Tag: AWS

Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: AWS HA Multi AZ for GlobalProtect – Part 2

  VM-Series Firewall SSH To use WebUI, we need to set an administrator password, for this, need to connect via SSH. After creating instances, it takes 10-15 minutes before the Firewall is initialized and will be available via SSH Connect to the first instance, SSH user – “admin” And execute the following commands: Enter the … Continue reading "Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: AWS HA Multi AZ for GlobalProtect – Part 2"

Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: AWS HA Multi AZ for GlobalProtect – Part 1

  The Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall uses an active/passive configuration for high availability. In which the active firewall constantly synchronizes its configuration and information about active sessions with a similarly configured passive firewall. There are two options for achieving HA on AWS: “Secondary IP Move” and “Dataplane Interface Move“. Secondary IP Move If the active … Continue reading "Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: AWS HA Multi AZ for GlobalProtect – Part 1"

 S3 – Mounting in Linux

In order to mount an S3 Bucket as a file system, you need to install s3fs Create a directory to mount:   And add the following to “/etc/fstab“:   Where: “artem-service-bucket:/upload/” – S3 bucket name and the directory inside the bucket to mount “url=https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com,endpoint=eu-central-1” – the region where the S3 bucket is located “iam_role” – … Continue reading " S3 – Mounting in Linux"

 Terraform – AWS SSM: Extract content

The SSM Parameter Store contains the following JSON:   It is necessary to extract the login and password, and use their values in the Terraform code. To do this, you can use the following construction:   And use variables:    

 Python – AWS EBS creating snapshots based on a tag and keeping only one latest version

This script looks for an EBS in the region “eu-west-1” with a tag whose key is “Application” and the value is passed as an argument, creating a snapshot of this EBS. In the same way, it searches for a snapshot by tag and deletes everything except the last one. An example of running to create … Continue reading " Python – AWS EBS creating snapshots based on a tag and keeping only one latest version"

 Python – AWS S3 keep N latest artifacts

This script gets a list of all directories in the bucket and deletes all objects in each directory, except for the last “N” specified. To run the script, you need to pass two arguments: Bucket name Number of last stored objects How to use it:   main.py: