AWS, DevOps

Access and Modify Google Sheet using Python

  This would be my first blog where I am using Python. I am excited to share what I did using Python. I wanted to update google sheet using bash shell scripting but did not found anything I can play around using bash. Later, I opted for Python as it provides "gspread" library which could be used to work on google sheet. ...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: Automation
30-Jun-2016

DevOps, Technology

10 Key DevOps Practices to Improve IT Efficiency

DevOps integrates development and operations by maintaining close communication and collaboration across Development and Operations. Development, Testing, and Operations are all directed towards a common goal and work according to inputs from each other. DevOps as a service automates the end-to-end delivery processes within an...

by Anila Wadhera
Tag: Automation
06-Jun-2016

Automation Testing, Testing

Easy approach to handle authentication window in selenium webdriver

Before we get started, on how to handle authentication window in Selenium WebDriver. Let’s discuss what authentication window is & why it is used in applications? What is Authentication Window? Authentication is a process which is required to access some applications in which HTTP authentication is used for security purpose....

by Shilpa Ranjan
Tag: Automation
04-Feb-2016

AWS, DevOps

Automated Docker Deployment using Jenkins

Building a Docker image from a Dockerfile, creating a latest tag and pushing it on DockerHub are equivalent to executing three different commands manually. This could be automated by creating a bash script. Well, that was not a big deal until I had a requirement where I needed to perform above actions and additional task of immediately...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: Automation
25-Oct-2015

AWS, DevOps

Unifying control of multiple AWS accounts by using AWS STS

Recently, we came across a scenario where we need to create AMIs of multiple production servers running in four different AWS accounts. One solution was to create an automation script to be run on an AWS EC2 instance running in each aws account which would create AMI of all production servers running in each account. This would have...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: Automation
09-Oct-2015

AWS, Technology

Continuing with Boto: List IAM users having 90 days older Access keys

AWS recommends to rotate your IAM user's Access keys periodically. Sometime we create access keys for IAM user and keep using it. We forget to rotate the keys after a period of time, which is not considered as a good practice. Recently, we came across a use case wherein we were supposed to rotate the access keys which were created 90...

by Vikash Jha
Tag: Automation
01-Jul-2015

AWS, DevOps

Jenkins – Implementing Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy

In one of my recent projects, while working on Jenkins, I was required to create and implement a Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy. Installation of Jenkins is a simple task, but it took me a while to implement this strategy and later I found it quite easy enough and thought of writing a blog. Project-based Matrix...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: Automation
09-Jun-2015