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Episode 266: 266: Dodging Ubuntu End of Life & Ruby on Rails DevOps with Justin Snair
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
⏱️ 25 minutes
📅 Published Apr 03, 2019
Show Notes
Ubuntu 14.04, a common Ruby on Rails hosting environment, reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. Brittany brought on Justin Snair, Director of Cloud Infrastructure for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to discuss his custom script for upgrading their hosting environments and his tips for earning AWS certifications.
Links for this episode:
- A Cloud Guru
- Linux Academy
- AWS Certification
- Canonical | The company behind Ubuntu
- Ubuntu 14.04 is Reaching the End of Life
- Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
- AWS Auto Scaling
- Justin's Rails Env Upgrade Script (Gist)
- Ruby packages for Ubuntu - Brightbox Cloud
- Postfix - Ubuntu Documentation
- Windows RADIUS server
- AWS CodeDeploy
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera
- Justin Snair on Linked In
- Justin Snair on Upwork
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
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