How to setup AWS lambda function to talk to the internet and VPC

I'm going to walk you through the steps for setting up a AWS Lambda to talk to the internet and a VPC. Let's dive in.

So it might be really unintuitive at first but lambda functions have three states.

No VPC, where it can talk openly to the web, but can't talk to any of your AWS services.
VPC, the default setting where the lambda function can talk to your AWS services but can't talk to the web.
VPC with NAT, The best of both worlds, AWS services and web.

cerdman / gist:8d31d1236b88de52b19a821e8398dda8

Created November 8, 2017 02:20 — forked from mmohiudd/gist:1c04702b965d309c2027

redis mass insertion

	The text file data.txt contains the following
	ZADD myzset 1 a
	ZADD myzset 1 b
	ZADD myzset 1 c

	Run this command to read from data file and insert to redis:
	cat data.txt\|xargs -n 4 redis-cli

cerdman / redis_cheatsheet.bash

Created November 8, 2017 02:19 — forked from LeCoupa/redis_cheatsheet.bash

Redis Cheatsheet - Basic Commands You Must Know

	# Redis Cheatsheet
	# All the commands you need to know


	redis-server /path/redis.conf # start redis with the related configuration file
	redis-cli # opens a redis prompt


	# Strings.

cerdman / main.py

Created October 21, 2016 05:14

BOTO: threaded SQS connections

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	from boto import sqs
	from boto.sqs.message import Message
	import threading, logging, time


	CONSUMERS = 30
	PRODUCERS = 5
	MAX_MESAGES = 10

cerdman / complete.sh

Created March 3, 2016 20:41 — forked from pcreux/complete.sh

Github Commit Status API with Bamboo from Atlassian. Add those to your plan as Script.

	# specs and cukes results are stored in JUnit format under test-reports
	if (grep 'failures="[^0]"' test-reports/* \|\| grep 'errors="[^0]"' test-reports/*); then
	curl -H "Authorization: token MY_TOKEN" --request POST --data '{"state": "failure", "description": "Failed!", "target_url": "${bamboo.buildResultsUrl}"}' https://api.github.com/repos/USER/REPO/statuses/${bamboo.repository.revision.number} > /dev/null
	else
	curl -H "Authorization: token MY_TOKEN" --request POST --data '{"state": "success", "description": "Success!", "target_url": "${bamboo.buildResultsUrl}"}' https://api.github.com/repos/USER/REPO/statuses/${bamboo.repository.revision.number} > /dev/null
	fi

cerdman / ElasticSearch.sh

Created October 7, 2015 21:26 — forked from ricardo-rossi/ElasticSearch.sh

Installing ElasticSearch on Ubuntu 14.04

	#!/bin/bash

	### USAGE
	###
	### ./ElasticSearch.sh 1.7 will install Elasticsearch 1.7
	### ./ElasticSearch.sh will fail because no version was specified (exit code 1)
	###
	### CLI options Contributed by @janpieper
	### Check http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/ for latest version of ElasticSearch

cerdman / authentication.py

Created September 23, 2015 15:29 — forked from WayneSan/authentication.py

PyJWT + Django REST framework 2

	import jwt

	from django.conf import settings
	from django.contrib.auth.models import User

	from rest_framework import exceptions
	from rest_framework.authentication import TokenAuthentication


	class JSONWebTokenAuthentication(TokenAuthentication):

cerdman / gist:64c532542f9208eacb36

Last active September 21, 2015 18:54 — forked from brantfaircloth/gist:764363

dynamic tests generation that works in unittest and nose

	# modified from http://bit.ly/dEyw03

	import unittest

	class TestMyGoods(unittest.TestCase):
	pass

	def create_dynamic_method(pair):
	"""just don't include `test` in the function name here, nose will try to
	run it"""

cerdman / gist:b46510cd6f292d6b501c

Last active August 29, 2015 14:22 — forked from whisher/gist:cf4ac38951f32bdcc59b

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html ng-app="myApp">
	<head>
	<title>Directives</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<div ng-controller="ChildController as child">
	<button type="button" ng-click="child.sayMe()">Say me!</button>
	</div>
	<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.0-rc.1/angular.min.js"></script>

cerdman / index.html

Created June 3, 2015 03:22

JS Bin // source http://jsbin.com/seqebu

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
	<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/lodash/lodash/3.5.0/lodash.min.js"></script>
	<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
	<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.15/angular.min.js"></script>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>JS Bin</title>

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