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13 Shells of Christmas

Traditions (like in old german books) depict Odin from Germanic/Norse mythology as the ”Yule Father“ (Jólnir) and significant influence on the Santa Claus figure, sharing traits like a long white beard, leading a winter sky procession (the Wild Hunt), riding a horse (Sleipnir), bringing gifts during Yule (midwinter), wearing a blue rope before Coca Cola made it red.

Murex, Elvish, oil, nushell, es and ngs. I’ve heard the best parts of them do get adopted by Ion?

Fix for Amazon SSM Login on rootfs (no disk space left)

Sometimes AWS’s SSM StartInteractiveCommand doesn’t work once an EC2 instance’s root fs has run out of disk space.

aws ssm start-session \
  --target i-0ab4e6dce100a0f58 \
  --document-name AWS-StartInteractiveCommand

/etc/systemd/system/var-lib-amazon-ssm.mount

# SSM agent won't be able to login when disk is full
# so we reserve some space in-memory

[Unit]
Description=Mount /var/lib/amazon/ssm as tmpfs for SSM Agent
Documentation=man:systemd.mount(5)
Before=amazon-ssm-agent.service

[Mount]
What=tmpfs
Where=/var/lib/amazon/ssm
Type=tmpfs
# Mount options:
#   defaults: Standard options
#   noatime: Do not update inode access times for performance
#   nosuid: Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect
#   nodev: Do not interpret character or block special devices
#   noexec: Do not allow execution of binaries
#   mode=1777: Set directory permissions to rwxrwxrwt (sticky bit, world-writable)
#   size=64M: Limit the size of the tmpfs to 64 megabytes
Options=defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,exec,mode=1777,size=64M

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable it with:

Amazon Linux 2025 has been officially canceled

(Some people didn’t take note of that, so let’s make it clear)

Already in 2024(!) AWS re:Invent had news on that topic that did not get much attention: There will be NO AL2025! *

AWS cited customer feedback requesting more stability and longer support cycles rather than frequent major version changes. Many organizations found the biannual major releases challenging for “enterprise deployment cycles”. – maybe 20th century organizations? 😄

Therefore:

AL2 EOL has been extended to 2026
and AL2023 EOL until 2029!

Instead of Amazon Linux 2025, AWS will focus on AL2023 Enhancement: