DevOps, Technology

Introduction to AWS Inspector

AWS Inspector is an automated security assessment service which helps to improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS EC2 by identifying potential security issues, vulnerabilities, or deviations from security standards. Using Amazon Inspector, one can easily automate security testing across development, test,...

by Shruti Lamba
Tag: aws
28-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: aws
27-Jul-2016

AWS, Technology

Platform as a Service (PaaS) – Introduction

Platform as a service (PaaS) :  a cloud computing model which allows user to deliver applications over the Internet. In a this model, a cloud provider provides hardware ( like IaaS ) as well as software tools which  are usually needed for development of required Application to its users. The hardware and software tools are provided as a...

by Deepak Bansal
Tag: aws
25-Jul-2016

AWS, DevOps

Python Borrowing Resources using Fabric

In my previous blog post, I wrote about Cost Optimizations for the various AWS resources. The script consisted of six methods and the overall time required for the script to execute was roughly about 15-20 mins. While the script is running, it used to slow down my system. Also, there was a time consumption due to many reasons like...

by Aman Jain
Tag: aws
18-Jul-2016

AWS, DevOps

Using AWS Lambda Function for AutoScaling of ECS Containers

AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service using which you can perform actions by executing some set of code on any event. We are using a lambda function to trigger AWS ECS container auto-scaling that is executed on the SNS event. Below is the AWS Lambda code in node.js that will get Cluster Name, Service Name & Operator...

by Tejprakash Sharma
Tag: aws
30-Jun-2016

AWS, DevOps

6 Tips for AWS Cost Optimization

As we know AWS provides a good edge in terms of cost over the on-premises data center or in a co-location environment with its On Demand and Reserved pricing. As it is rightly said "Reducing the overall cost is a high priority" and it is true for any organization whether big or small. By using AWS we can lower the IT costs, compute...

by Aman Jain
Tag: aws
30-Jun-2016

AWS, DevOps

AWS Autoscaling group configured with ELB and Alarms in Boto (Python)

Autoscaling is a service in AWS, which is used to launch or terminate an instance based on user-defined policies, health checks, and schedules. There are several ways to configure an auto-scaling group in AWS, here we are focusing on implementing it in python using AWS python module boto. Before Creating  an Autoscaling Group ...

by Mayur Rastogi
Tag: aws
23-Jun-2016

AWS, DevOps

Utilizing AWS Ruby SDK to get AWS EC2 details in a CSV file

Over the years, Amazon has been integrating its web services with various programming languages to make it easier for developers to utilize various AWS resources effectively. It has made specific tools for popular programming languages like Ruby, Python, Java, .NET etc. Talking about Ruby, it is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented,...

by Vaibhav Gulati
Tag: aws
20-Jun-2016

AWS, DevOps

AWS CodeDeploy Automatic Rollback using AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a compute service where we can upload our code to AWS Lambda and the service can run the code on our behalf using AWS infrastructure. AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier to rapidly release new features, helps to avoid downtime during...

by Shruti Lamba
Tag: aws
08-Jun-2016

AWS, DevOps

Tweaking Logstash’s S3 plugin to create folders in YYYY/MM/DD format on AWS S3

Logstash is a service that accepts logs from a variety of systems, processes it and allows us to index it in Elasticsearch etc which can be visualised using Kibana. Our DevOps engineers have been using Logstash S3 plugin which simply puts all data in a S3 bucket location. Since we have configured files to be created in every hour on...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: aws
25-May-2016

DevOps

Daemonizing a Process in Linux

Most of the times when we need to run some Java, Node.js or python program in background, so it could stay running even after you leave console all we do is put "&" in the end of the command. $java -jar SimpleService.jar & The problem here is that when you leave the bash shell your process will become "Orphan" and it's up to...

by Nitin Bhadauria
Tag: aws
04-May-2016

AWS, DevOps

Take your pick: Build-driven Delivery or Image-driven Delivery?

In the recent past, software has seen a revolution of sorts. The emergence of Docker and the containerization paradigm has questioned the basis of some of the software delivery principles. The result? People are opting for things unheard of some two years back. What’s more, they are now using them successfully to deliver software faster...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws
30-Apr-2016