AWS, DevOps

Launching an AWS EC2 instance using CloudFormation Template

AWS CloudFormation is a  service which gives us the flexibility to manage and provision our AWS resources. It gives us the option to choose sample templates or to design our custom templates to launch and provision the resources. It also gives the option of AWS CloudFormation Designer using which the templates are visualized. I have...

by Mohit Dayal Gupta
Tag: AWS EC2
30-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Setup and Configure Kubernetes Minions in Multiple AZs on AWS

In today's blog, I will be explaining how to set up Kubernetes Minion nodes in multiple availability zones on AWS. Please refer this blog if you are new to setting up a cluster on AWS EC2. It uses a kube_up script to bring the cluster up on single Availability Zone (AZ). If that zone goes down due to some reasons, your entire...

by Rakesh Mahajan
Tag: AWS EC2
01-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Utilizing AWS Ruby SDK to get AWS EC2 details in a CSV file

Over the years, Amazon has been integrating its web services with various programming languages to make it easier for developers to utilize various AWS resources effectively. It has made specific tools for popular programming languages like Ruby, Python, Java, .NET etc. Talking about Ruby, it is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented,...

by Vaibhav Gulati
Tag: AWS EC2
20-Jun-2016

AWS, DevOps

Elasticsearch Migration : Found to AWS EC2

Our DevOps team was using Found for one of our projects in the production environment. We have been facing a problem with found where it’s memory pressure frequently goes up and does not drop down so easily and until the time it remains up the Found was not able to serve the requests. Then, we decided to move to self-hosted...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: AWS EC2
04-May-2016

AWS

SSH tunneling with AWS private subnet

It has been a long time while I was working over the project where we required accessing Rabbit MQ dashboard. I know accessing the Rabbit MQ is not the difficult task but my scenario was bit complex. Scenario: I was supposed to access Rabbit MQ dashboard from AWS Linux machine which is placed in the private subnet of VPC (AWS) with no...

by Prashant Sharma
Tag: AWS EC2
10-Jul-2015

AWS

Logs Monitoring Using AWS CloudWatch

 Suppose, you have multiple servers running a simple web application on apache or Nginx and you want to put all the error/access logs on a centralized place so that you can troubleshoot your system in case of any error after getting alert notification configured on your logs . Here is an amazing feature of Amazon Web Services...

by Tarun Saxena
Tag: AWS EC2
20-Mar-2015

AWS

AWS CodeDeploy – A Sample Walkthrough

AWS has unveiled several new services and tools to the existing AWS services at its re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas. In this blog, let's take a closer look at AWS CodeDeploy, a brand new service aimed for code management and deployment and walk through the process of  setting up and deploying an application. AWS...

by Ishant Kumar
Tag: AWS EC2
14-Nov-2014