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: devops
14-Oct-2016

AWS, DevOps

Docker Swarm Multi-Manager Setup

Docker Swarm has gained a lot of popularity in the last few months. It is Docker's orchestration tool. Docker has been coming up with a lot of updates and Docker Swarm is very stable as compared to when it was launched. It is as Docker says "Production Ready." You can go through the blog written by my colleague on how to setup Docker...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: devops
13-Oct-2016

Application Security, AWS

Security Best Practices

Security Best Practices More and more organizations today realize how important it is to manage security of their websites and applications on cloud or on-premise datacenters. Organizations are rapidly adopting Hybrid Cloud models in which managing security is of paramount importance. In order to cater to rapidly changing business...

by Shakti Singh Rathore
Tag: devops
10-Oct-2016

DevOps, Technology

Mounting Google Drive in Linux

Google Drive is an indispensable part of our life nowadays. From sharing almost every type of file to anyone/anywhere around the world has reduced our cost and time tremendously from self-hosting an FTP server and taking care of its security. From DevOps perspective, it becomes even more convenient if we could have our google...

by Vaibhav Gulati
Tag: devops
03-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: devops
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: devops
30-Sep-2016

DevOps, Technology

Caching with Nginx

What is caching and why it is required? Caching means storing information locally or in the memory for faster communication between our web browser and web server. It improves the response time of web page and improves the availability as a backup if an origin server failed. Benefits of caching includes: Improved site...

by Nitesh Agarwal
Tag: devops
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: devops
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: devops
30-Sep-2016

DevOps, Technology

Basics of IPTables

Linux is the most-used open source operating system. Managing network traffic is one of the toughest jobs to deal with.  For this, we must configure the firewall in such a way that it meets the system and users requirements without leaving the system vulnerable. The default firewall in most of the Linux distributions is IPTables. ...

by Anup Yadav
Tag: devops
30-Sep-2016

Agile, DevOps

Make your Digital Business Agile for Today’s Customer

Today’s digitally evolving customers demand highly seamless interaction and instant access to information. Think of a scenario, when you have built an outstanding product and have invested in several marketing campaigns. You get the best sales team onboard who are eagerly waiting to see their inboxes getting bombarded with leads and...

by Ankit Gupta
Tag: devops
30-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Create Extended EBS Backed LVM Volume on EC2

Sharing one of my use-cases, Jenkins has been increasing  over past few weeks, and we were about to hit the 50GB capping for Elastic Block Storage volumes on the Amazon EC2. And this is a problem that is affecting a lot of our team developers to test their build packages on the different environments. But, every time we have to increase...

by Ankit Kumar
Tag: devops
29-Sep-2016