SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Use Azure AD DS and Window Virtual Desktop as a Test Environment
Summary: How to use Azure AD DS and Window Virtual Desktop as a Test Environment.
Date: Around 2020
Refactor: 20 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Note: This article was originally created in the first few months in 2020, before the Corona pandemic reached Europe and the US. Forced by the pandemic Microsoft made a lot of steps in this manual a lot more easy, and this article probably less relevant.
In this article the following services are being used:
- Azure Subscriptions
- Azure AD
- Azure AD Domain Services
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Bastion
- Azure Cloud Shell
- Windows Virtual Desktop
- Security Defaults
- Snapshots
AWS Managed VPN HowTo
Summary: How to setup a managed VPN into VPN.
Date: Around 2018
Refactor: 20 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This page shows some guidance in creating an AWS managed VPN. While configuring this I found the documentation sometimes lacking in information so that's why I created my own, including some troubleshooting and information on using BGP as well as static routing.
Note that this howto is about the amazon part. It does not cover the VPN setup in the on-premise datacenter.
AWS Toolkit for VS Code
Summary: Getting started with the AWS Toolkit for VSCode for Lambda functions.
Date: Around 2019
Refactor: 4 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Goal: Start working with AWS Toolkit for VS Code
- to use with Lambda and Step Functions
- Reason: Keep everything in source control
- Target: Create, Update and Deploy Lambda functions and step functions from VS Code
- Data must be in a Azure DevOps project
- View Cloudwatch logs
- How: Use the 10 minute tutorial for Step Functions
- Note that this page gets continued in SAM - Combining Lambda and Step Functions in AWS Toolkit for VS Code in which we also deploy the step function from the SAM.
AWStats - Statistics for your Webserver
Summary: How to configure AWstats in your apache webserver or reverse proxy.
Date: Around 2011
Refactor: 20 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
In this page we extend our Apache Reverse Proxy with a statistics tool called awstats, which is nothing more than a collection of perl scripts and tools.