Blogs

DevOps is a concept that emphasizes on building a culture of collaboration between developers and IT professionals. DevOps has been around for a while now and is being rapidly adopted by most of the software development organizations. Most IT organizations have formed their in-house DevOps teams that help in automation of end to end delivery […]

The TV industry has witnessed a phenomenal transition from the industrial age to the current digital age. The proliferation of smartphones and tablets have boosted the consumption of videos. Today, people are increasingly leveraging the power of Internet to consume videos anytime, anywhere and on any device. The substantial changes in the viewing habits of […]

The last two decades have seen a tremendous growth in the remote development and outsourcing industry. The key drivers behind the growth of remote development are cost and scalability. According to A T Kearney’s 2016 Global Services Location Index (GSLI), “India is rated as number one remote development destination out of the total 55 countries […]

Setting the clocks back to 2008, a small group of developers came up with an approach and a set of methodologies that helped to develop scalable products and bring business agility. Over the years, this became a part of our DNA. It is currently followed by a team of 700 product managers, engineers and testers. […]

This blog showcases the Customer and Environment segregation at the puppet-architecture-level for customized target deployments of the puppet modules. For instance, if one wants to deploy a puppet module to a specific customer and its specific environment type (Dev, Prod, Test), it is achievable by making the configuration changes in the puppet. Puppet is a […]

Vagrant is an open source tool for building and distributing virtual development environments. It provides framework to manage and create complete portable development environments. Vagrant machines are provisioned on the top of VirtualBox, VMware, AWS, or any other provider supported by vagrant.This blog illustrates how we can launch and provision instances in EC2 using AWS […]

Documentation is a very important aspect in any software development project because it helps us to understand how our software application works. Recently, I have been trying to give back to Grails community by updating existing plugins to Grails 3, creating and updating documentation of Grails plugins and by opening bug report. Mostly Grails 3 plugins […]

Kubernetes is one of the best orchestration tools for managing containerized applications. Features of Kubernetes: 1. Open Source 2. Support for multiple OS (Run anywhere) 3. Production Readiness In this blog, we are going to set up Kubernetes on our local environment through Minikube. Minikube supports Kubernetes features such as: DNS (Domain Name System) NodePorts and […]

In my previous blog, I had given an overview of Spinnaker and its capabilities. And in this blog,  we will see how spinnaker can be set up for continuous delivery. We will set up Spinnaker in an AWS environment, though Spinnaker can be set up on any platform (Google Cloud, Azure, Cloud Foundry etc.) and it can […]

Applications’ infrastructure migrations are a vital area of DevOps field. So many times, we need to migrate the applications from one cloud platform to the other. In order to carry out the migrations in an appropriate way, we should have some set of standards defined which make migrations smooth. In this blog, I’ll be discussing […]

Setting up SMTP server with GUI is needed for testing emails in applications. This setup not only prevents the mails from delivering to the email addresses but also sends the emails to invalid email addresses. I have come up with a scenario where I have to setup an SMTP server for the testing purpose in […]

In my previous blog, Getting Started with Kubernetes, I have explained the basics of kubernetes. In this blog, I will be explaining how to create deployment, pods, and service. Deployment and pods: Below command will create a deployment controller named a “my-nginx”, a pod with a single  container of an image nginx (base image of nginx […]