AWS, DevOps

Django Application Deployment

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that can help you get your Python application or website off the ground. It includes simple development server for testing the code locally, but in the production environment, a more secure and powerful web server is required. uWSGI is an application server container that aims to provide...

by Parag Gupta
Tag: devops
29-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Weave Scope – Monitoring, visualisation & management for Docker

Introduction of  Weave Scope Weave Scope is a monitoring tool and visualization for Kubernetes and Docker . It provides a deep level view of your app as well as of your full infrastructure, which allows you to find and diagnose any error in your distributed containerized app, in real-time. Weave Scope is use in standalone mode or...

by Shivam Agrawal
Tag: devops
29-Sep-2016

DevOps, Technology

Install and Configure SAR on Ubuntu

Monitoring servers are very important for every server administrator. There are some command line tools available to monitor server resource usages like top, vmstat, etc. Why ? SAR or sar provides almost all the resource usages reports which we get from many different tools at one place but more importantly is could keep...

by Nitin Bhadauria
Tag: devops
28-Sep-2016

DevOps, Technology

Integrating SonarQube with Jenkins

Recently, we got a requirement where Grails Development team needs to have a one-click interface to run units test cases for their Grails application and send the results to SonarQube. SonarQube is a web-based application which is used for centralized management of code quality. We decided to integrate it with Jenkins to provide...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: devops
28-Sep-2016

AWS, Big Data

What is Amazon Redshift and why you should definitely use it?

So you have spent some odd years of your software development career and now you know many of those RDBMS implementations in and out. In fact, you also already know that RDBMS is not the only enterprise storage and due to frequent scalability issues you encountered, someday you found about Big Data tools. Chances are you were...

by Ajay Sharma
Tag: devops
26-Sep-2016

DevOps, Technology

Using Commercial SSL Certificates on your Linux Apache Server

Refer this blog to get a basic understanding of using self-signed SSL certificates on your Apache server. Also, the above link will help you in generating a private key and a CSR (Certificate Signing Request), which contains information about your country, locality, company, your public key, etc.; for your server. For commercial...

by Vaibhav Gulati
Tag: devops
26-Sep-2016

AWS, DevOps

Configuring Rate-Based Blacklisting of IP’s using AWS WAF and AWS Lambda

One security challenge we face these days is how to prevent our web servers from DDOS attacks. This blog illustrates how we can automatically block unwanted traffic based on request rate by using AWS WAF and Lambda. This setup automatically detects traffic based on request rate, and then updates AWS WAF configurations to block...

by Shruti Lamba
Tag: devops
26-Sep-2016

Automation Testing, DevOps

Load Testing HLS Stream Using JMeter

  What is Video Streaming? Although highly unlikely, but if you are wondering the meaning of video streaming, it simply means that to play the online video, you won’t need to download the video completely. It offers you other advantages like you can jump directly to a section of the video and start playing it from there. As you...

by Raghu Sharma
Tag: devops
31-Aug-2016

AWS, DevOps

Control Jenkins Steps With Conditional BuildStep Plugin

If you look forward to Jenkins for most of your development operations then, at some point in time you might have felt the need of something which allows you to condition your steps. Of course, it is not such a good idea to create individual jobs each time you want to run and test specific build step/s. The solution is to use...

by Aakash Agarwal
Tag: devops
30-Aug-2016

DevOps, Technology

Getting started with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration tool for application containers developed by Google. It packages all of the necessary tools - orchestration, service discovery and load balancing in one place. Kubernetes is portable which means it can be deployed on public, private, hybrid along with multiple cloud platform providers. It is...

by Rakesh Mahajan
Tag: devops
30-Aug-2016

AWS, DevOps

Integration of AWS CodeDeploy with Jenkins

We have been working on a scenario where we want to automate testing, build, deploy and revert in one Jenkins job. Currently, we are using separate Jenkins jobs for testing, deploying and reverting the code changes. We would be automating these tasks using AWS CodeDeploy with Jenkins. Jenkins can provide us the functionality to run...

by Parag Gupta
Tag: devops
30-Aug-2016