How do I find an EC2 Instance in a large AWS organization?

I have recently faced the issue repeatedly: a server needs attention, and all info I get for it is a server name and that it’s hosted in AWS. No account ID, no region, no instance ID, not even the team responsible for it.

Since our organization has enough accounts with enough regions that it’s completely unfeasible to look for them manually, I’ve created a small python script that loops through all member accounts, loops through all regions, and grabs the EC2 instances with a specific tag.

What exactly are we building?

A fancy docker compose stack consisting of:

• A built in VPN container, through which all other containers’ traffic is routed
• Plex: A media library management tool that organizes and streams your media files.”
• Tautulli: Companion software to Plex, fine-grained control for monitoring and managing your streams
• Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr: Automating the downloads of TV shows, movies, music, and subtitles (in that order)
• Jackett: API-based management of indexers for the aforementioned list of download clients
• QBittorrent: Torrent client
• Watchtower: Tool to auto-update the containers

LUKS encrypts block devices. It can be used both to encrypt individual partitions within a disk, or entire LVM volumes, in which case you can have multiple partitions under an encrypted container.

A Solution for “InfluxDB Error: Bad Gateway” in Grafana

I’ve been ecountering a weird issue with Grafana when trying to set up InfluxDB: even though the config for the data source is correct, when trying to test it it returns InfluxDB Error: Bad Gateway.

In short:

• The Problem: Managing multiple drives dedicated to media for my Plex server is annoying
• The Solution: using mergerfs, a union file system to “merge” the drives and make storage management easier

Flashing ESPHome onto a Magic Hue LED Controller and integrating it into Home Assistant

A while back I have ordered a cheap, 5m LED strip with Wi-Fi capabilities. The hardware was perfectly fine, but the Wi-Fi controls only worked through the manufacturer’s own, questionable Chinese app that I didn’t really want to keep around on my phone. I set out to modify and configure the controller to work with both Home Assistant for home automation as well as Apple HomeKit for easy voice control.

The original CPU in my rickety home server was proving to be a little inadequate, but even the strongest supported CPU would have been such a small upgrade that I could not justify spending the money on it.

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