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Git Switch from HTTPS to SSH

If you have trouble cloning a github repo using https, you can tell it to switch to SSH instead.

Here’s the command.

git config --global url.ssh://git@github.com/.insteadOf https://github.com/

I had to specify reconfigure when I ran terraform init.

terraform init --reconfigure

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Metadata URL

Here’s the metadata URLs for both AWS and GCP.

curl http://169.254.169.254/computeMetadata/v1/ -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google"
curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/

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AWS Terraform Security Group

How to create AWS security groups using Terraform.

resource "aws_security_group" "my-security-group" {
  name        = "my-security-group"
  description = "allow ports"
  vpc_id      = aws_vpc.my-vpc.id
 
  ingress {
    description = "ping"
    from_port   = 0
    to_port     = 0
    protocol    = "-1"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
  ingress {
    description = "http"
    from_port   = 80
    to_port     = 80
    protocol    = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
  ingress {
    description = "https"
    from_port   = 443
    to_port     = 443
    protocol    = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
  egress {
    from_port   = 0
    to_port     = 0
    protocol    = "ALL"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
  tags = {
    Name = "my-security-group"
  }
}