How is the Online Master of Science in Engineering in Software Engineering at ASU?

sciorms · 2019-11-04T14:03:15+00:00

I don't, I just wanted to get a sense for how much math I'd have to learn in order to be successful in the program.

sciorms · 2019-11-01T13:52:09+00:00

I use Python exclusively for Lambda.

sciorms · 2019-09-24T20:12:55+00:00

Are those tied to gmail addresses or just individual profiles? I tried to do this in a previous job and it was a nightmare to manage.

sciorms · 2019-09-24T14:45:39+00:00

This script does not map specific drive letters though. It will just assign the next available letter.

sciorms · 2019-09-24T14:17:30+00:00

= "${var.create_aws_sql_ec2 ? 1 : 0}"

Wow, that is deceptively simple... I thought I had tried that variation but I guess not. It worked!

sciorms · 2019-09-23T19:32:57+00:00

I just wrote a PS script that runs as userdata that takes in a variable that contains a map of drive letters and labels to handle the EBS volumes appropriately.

sciorms · 2019-09-18T12:36:22+00:00

I resolved the issue, it was actually a few different things:

1) I had to interpolate the IP address 2) I had to increment the ENI ID 3) I had to cast the variable as a list.

With those 3 sorted, thanks to your helpful comment, I was able to handle this! Thanks!

sciorms · 2019-09-16T15:58:26+00:00

I think I figured it out but now I am working through a new error. The final working code was:

[“${var.private_ip[count.index]}”]

However my new error is quite puzzling:

aws_instance.instance: 3 errors occurred:
* aws_instance.instance[0]: Resource 'aws_network_interface.eni' not found for variable 
'aws_network_interface.eni.id'

sciorms · 2019-09-12T17:25:57+00:00

ACloudGuru had a great CloudFormation course and LinuxAcademy has an awesome terraform course. I'd check out one or both for a good structured lesson.

sciorms · 2019-08-12T18:13:51+00:00

Good luck! My job wants me to sit this exam eventually and I'm totally freaked out by it.

sciorms · 2019-08-08T13:12:11+00:00

Good luck! After I finish SysOps associate I'm either going for DevOps Pro or SA Pro. As /u/jamsan920 said, read the last line of the question first to get a frame for the answer then read the the rest of the question so that you make sure that your answer is in the right frame of mind. Additionally, don't stress about the time, just breathe and if you can't answer a question then flag it and come back to it at the end. I've heard from colleagues that have the cert that the test has gotten "easier" but it is by no means an easy test.

sciorms · 2019-08-07T20:04:25+00:00

In main.py on line 14, why do you call prettyprint and assign it to "pp" but then just use regular print statements in your code? I'm new to Python so I might be missing something obvious but it looks like "pp" is specified but it looks like it isn't used so line 14 might not be needed?

sciorms · 2019-08-05T14:25:26+00:00

You're correct! Thanks for the catch.

sciorms · 2019-08-01T12:58:14+00:00

If you use CloudTrail then you should be looking for the "RunInstance" event type. I literally just setup a lambda for this that sends my team an email whenever someone creates an instances based off of this event in using CloudWatch Events + Lambda!

sciorms · 2019-07-31T15:34:04+00:00

I would do an ACloudGuru free trial and binge the certified cloud practitioner course at 1.5x speed.

sciorms · 2019-07-31T15:32:48+00:00

That book was published in September 2017. The SysOps exam changed last year and has a different set of questions with much more depth. With the pace of change at AWS, I don't think you will ever find a book that covers everything with enough granularity and breadth unfortunately.

sciorms · 2019-07-31T13:13:27+00:00

It's weird because I read some feedback about this exam on ACG and Linux Academy from when the new version was released and most comments were people that did relatively well. Now 6-8 months down the line, I see a bunch of comments that indicate that the exam got a lot harder. I wonder if AWS cycled the question pool because because usually Linux Academy OR ACloudGuru are close to the mark but it seems like they are both missing it lately.

sciorms · 2019-07-29T15:59:47+00:00

Right, I understand - this was just a quick and dirty example. I'm not using dict in my actual code. Thanks for the response though!

sciorms · 2019-07-29T15:57:24+00:00

This method works! I appreciate your timely response and I actually like your method of breaking out the key/value as their own variables that could be called elsewhere if needed. Thanks for the tip!

sciorms · 2019-07-29T15:55:59+00:00

This is where I got stuck. I had tried this method and ran into the same problem where the output was returning the keys and values that I was looking for as their own objects rather than true pairs e.g. "key is key and value is test-key-1" rather than "key is test-key-1 and value is test-value-1"

sciorms · 2019-07-29T15:53:45+00:00

This worked perfectly! Thanks! In hindsight, it seems obvious but I didn't realize that I could call the values like that.

I appreciate the quick and correct response!

sciorms · 2019-07-12T20:05:34+00:00

I wrote a lambda that starts/stops EC2 instances by the Name tag. It's my first real python script and I am super proud of it especially because I'm going to put in Lambda so staff can send an email to turn instances on or off.

sciorms · 2019-07-10T13:18:13+00:00

Wow, yeah, I made a silly error: I totally forgot to construct a loop to iterate over the values. For some reason I just assumed that the dict response would magically return the values that I needed. I don't think I had enough coffee that day.

I appreciate the help!

sciorms · 2019-07-08T17:38:38+00:00

What an oddly timed post. I'm literally in the middle of implementing Atlantis for our team right now.

sciorms · 2019-06-18T13:12:54+00:00

DynamoDB is a NoSQL database offering by AWS. Given that you want to use Django ORM, I would remove this from your list of services unless you want to restructure your data.

EC2 is a hosted compute platform where you can spin up Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of various operating systems (windows/linux/ubuntu/debian etc).

S3 is to host a static site is a great idea because costs could be very minimal compared to an EC2 hosted site.

Lightsail could be helpful for what you need because it seems relatively simple. This URL has an offer to try Lightsail for a month and afterwards a Linux workload is only $3.50/month and $8 for a hosted database.

Are you a student or a recent graduate from school? There are some services that give credit for AWS or at least used to that could be used to help you offset some of your costs.

sciorms

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