version of the Linux kernel. If it does, chroot into your volume and perform a kernel upgrade. Once done, detach the volume and create an AMI out of it. This...

Setup paid SSL Certificates for your NGINX installation

Mar 18, 2023 · 7 min read · TLDR; To generate the certs, create a CSR file with the following: openssl genrsa -out domain.com.key 2048 openssl req -new -sha256 -key domain.com.key -out domain.com.cs Upload the contents of the CSR to your SSL certs provider (in my case, Com...

Writing effective service files in Linux for your Application

Mar 11, 2023 · 6 min read · TLDR; If you would like to write a basic systemd service file or a Supervisor conf, follow the links here (systemd) and here (supervisor). These contain a basic template of the service file. You can modify the parts of it as per your requirements. On...

Keyless GitHub Actions Authentication to AWS

Feb 16, 2023 · 6 min read · Motivation Whenever we're configuring GitHub Actions for our CD actions to AWS cloud (for example, syncing our front-end code, running Terraform etc.), as with any other CI/CD provider (TravisCI, CircleCI, Jenkins etc.) we generally create a separate...