Ranvijay Jamwal

Ranvijay is a lead DevOps Engineer, accredited technical certified professional who has excellent ability to develop & implement technical solutions for any size of business and believes in learning each day. He is a charismatic and cheerful person who loves Linux shell scripting. Ranvijay believes that cloud and container technologies will bring about a revolution. He is also a Microsoft Certified Technology Associate. Besides he is a hardcore cricket fan, who has played state level matches and also loves singing and writing.

AWS, DevOps

Migrate PostgreSQL on Linux server to AWS PostgreSQL RDS using Londiste (Skytools 2)

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 to RDS...

12-Oct-2015

AWS, DevOps

Grouping together my metrics using AWS CloudWatch Dashboards

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 custom Dashboards....

10-Oct-2015

AWS, DevOps

Protect WordPress login using AWS WAF – Web Application Firewall

AWS re:Invent has already begun and keeping in mind security of your applications in the cloud, AWS has launched a new service called AWS Web Application Firewall. This service is intended to secure what you share on the world wide web via AWS CloudFront. Making the experience for the user better with more security is what AWS has always...

08-Oct-2015

AWS, DevOps

Monitoring Docker container status using AWS CloudWatch

There are no such tools till now to monitor whether your Docker container is running or not. Now, I had a Docker container running in production and I could not afford not knowing whenever it went down or rather stopped. So, I decided to do something about it. The blog is about the same. What we will be doing is checking whether the...

29-Sep-2015

AWS, DevOps

Docker containers and AWS Auto-scaling – Hand in Hand

In my previous blog, I talked about setting up sendmail inside a Docker container. In this blog, we will talk about how to make your Docker containers come up during Auto-scaling of AWS servers, start, and use a service like sendmail inside them. You can make changes to scripts based on your use-case. I just want to make the logic...

14-Sep-2015

AWS, DevOps

Setting up Sendmail inside your Docker container

In my last blog, we talked about setting up a WordPress site on Docker. I hope you all are now clear on how Docker works & how you can set up your own PHP applications on it. In this blog, we will be talking about how to send emails from your Docker container. My use-case was that, I had a PHP application running inside a Docker...

20-Aug-2015

AWS, Technology

PHP and Nginx monitoring using DATADOG

Continuing with my previous blog on Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring with Datadog,  we would now be monitoring the application level with Datadog. My use-case was that I needed to monitor my PHP application, get deeper insights for it and also monitor the various Nginx metrics. So, I decided to try out Datadog Monitoring tool. In this...

05-Aug-2015

AWS, DevOps

AWS CodeCommit

AWS has recently launched a new service which is now available generally. AWS CodeCommit is the service we would be talking briefly about in this blog. AWS CodeCommit hosts private Git repositories. You can Store code & any other type of file with AWS CodeCommit. It follows Git standards & can be used with other  tools for...

25-Jul-2015

AWS, Grails

Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Using Datadog

Infrastructure monitoring in the cloud is the topmost priority for any application running in the cloud. This includes monitoring the web servers, databases, applications & various tools being used. Datadog not only provides monitoring but also has alerts integrated so that you get notified for certain type of issues which occur. For...

29-Jun-2015

AWS

WordPress Site via Docker using Data Container

Docker has gained a lot of attention these days. The main reasons which we know of are that it saves a lot of resources & one can have n number of environments within one server/machine. It being platform independent, is one more plus point for using docker & hence is one of the fastest growing technologies. In this blog we...

18-Jun-2015

AWS

AWS Elastic Beanstalk ( PHP Application )

In continuation to my previous Blog on Elastic Beanstalk (Grails Application) , I would now tell you how to deploy a PHP application via Elastic Beanstalk. So, again, we will quickly go through what AWS Elastic Beanstalk does. It is deploying your application in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure & making your...

16-Jun-2015

AWS, Grails

AWS Elastic Beanstalk ( Grails Application )

Ever wondered what to do if you have to make a very quick deployment of an application on the AWS Cloud ? You would launch servers, make an infrastructure and then Install applications which is somewhat a tedious process. How would it sound if the deployments are made in seconds ? Here is an AWS service for all the developers and the...

03-Jun-2015