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STATIC WEBSITE WITH AWS S3 AND CLOUD FRONT CDN

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                                   STATIC WEBSITE WITH AWS S3 AND CDN As the title says let us see how to setup static site with S3 and CDN for high delivery performance. S3: First login to your AWS console and navigate to S3 console, Create a S3 bucket in the same name as your website ex: cdn.example.com In the permission tab edit public access and make the bucket as public as below, Update the bucket policy as below which makes the bucket public, {     "Version": "2008-10-17",     "Id": "PolicyForPublicWebsiteContent",     "Statement": [         {             "Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",             "Effect": "Allow",             "Principal": {                 "AWS": "*"             },             "Action": "s3:GetObject",             "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::cdn.example.com/*"         }     ] } Update the ACl as below, You

Azure AD login for linux and windows(on premise)

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                                  Azure AD login for linux and windows(on premise) In this blog I will explain how to login to your on-premise Linux and windows instances using your Azure AD credentials without any need of on-premise AD. First let us see how to do it in ubuntu: For ubuntu we will be using ADAL for nodejs for implementing this. You can get the code from the git-repo here, https://github.com/thuvarageshchiv/adal-for-linux.git  move to your home directory, $ cd ~ $ git clone https://github.com/thuvarageshchiv/adal-for-linux.git $ cd adal-for-linux/adal-auth-ubuntu/aad-login $ ./install.sh  [NAME of YOUR AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY] [APP CLIENT ID] Now before running the script we need details of the Azure AD name and native application client ID. To get your directory name just login to Azure active directory and switch to users and select the user for whom the access is needed. The user name has a mail ID like thuvaragesh@ example.com here example.com is your directory name.

Ubuntu 18.04 no audio error

                                                                   UBUNTU 18.04 NO AUDIO ERROR     I  am posting the fix which worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04. Permanent fix: sudo apt install alsa-tools-gui Run  hdajackretask Parser hints > jack_detect = no Apply now Install boot override Some times you get error while on Apply now like, /sys/class/soynd/hwC0D2/reconfig: device busy then kill the process like  $ sudo pkill pulseaudio Now reboot.

Azure-AD SSO with AWS manual Cli access

                                               Manual Cli access for Azure-AD SSO to AWS For Cli access for Azure-AD SSO to AWS there is an opensource tool called AWS-Azure login  [ https://github.com/sportradar/aws-azure-login ]. But some may feel insecure for using your Azure credentials with opensource tools. Then how to gain Cli access. As mentioned in the Microsoft post [ https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169401-azure-active-directory/suggestions/39560995-azure-ad-aws-cli-authentication ] the process seems to be lengthy and manual but still it is possible. You cannot find all these steps in a single place anywhere as documented here. So, if you are security concerned to not share your Azure credentials with opensource tools then you can follow below steps. Start     Azur e- AD  SSO  and capture the SAML response from the browser developer console:    Google chrome:   To view a SAML response in chrome   These steps were tested using version 54.0.2840.87m. If you use another version