AWSTechnology

AWS re:Invent 2015 – Day 1 @Las Vegas

So, the big event has started and TO THE NEW is also taking part at AWS re:Invent 2015 annual conference this year again. This event is going to feature more than 250+ Technical session, Keynotes announcements, Partner expo, Hackathon and many more. A huge number of companies are here to showcase their product at Partner expo […]

AWSDevOps

Monitoring Docker container status using AWS CloudWatch

There are no such tools till now to monitor whether your Docker container is running or not. Now, I had a Docker container running in production and I could not afford not knowing whenever it went down or rather stopped. So, I decided to do something about it. The blog is about the same. What […]

Ranvijay Jamwal
Ranvijay Jamwal
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AWSDevOps

Docker containers and AWS Auto-scaling – Hand in Hand

In my previous blog, I talked about setting up sendmail inside a Docker container. In this blog, we will talk about how to make your Docker containers come up during Auto-scaling of AWS servers, start, and use a service like sendmail inside them. You can make changes to scripts based on your use-case. I just want […]

Ranvijay Jamwal
Ranvijay Jamwal
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AWSDevOpsGrails

Chef recipe to deploy Grails war on a new production server

Chef, a configuration management tool not only brings a lot of functionality to DevOps but can also ease the process of multiple deployments at the same time. A major use case of Chef is to deploy the latest code on your old as well as new production servers. Chef, with its enormously great functionalities, can […]

Tarun Saxena
Tarun Saxena
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AWSTechnology

Auto-Recovery of AWS EC2 instance

You can now Auto-Recover your AWS EC2 instance in the case of failures from Amazon side. Whether it is a hardware problem, underlying host problem or any other problem that occurs from Amazon side to your AWS EC2 instance, the instance can be recovered automatically.  It increases the availability of the instances provided by Amazon to […]

AWSTechnology

Selective blocking of curl and wget

Wget is a pretty handy tool that lets users download files from any HTTP/HTTPS or FTP server. Curl, on the other hand is an amazing tool that helps you build a new request with plethora of protocols such as  HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Telnet, SMTP etc. These tools can be used to test protocols or your […]

Gunjan Sawhney
Gunjan Sawhney
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AWS

MongoDB Replica Set on Docker

In the previous blog, we discussed about how to setup MongoDB replica set on AWS EC2. In this blog post, we will be discussing about setting up MongoDB replica set of three Docker containers running on a single host. After going through this blog, you will be able to setup MongoDB replica set in a few […]

AWS

Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

Hi Guys, I have already discussed briefly about different streaming technologies, different adaptive streaming implementations, on-premise solutions and cloud solutions in my last blog Kick start with Video Streaming. Now I am going to discuss HTTP Live Streaming, which is one of the popular implementation of adaptive streaming. HLS is HTTP based media streaming communication protocol. […]

AWSDevOps

Setting up Sendmail inside your Docker container

In my last blog, we talked about setting up a WordPress site on Docker. I hope you all are now clear on how Docker works & how you can set up your own PHP applications on it. In this blog, we will be talking about how to send emails from your Docker container. My use-case […]

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