Aakash Garg

AWS, DevOps

Amazon ElasticSearch for Centralized Log Management

This blog is about using Amazon Elasticsearch with Amazon Cloudwatch. I had a use case where I have to make a setup for centralised logs, which can be done by using Amazon ElasticSearch and CloudWatch services. Pre-requisites: New Amazon Elasticsearch Instance can be setup from here. A new EC2 Instance with an attached role having...

26-Oct-2015

DevOps

Chef: Bootstrapping an autoscaled Node using Cloud-Init, Cloud-Config and UserData

This blog refers to the bootstrapping an autoscaled Node using Cloud-Init, Cloud-Config and UserData and get it available for serving requests. Here, in this blog I am bootstrapping a web server. We will be using a yaml file and a recipe to implement the same. What is Cloud-Init? Cloud-Init is the package which is already installed on...

01-Oct-2015

DevOps

Applying GROK Patterns in ELK

Recently, I worked on filters in Logstash using different tools like grok, date etc. Many of us find grok patterns complex to write, so here I am writing this blog to make writing grok patterns easier. Use Case I had a use-case in which I had to filter logs from catalina.out, but it was difficult to filter the logs as there is not fixed...

22-Sep-2015

AWS

AWS OpsWorks: PHP App Deployment using Git

AWS OpsWorks is a service which can be used to manage applications and can be used to operate applications of all shapes and sizes. In this blog we will discuss steps to automate a PHP app using AWS OpsWorks and Git. OpsWorks is an AWS service that can be used to automate the different kinds of app deployments. It is highly versatile as...

29-Jun-2015

AWS

Attach and Detach Elastic Load Balancers from Auto-Scaling Groups

Recently AWS started a new feature of attaching and detaching the Load Balancer in an Auto-Scaling Group. If we attach a load balancer to an auto-scaling group it allows the load balancer to send traffic to the EC2 instance in the group. And when we are detaching a load balancer from a group stops it from sending traffic. I have 2...

22-Jun-2015

AWS

Creating AMIs based on Tags

You must be wondering how to make AMI of the Web Server(EC2 instance) in which you have made some changes. In this blog I will walk you through a script that will ease up your work and make AMI of instances with user specified tags. Consider a use-case where user has made some changes to the Web Server and he wants to take AMI...

26-Mar-2015