Vagrant is a development friendly tool to make easy creation of development environments. In its own words it “Creates and configures lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments”. Today we are going to learn how we can use chef-zero to provision guest OS for the development environment. We are not going to explore basic of Chef […]
The much talked about AWS CodeDeploy is being used as a daily deployment tool. According to AWS “AWS CodeDeploy coordinates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises instances, or both. (On-premises instances are physical devices that are not Amazon EC2 instances.)” On-premise support came in mid-2015. AWS CodeDeploy has been the choice of many since […]
AWS Inspector is an automated security assessment service which helps to improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS EC2 by identifying potential security issues, vulnerabilities, or deviations from security standards. Using Amazon Inspector, one can easily automate security testing across development, test, and production environments, identifying security vulnerabilities as a part of […]
Cloudfoundry: Open Source Platform as a Service A platform used for running applications and services. The purpose of cloudfoundry is to change the way apps and services are deployed and run by reducing the cycle time of development to deployment. Cloud Foundry directly takes benefits of cloud-based resources such that apps running on the platform […]
Platform as a service (PaaS) : a cloud computing model which allows user to deliver applications over the Internet. In a this model, a cloud provider provides hardware ( like IaaS ) as well as software tools which are usually needed for development of required Application to its users. The hardware and software tools are […]
In my previous blog post, I wrote about Cost Optimizations for the various AWS resources. The script consisted of six methods and the overall time required for the script to execute was roughly about 15-20 mins. While the script is running, it used to slow down my system. Also, there was a time consumption due […]
AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service using which you can perform actions by executing some set of code on any event. We are using a lambda function to trigger AWS ECS container auto-scaling that is executed on the SNS event. Below is the AWS Lambda code in node.js that will get Cluster Name, Service […]
As we know AWS provides a good edge in terms of cost over the on-premises data center or in a co-location environment with its On Demand and Reserved pricing. As it is rightly said “Reducing the overall cost is a high priority” and it is true for any organization whether big or small. By using […]
Autoscaling is a service in AWS, which is used to launch or terminate an instance based on user-defined policies, health checks, and schedules. There are several ways to configure an auto-scaling group in AWS, here we are focusing on implementing it in python using AWS python module boto. Before Creating an Autoscaling Group we have to […]
