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IAM Privileges: How to check what privileges are being used
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When we are working with IAM roles, it's essential to make sure that the permissions we are granting exactly what we need: No more, no less.
The AWS SDK provides a way to check what privileges are being used by a role, group, or user. This can help us to fine-tune the permissions we are granting and remove any unnecessary privileges.
07/10/2024
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Dealing with zombie processes in containers
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When we run a process in a container, it becomes the init process. This means that it is responsible for reaping any child processes that exit. If it doesn't do this, they become zombies.
Having some zombies are not a problem, but if you have too many of them, you can run out of resources (PIDs, memory, disk space...). This is what is going to cause issues in your host system: the zombies won't be a problem, but the resources they consume will.
02/10/2024
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