System Administration, Week 1: AWS Aliases
System Administrators are notoriously lazy, and AWS commands a notoriously lengthy to type. In this video, we demonstrate the use of shell aliases and functions to save ourselves some typing whenever we run AWS EC2 commands.
The aliases and shell functions we use are available here:
https://github.com/jschauma/cloud-functions/blob/main/awsfuncs
System Administration, Week 1: Warmup Exercise 1 - No Space Left On Device
In this video, we try to find out what happens when we run out of disk space as well as how the system behaves when use up all inodes. This is intended as a warmup exercise for our week 2 topic, introducing the concept of disk storage and filesystem behavior.
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