The lifecycle hooks are the great feature of auto scaling, it helps to control instance launch and termination state within auto-scaling group. I got to know about this hidden feature when I was looking for a solution where I had to perform some automated tasks on the instance before adding/removing it from auto-scaling group. I was […]
This blog post refers to a newly established concept in Docker Technology i.e. Docker Swarm. The Swarm can be used for clustering of more than one Docker engines. Using Swarm, Docker containers can be launched to any node in the cluster. It comprises of 2 logics based on which containers can be launched and managed […]
Last week, I got into a situation where I had to scale the application to store unpredictable user sessions in Memcached. The vertical scaling could be extended up to a limit but to meet the application requirements, I had to go with horizontal scaling. AWS does not provide any service to autoscale Memcached nodes according to […]
CHEF is the most popular configuration management tool in the market these days as CHEF turns infrastructure into code and you can do almost anything using it. Recipes are the heart of CHEF. OpsWorks has been gaining a lot of momentum for last few months, the major factor being its support for CHEF. So, in this […]
Docker monitoring is very important when it comes to using Docker. In my last blog, I talked about how we can monitor the status of a Docker container using a bash script and AWS CloudWatch. In this blog, I will be telling you how to get insights of your Docker container using a tool called […]
PostgreSQL is another SQL. It is the second most popular Structured Query Language after MySQL. The steps discussed in the blog can be used for any kind of migration of PostgreSQL. From on-premise to cloud or on-premise to on-premise or cloud to on-premise. Use-case I had to migrate my PostgreSQL running on an EC2 server […]
The AWS re:Invent 2015 has brought with itself a lot of new iterations of services and a lot of new services as well. One such iteration of AWS CloudWatch is the AWS CloudWatch Dashboards. Any of you who might have used tools like Datadog would definitely have heard of metric Dashboards where you can create you […]
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. […]
Day 2 here in Vegas @ re-Invent started with an unimpeachable energy of 19000 ninjas with Keynotes of Andy Jassy (SVP, Web Services @ Amazon). In 120 minutes, he gave the insight of new AWS growth metrics and made 12 announcements which include new services and features. New Services and Features Announcements (source: https://aws.amazon.com/new/reinvent/) Amazon Quick Sight […]
