Agile, AWS

Introduction to Spinnaker – Global Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery is the term that comes with agile methodology. You want to make changes frequently and deliver them without hassle onto production environment. Spinnaker is a Continuous delivery platform developed by Netflix that can make your way easy. According to the official website: "Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud...

by Raghu Sharma
Tag: cloud devops
30-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Create Extended EBS Backed LVM Volume on EC2

Sharing one of my use-cases, Jenkins has been increasing  over past few weeks, and we were about to hit the 50GB capping for Elastic Block Storage volumes on the Amazon EC2. And this is a problem that is affecting a lot of our team developers to test their build packages on the different environments. But, every time we have to increase...

by Ankit Kumar
Tag: cloud devops
29-Sep-2016

AWS, Big Data

What is Amazon Redshift and why you should definitely use it?

So you have spent some odd years of your software development career and now you know many of those RDBMS implementations in and out. In fact, you also already know that RDBMS is not the only enterprise storage and due to frequent scalability issues you encountered, someday you found about Big Data tools. Chances are you were...

by Ajay Sharma
Tag: cloud devops
26-Sep-2016

DevOps, Technology

Using Commercial SSL Certificates on your Linux Apache Server

Refer this blog to get a basic understanding of using self-signed SSL certificates on your Apache server. Also, the above link will help you in generating a private key and a CSR (Certificate Signing Request), which contains information about your country, locality, company, your public key, etc.; for your server. For commercial...

by Vaibhav Gulati
Tag: cloud devops
26-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Configuring Rate-Based Blacklisting of IP’s using AWS WAF and AWS Lambda

One security challenge we face these days is how to prevent our web servers from DDOS attacks. This blog illustrates how we can automatically block unwanted traffic based on request rate by using AWS WAF and Lambda. This setup automatically detects traffic based on request rate, and then updates AWS WAF configurations to block...

by Shruti Lamba
Tag: cloud devops
26-Sep-2016

DevOps, Technology

How we can setup CDN on Microsoft Azure with storage?

What is CDN? A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) which deliver webpages and other Web content to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and a content delivery server. Reasons to use CDN Different domains Browsers have limit of number of...

by Vishwadeep Maheshwari
Tag: cloud devops
31-Aug-2016

DevOps

DevOps in the Cloud: Your Gateway to Success

DevOps and Cloud is a combination one cannot resist. It not only makes the development process more efficient but leads to business success as well. The advantages are many; on-ground indications reveal that DevOps is a more productive way to develop software, plus it means better quality resulting code and faster delivery time. With...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: cloud devops
27-Apr-2016

AWS, DevOps

Change ssh key-pair of Running EC2 Instance

Sometimes we get the requirement to change the key-pair for some security reasons. In this article, we will be changing the key pair of running EC2 instances. Steps: 1. Create a new key pair from AWS Console. 2. Generate Public key from newly created key pair ( Private Key ). 3. Paste the generated public key ( from Step 2 ) in...

by Vikash Jha
Tag: cloud devops
19-Aug-2014

AWS, DevOps

Top 10 Benefits of Using AWS

Very often people ask for compelling reasons on why they should consider AWS for their infrastructure needs. Though there are hundreds and thousands of customers leverage AWS in more than 190 countries, with hundreds of case-studies including companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Dow Jones, SAP,  Coursera, NASA/JPL, Reddit, Vodafone,...

by Aman Aggarwal
Tag: cloud devops
28-Feb-2014