LogEntries Managing log data across large autoscaling environments can be a time-consuming and expensive job. Logentries has designed a scalable service that dynamically supports autoscaling environment as log volumes expand and change dynamically. By centralizing all logs across distributed instances into one secure location, we can efficiently monitor and track log events in real time, […]
This blog post focuses on installation and configuration of two node Puppet setup, i.e. a Puppetmaster (or master) and an agent. Puppet is an open source configuration management tool used for automation of administration jobs across big server farms. It is written in ruby and uses DSL (Domain specific language) to write codes known as […]
AWS provide some intensive services and these are easily manageable and as being admin there is less overhead to scale up your application infrastructure. In automated deployments if we are planing to horizontally scale your database, with help of a single click we can populate read replica of our running database. But to handle large […]
Consider a use case where in any team members have opened port 22 for 0.0.0.0/0 inside an EC2 security group and forgot, which is a big security concern for the Instances. So I have written a script using python boto library which scans all the security groups of running / stopped instances and sends an email […]
Intelligrape (Now TO THE NEW Digital ) is an Advanced Consulting Partner with Amazon and specialises in large-scale implementations and managed services for web based applications. We have been working with Amazon team in India and outside on multiple initiatives since more than 2 years now. Amazon conducted its series of APN (AWS Partner Network) exclusive […]
Memcached is an ideal platform for accelerating application performance. It is important to identify and resolve the problem before it impact business. phpMemcachedAdmin is a great tool to proactively monitor the health and performance of Memcached. It will give you clear picture of hit and miss ratio and as well eviction rate in real time. […]
Varnish is an open source, free and flexible software which is used accelerate the speed of website by caching webpage contents in memory. Varnish caches content using hash-tables which are key-value store where URL is usually taken as key. Scenario Set up varnish to serve only specific pages of your website from cache. The webpages should only […]
In this blog, we would be using Dockerfile to create images and see how two docker containers would communicate using below scenario. Scenario Create two docker images using Dockerfile, one would host wordpress website and other would hold the website’s database. Using these images, create two containers, one for database hosting and other for website […]
EC2 Backup Manager : Python Scripts One of the most important requirements in any projects is regular backups. On one of our projects we were using Netflix’s backup monkey and graffiti monkey combined to take snapshots of all the volumes in the account. But this deviated slightly from our requirement, we only required the backups […]
