AWS, DevOps

Configuring Rate-Based Blacklisting of IP’s using AWS WAF and AWS Lambda

One security challenge we face these days is how to prevent our web servers from DDOS attacks. This blog illustrates how we can automatically block unwanted traffic based on request rate by using AWS WAF and Lambda. This setup automatically detects traffic based on request rate, and then updates AWS WAF configurations to block...

by Shruti Lamba
Tag: devops
26-Sep-2016

Automation Testing, DevOps

Load Testing HLS Stream Using JMeter

  What is Video Streaming? Although highly unlikely, but if you are wondering the meaning of video streaming, it simply means that to play the online video, you won’t need to download the video completely. It offers you other advantages like you can jump directly to a section of the video and start playing it from there. As you...

by Raghu Sharma
Tag: devops
31-Aug-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: devops
30-Aug-2016

DevOps, Technology

Getting started with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration tool for application containers developed by Google. It packages all of the necessary tools - orchestration, service discovery and load balancing in one place. Kubernetes is portable which means it can be deployed on public, private, hybrid along with multiple cloud platform providers. It is...

by Rakesh Mahajan
Tag: devops
30-Aug-2016

AWS, DevOps

Integration of AWS CodeDeploy with Jenkins

We have been working on a scenario where we want to automate testing, build, deploy and revert in one Jenkins job. Currently, we are using separate Jenkins jobs for testing, deploying and reverting the code changes. We would be automating these tasks using AWS CodeDeploy with Jenkins. Jenkins can provide us the functionality to run...

by Parag Gupta
Tag: devops
30-Aug-2016

AWS, DevOps

Jenkins Google Authentication

In Jenkins by default user authentication is not enabled but we can establish the user authentication from the Global Security section. We have to create users for team members and it maintains all user in its own database. But we can also configure Jenkins with Google oAuth. So, if you are leveraging Google services and already have...

by Rajdeep Singh
Tag: devops
26-Aug-2016

DevOps, Technology

8 Reasons to Move to Docker Swarm

What is Docker Swarm: Docker Swarm is the orchestration tool from the makers of Docker. In the words of Docker website itself, "Docker Swarm provides native clustering capabilities to turn a group of Docker engines into a single, virtual Docker Engine." In case you are unfamiliar with what Docker is, you can read my previous post...

by Raghu Sharma
Tag: devops
31-Jul-2016

DevOps, Technology

Empower Vagrant with Chef

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...

by Rajdeep Singh
Tag: devops
31-Jul-2016

DevOps, Technology

Master-Slave Load Testing using Locust

In the previous blog we have discussed what is locust , why we use locust for load testing and how to implement it. So if you are wondering what locust is and how it works or for a better understanding, see locust .Now in this blog we are here to discuss about running locust in distributive way. For a single machine it is not enough...

by Mayur Rastogi
Tag: devops
27-Jul-2016

Agile, AWS

CloudFoundry PaaS – Introduction

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...

by Deepak Bansal
Tag: devops
27-Jul-2016