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Cluster Level Logging in Kubernetes

Posted on October 26, 2019

Published on: June 10, 2018 | Last updated on: June 10, 2018

| Author:

Sushil Verma (Linkedin, Twitter, Git)

Cluster Level Logging in Kubernetes

Using a node logging agent

Application and system logs can help you understand what is happening inside your cluster. The logs are useful for debugging problems and monitoring application and cluster activities.

The easiest and most embraced logging method for containerized applications is to write to the standard output and standard error streams.

However, the default functionality provided by a container engine or runtime is usually not enough for a complete logging solution. For example, if a container crashes Read more

AWS Lambda – Copy more than 5 EC2 Snapshots automatically between regions

Posted on June 6, 2018

Published on: June 06, 2018 | Last updated on: June 06, 2018

| Author:

Pooja Verma (Git, Twitter)

AWS Lambda - Copy more than 5 EC2 Snapshots automatically between regions

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Copying EC2 snapshot between regions is quite an easy task now. In some scenarios, we may have to copy more than 5 snapshots automatically without any human entration.

Snapshot copy operation has a limitation of copying max 5 snapshots at one time. Hence you can not copy more than 5 snapshots at a time.

Following are the steps to automate to copy more than 5 Snapshots.

Let's say, we have around 50 snapshots in a region, and you want to automate to copying all Snapshots to another region on AWS.

Step 1: Create a tag in all 50 Snapshots Read more

AWS Lambda – Copy EC2 Snapshot automatically between regions

Posted on May 28, 2018

Published on: May 28, 2018 | Last updated on: May 28, 2018

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Pooja Verma (Git, Twitter)

AWS Lambda - Copy EC2 Snapshot automatically between regions

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There are many ways to copy EC2 snapshot from one region to another region.

What is AWS Lamda function?

AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS Lambda executes your code only when needed and scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second.

Following is the code to copy EC2 snapshots using AWS Lamda from region one to region two.

Below AWS Lamda function will describe all EC2 snapshots, which has tag key as city, and copy all snapshots from US East (N. Virginia) - [us-east-1] to Asia Pacific (Singapore) [ap-southeast-1] region. Read more

Jenkins installation

Posted on December 13, 2017

Published on: Dec 23, 2017 | Last updated on: Dec 23, 2017

| Author:

Sushil Verma (Linkedin, Twitter, Git)

Jenkins installation

In this article, I will guide you through the installation process of Jenkins CI tool. The guide and steps on this page are for new installations of Jenkins on a single/local machine.

Jenkins Installation

Jenkins is typically run as a standalone application in its own process with the built-in Java servlet container/application server (Jetty).

Jenkins can be installed on different platforms like Linux, Windows, and Mac through manual or using Docker images. Read more

Using IBM Bluemix CLI

Posted on September 12, 2017

Published on: Sept 12, 2017 | Last updated on: Sept 12, 2017

| Author:

Sushil Verma (Linkedin, Twitter, Git)

Using IBM Bluemix CLI

Bitcoin

What is IBM Bluemix CLI?

IBM Bluemix is a cloud-based platform for building, managinf, and running all types of apps, such as web, mobile, big data, and smart devices.

Bluemix platform provides Command Line Interface (CLI) to interact with your apps, virtual servers, and containers. You can navigate to Bluemix Region, Organization, Spaces etc using CLI and work on specific app or service.. Read more

What is Test Driven Development (TDD)?

Posted on September 10, 2017

Published on: Sept 10, 2017 | Last updated on: Sept 10, 2017

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Sushil Verma (Linkedin, Twitter, Git)

What is Test Driven Development (TDD)?

Test Driven Development

Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the software is improved to pass the new tests, only.

In Test Driven Development (TDD) test codes are written, before writing the bare minimum source code required for the test to be fulfilled... Read more

What is Bitcoin?

Posted on June 3, 2017

Published on: June 03, 2017 | Last updated on: June 03, 2017

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Sushil Verma (Linkedin, Twitter, Git)

What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. No one controls it. Bitcoins aren’t printed, like dollars or euros – they’re produced by people, and increasingly businesses, running computers all around the world, using software that solves mathematical problems.

It’s the first example of a growing category of money known as cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin can be used to buy things electronically. In that sense, it’s like conventional dollars, euros, or yen, which are also traded digitally. Read more

IBM Cloud Bluemix – Platform as a Service (PaaS) for beginners!

Posted on April 18, 2017

Published on: April 18, 2017 | Last updated on: May 23, 2017

| Author:

Sushil Verma (Linkedin, Twitter, Git)

IBM Bluemix - Platform as a Service (PaaS) for beginners!

IBM Bluemix ™

In this blog, I will take you through the basics of Platforma as a Service (PaaS), and explain some key features of IBM Bluemix which is a Platform as a Service offering from IBM.

This blog can be considered as ‘Bluemix for beginners’. The idea is to explain basic of Bluemix to beginners or layman.

Before entering into Bluemix, I would like to distinguish what is the difference between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and PaaS. Read more

How to setup Amazon EC2?

Posted on November 21, 2016

After you have already signed up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can start using Amazon EC2 immediatelty. You can open the Amazon EC2 console, click Lunch Instance, and follow the below steps in the launch wizard to launch your first instance Read more..