Financial Drivers for Cloud Migration in Enterprise

June 28, 2016 by Sudhi Seshachala 2 Comments

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 IT—to keep your business moving forward, you must modernize and be more flexible […]

Bigdata – Understanding Hadoop and Its Ecosystem

June 1, 2015 by Sudhi Seshachala 5 Comments

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 […]

Ansible Best Practices : Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management

May 19, 2015 by Sudhi Seshachala 4 Comments

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. […]

Puppet: Best Practices

May 7, 2015 by Sudhi Seshachala 1 Comments

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 I’m going to briefly go through a few practices that have […]

Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management with PUPPET

April 16, 2015 by Sudhi Seshachala 1 Comments

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, […]

Chef best practices

March 25, 2015 by Sudhi Seshachala 0 Comments

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: […]

Automation, Provisioning & Configuration Management (CHEF)

March 16, 2015 by Sudhi Seshachala 0 Comments

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 […]

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

March 2, 2015 by Sudhi Seshachala 0 Comments

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 […]