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Best Practices for User Management Models in AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives organizations the flexibility of using several different methods for managing user accounts. In this article, we will take a look at some of the best user account management practices and their potential pros and cons. The Ins and Outs of AWS Accounts AWS accounts provide comprehensive access to resources created [β¦]
Oct 7, 2016 Β· 3 minAll articles by Sudhi Seshachala
Showing 1β15Useful Big Data Terminologies, Part 1
As data continues to increase at an evermore rapid pace, organizations struggle to deal with this data torrent, let alone use it to analyze and capture value. The ways used to understand this big data also is increasingly rapidly, which introduces myriad terms used to define these methods. The follow is an attempt to provide [β¦]
Financial Drivers for Cloud Migration in Enterprise
Clouds are a vast pool of usable and manageable virtualized means such as development platforms, hardware and services. These assets can be animatedly reconfigured to adjust to a flexible load, which helps in the optimal utilization of resources. Your enterprise breathes through ITβto keep your business moving forward, you must modernize and be more flexible [β¦]
Bigdata β Understanding Hadoop and Its Ecosystem
It is quite interesting to envision how we could adopt the Hadoop eco system within the realms of DevOps. I will try to cover it in upcoming series. Hadoop managed by the Apache Foundation is a powerful open-source platform written in java that is capable of processing large amounts of heterogeneous data-sets at scale in [β¦]
Ansible Best Practices : Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management
What is Ansible? Ansible is an IT automation engine, and a trouble-free model-driven configuration management and command execution framework. Made for multi-tier deployments, it designs your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems are interrelated instead of just managing one system at a time. Written in Python, Ansible does not use any agent. [β¦]
Puppet: Best Practices
This is 4th part of the multi-part series covering Automation, provisioning and Configuration Management. In this article best practices for Puppet shall be covered. Puppet, one of the most well-liked configuration management tools, can also turn out to be complicated at times. In this post Iβm going to briefly go through a few practices that have [β¦]
Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management with PUPPET
This is 3rd part of the multi-part series covering Automation, provisioning and Configuration Management. In this follow up article best practices for Puppet shall be covered. Why Puppet? While every system administrator comes up with more progressive systems to be managed, the automation of every mundane task is increasingly significant. Instead of achieving in-house developed scripts, [β¦]
Chef best practices
Chef Best practices This article is the II part covering Chef. Please refer to Automation, Provisioning & Configuration Management (CHEF) for an introduction. As a matter of fact, Chef is truly an astounding tool. It keeps the cooking metaphor actively going. Following is the list of best practices that I would like to cover in the article: [β¦]
Automation, Provisioning & Configuration Management (CHEF)
Introduction Chef is an influential configuration management and automation platform that transmutes the complex infrastructure and helps you in describing your infrastructure with code, by bringing your servers and services to life. Since your infrastructure is controlled and managed with code, it can be automated, tested and reproduced with efficiency and ease. Chef automates the [β¦]
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Amazon has packed a box full of services and covered nearly every aspect in making cloud a smooth experience for developers to put up exceedingly operational and structurally complex applications on AWS. Large numbers of cloud-based systems feel the dire need of or dependency on sending out emails on a subscription basis to end users. But it is [β¦]
Optimize your spend on AWS through Reserved Instances
Over the last few years Amazon has gradually raised its compute capacity and provided the user with a set of advanced analytical and structural services. For each service, you can expand precisely for the amount of resources you actually need and shall pay for each resource usage at the end of each month. In the [β¦]
Copying Data From One Docker Container to Another
Docker containers can easily be compared to a directory. A Docker container holds everything that is required for an application to run including its dependencies and can be started, stopped, moved and deleted at will. When containers are activated they use Linux kernel namespaces. Each container operates in isolation from the server apart from networking [β¦]
AWS Key Management Service
Security of data and applications whether stored on-premises or in the cloud has always been a supreme issue of influence. To date AWS has provided itβs customers with services that help in securing and encrypting the data e.g., Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store(EBS) which is a server-side encryption service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS for [β¦]
AWS Best Practices β Enterprise Perspective
Amazon AWS has changed the IaaS game for startups and growth companies. There are several practices we must acknowledge the importance of during the adoption and implementation of AWS services. Readers are more than welcome to comment, suggest modifications and even add their own little practices they follow during roll outs and implementations. As clients [β¦]
Docker vs VMs
All applications have their own dependencies, which include both software and hardware resources. Docker containers bring numerous unknown tags to the chart as compared to existing technologies in use. In terms of technology, itβs quite interesting in scenarios where it helps in promoting cloud portability by running the same applications in different virtual environments. Docker [β¦]