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IAM Identity Center - Why It Replaces IAM Users
Part 6 of the AWS account structure series. Setting up AWS IAM Identity Center for human access, understanding the identity store, and why it's the recommended approach over IAM users.
Permission Sets - Designing Access Patterns
Part 7 of the AWS account structure series. Creating permission sets in IAM Identity Center with managed policies, inline policies, and appropriate session durations.
Cross-Account Access Patterns - Deployment Roles and Role Chaining
Part 8 of the AWS account structure series. Designing cross-account deployment roles, understanding role chaining, and implementing external ID protection.
How Maptrics Found 1,000+ SEO Issues on My Site Before Google Did
A real-world walkthrough of using Maptrics to crawl a Next.js site, uncover 24 unique SEO issues across 81 URLs, and fix the high-priority problems — missing H1 tags, short titles, incomplete Open Graph metadata — before they impacted search rankings.
Keyless CI/CD with GitHub Actions OIDC
Part 5 of the AWS account structure series. Eliminating long-lived AWS credentials by using GitHub Actions OIDC for secure, keyless authentication.
Running Ollama with GPU Acceleration in Podman on Windows
A complete guide to running Ollama in Podman Desktop on Windows with NVIDIA GPU passthrough via WSL2, including CDI setup, verification steps, CPU-only mode, and a GPU VRAM compatibility table.
Solving the State Problem - Terraform Backend Bootstrap
Part 4 of the AWS account structure series. The chicken-and-egg problem of Terraform state storage, and how to bootstrap an S3 backend with DynamoDB locking.
Backing Up and Restoring WSL Distributions
Export WSL distributions to tar archives, restore from backups, and build a simple backup routine with wsl --export and wsl --import.
Cloning WSL Distributions
Need a copy of your WSL distribution for testing? Clone WSL2 distributions using export and import, keeping your environment intact.
Importing Container Images as WSL Distributions
Turn any Docker or OCI container image into a WSL distribution. Import from Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, and more.