Have you ever wanted to automate Docker container deployment on an EC2 instance. That was exactly what I wanted to do last week and instead of doing it the old-fashioned way with SSH and manual scripts, I decided to automate it using Ansible and run it through GitHub Actions (CI/CD). The result? A super clean…
If you’ve been managing your Terraform state in AWS S3, you’ve probably been using DynamoDB to enable state locking. Well, here’s some great news: Terraform 1.10 lets you ditch DynamoDB and handle state locking directly in S3! No extra tables, no extra costs, and no more unnecessary complexity. So, how does it work? Let me…
Imagine a scenario where you might prefer to provision the resources manually in Cloud because it’s quick and easy. Maybe you needed a Cloud resource such as security group in a hurry, or someone on the team just created it without thinking about Terraform. Fast forward a few weeks, and now you’ve ended with a…
In this article, I will guide you with the steps on how to provision an instance (VM) in AWS Cloud by using Terraform code and a CICD pipeline that is GitHub Action. But before proceeding further, let me give you a brief overview of Terraform and GitHub Action. Terraform Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure…
As a Linux System Admin, we have come across such requirement multiple times for Vertical scaling of Linux VMs in VMware infrastructure. Vertical scaling means adding of additional resources like CPU, memory, Storage to server or VM for increasing its capacity to address more load of Application or DB hosted on Linux VM but what…
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service which monitor AWS resources on Cloud. It comes with dozen of monitoring metrics which ease Cloud Admin to use them in monitoring their AWS Infrastructure services resources like Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 Cloud Storage, Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) on Cloud etc. It collects monitoring and operational data…
I was using t2 micro instance for my WordPress website for one year on trial basis as most of you might know AWS provide 750 hours/month free tier usage of its t2 micro instance for a year. But as year passed my instance usage reached high and its trial usage also reached to finish. Due…
AWS Amazon S3 is a Simple Cloud object storage solution provided by Amazon. Have a look below what Amazon write and say about S3: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it…
Multi-Factor authentication (MFA) is an extra layer of security, it is a combination of more then one credentials which authenticates the user example combination of user password with security token (software or hardware based), using of biomatric verification for authenticating the user credentials. By adding extra layer in security it make difficult for unauthorised person…
By Launching of Red Hat OpenShift online in year 2011 Red Hat has revolutionize the Cloud platform as a service (PaaS) products since then. Red Hat OpenShift Online or RHOO gives platform to develop cloud-native application on PaaS to developers. It has hosted more than three million applications built by hundreds of thousands of individual…
