AWS, DevOps

User Mangement using CHEF and AWS OpsWorks

CHEF is the most popular configuration management tool in the market these days as CHEF turns infrastructure into code and you can do almost anything using it. Recipes are the heart of CHEF. OpsWorks has been gaining a lot of momentum for last few months, the major factor being its support for CHEF. So, in this blog we will be discussing...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
18-Oct-2015

AWS, DevOps

Monitoring your Docker containers using Ruxit

Docker monitoring is very important when it comes to using Docker. In my last blog, I talked about how we can monitor the status of a Docker container using a bash script and AWS CloudWatch. In this blog, I will be telling you how to get insights of your Docker container using a tool called Ruxit. Ruxit is a tool that I found as I...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
13-Oct-2015

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...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
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....

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
10-Oct-2015

AWS, DevOps

Unifying control of multiple AWS accounts by using AWS STS

Recently, we came across a scenario where we need to create AMIs of multiple production servers running in four different AWS accounts. One solution was to create an automation script to be run on an AWS EC2 instance running in each aws account which would create AMI of all production servers running in each account. This would have...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: aws
09-Oct-2015

AWS, Technology

AWS re:Invent 2015 – Day 2 @Las Vegas

Day 2 here in Vegas @ re-Invent started with an unimpeachable energy of 19000 ninjas with Keynotes of  Andy Jassy (SVP, Web Services @ Amazon). In 120 minutes, he gave the insight of new AWS growth metrics and made 12 announcements which include new services and features. New Services and Features Announcements ...

by Prashant Sharma
Tag: aws
09-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...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
08-Oct-2015

AWS, Technology

AWS re:Invent 2015 – Day 1 @Las Vegas

So, the big event has started and TO THE NEW is also taking part at AWS re:Invent 2015 annual conference this year again. This event is going to feature more than 250+ Technical session, Keynotes announcements, Partner expo, Hackathon and many more. A huge number of companies are here to showcase their product at Partner expo and...

by Prashant Sharma
Tag: aws
07-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...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
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...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
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...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
20-Aug-2015

Application Security, AWS

AWS Security practices demystified

We come across a lot of instances of Cloud based applications being hit by DDoS attacks. We must accept the fact that most of us are unaware of risks and protection methods available for DDoS protection in the cloud. This blog post emphasizes on understanding DDos attack and providing an approach to prevent unauthorized access and usage...

by Ankit Giri
Tag: aws
31-Jul-2015