Agile, AWS

Setting up Spinnaker on AWS

In my previous blog, I had given an overview of Spinnaker and its capabilities. And in this blog,  we will see how spinnaker can be set up for continuous delivery. We will set up Spinnaker in an AWS environment, though Spinnaker can be set up on any platform (Google Cloud, Azure, Cloud Foundry etc.) and it can be later integrated...

by Raghu Sharma
Tag: aws
26-Oct-2016

AWS, DevOps

7 Common Cloud Migration Mistakes To Avoid

In last few years, enterprises have embraced IT modernization and migrated to Cloud. Cloud has become the de facto driver for digital transformation as it delivers many viable benefits. There can be numerous scenarios in which enterprises can benefit from cloud migration. For instance – if you need a highly scalable infrastructure...

by Shweta Sharma
Tag: aws
14-Oct-2016

AWS, DevOps

Launching an AWS EC2 instance using CloudFormation Template

AWS CloudFormation is a  service which gives us the flexibility to manage and provision our AWS resources. It gives us the option to choose sample templates or to design our custom templates to launch and provision the resources. It also gives the option of AWS CloudFormation Designer using which the templates are visualized. I have...

by Mohit Dayal Gupta
Tag: aws
30-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

AWS SES Integration for Java Applications

Use Case I came across a use-case, where I had to integrate Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to send transactional emails from a JAVA application using my own registered domain. This blog will guide the reader through the basic steps required for setting up or integrating Amazon SES with my JAVA application. About Amazon SES It...

by Mayank Negi
Tag: aws
30-Sep-2016

Agile, AWS

Introduction to Spinnaker – Global Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery is the term that comes with agile methodology. You want to make changes frequently and deliver them without hassle onto production environment. Spinnaker is a Continuous delivery platform developed by Netflix that can make your way easy. According to the official website: "Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud...

by Raghu Sharma
Tag: aws
30-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Leveraging AWS Data Pipeline To Easily Move Relational Data Between AWS, On-Premise Or Other Services

In today's time of data-oriented applications, there is a constant change and challenge in requirements of data onboarding from and to varied sources. You may find yourself stuck between traditional and time-consuming methodologies of data migration. These may incur unnecessary costs and other overheads, eventually affecting the delivery....

by Aakash Agarwal
Tag: aws
30-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Configuring IIS for ASP.net Application – Windows 2012

This blog aims at basic steps for setting up ASP application(Website) on IIS. The screenshot and steps are mentioned using Windows 2012 server edition. However, the same steps are also valid for Windows 2008 Server. We will be installing .Net 3.5 and 4.5 during the further steps. Steps To Follow 1. Open Server Manager and click add...

30-Sep-2016

AWS, Big Data

What is Amazon Redshift and why you should definitely use it?

So you have spent some odd years of your software development career and now you know many of those RDBMS implementations in and out. In fact, you also already know that RDBMS is not the only enterprise storage and due to frequent scalability issues you encountered, someday you found about Big Data tools. Chances are you were...

by Ajay Sharma
Tag: aws
26-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Control Jenkins Steps With Conditional BuildStep Plugin

If you look forward to Jenkins for most of your development operations then, at some point in time you might have felt the need of something which allows you to condition your steps. Of course, it is not such a good idea to create individual jobs each time you want to run and test specific build step/s. The solution is to use...

by Aakash Agarwal
Tag: aws
30-Aug-2016

AWS, DevOps

Database Migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

AWS DMS is a web service that is used to migrate the databases to and from an Amazon RDS DB instance, or a database on an Amazon EC2 instance, or on-premises. We can migrate data between homogenous or heterogeneous database engines. One of the two endpoints must always be in AWS. The source and target database may be in same VPC or in...

by Shivam Agrawal
Tag: aws
29-Aug-2016

DevOps, Technology

Creating And Importing IAM User to Opsworks

Opsworks is a wonderful SaaS tool provided by AWS which off-loads human driven tasks like managing own chef server, installing agents on each server, creating ssh user(s) even on run-time for the servers and various other benefits. In this blog an IAM User will be created without any CLI credentials, it will be registered with...

by Vaibhav Gulati
Tag: aws
01-Aug-2016