When anyone talks about DevOps, CICD is the first word that comes to mind. CICD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (or Delivery). It’s like having a super-efficient assembly line for your software just like car manufacturers have been…
Docker revolutionized how we run applications by packing the application with the platform dependencies as containers. While Docker is great for individual containers, real-world applications often require multiple containers working together, such as a web server, a database, and an…
If you are new to using Terraform on AWS, then this blog post will show you how to use Terraform to deploy a 3-tier architecture. Scenario: A three–tier architecture on AWS Creating a three–tier architecture on AWS involves setting up three…
Accessing Amazon S3 privately enhances security, improves performance, reduces costs, ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, simplifies network architecture, and provides reliable and managed connectivity. This approach is particularly beneficial for workloads that require secure, high-performance, and cost-effective access to S3.…
The purpose of this blog post is to build a real-world DevOps automation project using Python, AWS Lambda, and Terraform. If you are someone interested in learning/building a cool DevOps project this is for you. DevOps real-world AWS Lambda automation…
Have you ever wondered how LinkedIn handles millions of blog posts? Or how Spotify keeps track of your endless playlists? Behind all these apps is a simple concept called CRUD — Create, Read, Update, Delete. In this blog post, I will show…
A Complete Guide to Using pgsync for Live Postgres Migration People have been using pg-dump/pg_restore to migrate the Postgres database for ages. While these tools are reliable and widely used, they have several limitations. Introducing pgsync, a modern and efficient…
Are you one of those who find writing Dockerfiles, and docker-compose.yml files painful? At least I never enjoyed it. I always wondered if I was following the best practices, and not introducing security vulnerabilities unknowingly while writing the Dockerfile , docker-compose…
Managing the AWS Lambda Layer Was a Nightmare Until I Did This I started my Devops career with the Google Cloud platform and used Cloud functions for event-driven serverless workloads. It was pretty straightforward — package the Python code with its dependencies, i.e.…
Python Automation That Saved Our Client $1000/Month On Cloud Bills I was working on a project to reduce cloud costs across multiple AWS accounts. We discovered many RDS Postgres databases were over-provisioned, wasting terabytes of storage. AWS doesn’t let you simply…
What to expect from this blog post? In this blog post, I will discuss a little bit about Docker before diving deep into details instructions on using Docker in your Devops workflow. I will explain about running Docker containers, Docker networking,…
When preparing for a DevOps role, having the right resources saves time. It’s important not to waste time going through useless content. I have prepared a list of useful content that can help you learn and help you with your…
In Terraform, functions serve as building blocks for manipulating and transforming data within your configuration files. They add a programmability element to an otherwise declarative language. When I first started with Terraform to write configuration to deploy infrastructure on AWS…
In this blog, I will explain the concepts around Single sign-on (SSO) and walk through the complete process of setting up AWS SSO with OKTA in AWS and OKTA console. In the Next blog post, I will set up the…
Terraform stands out as a powerful tool for managing and provisioning cloud resources. However, as your infrastructure grows more complex, you might find yourself repeating code blocks, leading to verbose and hard-to-maintain configurations. To address this, Terraform offers a dynamic…
When I first started with Terraform to write configuration to deploy infrastructure on AWS and GCP, I did not know how powerful Terraform is. I wrote configuration code like an armature — repeated code blocks, hardcoded values, and bloated and inflexible infrastructure…
When I first started writing Terraform, I was terrible at it. I found myself drowning in a sea of repetitive blocks, each stuffed with hardcoded values. A simple change required me to update my code at multiple places, and the…
Terraform is the most popular and widely used Infrastructure as a code tool out there, irrespective of the cloud platform. It has become the synonym for IAC. All credit goes to Hashicorp people who saw a need to have a…
If you go back two decades, everyone used those physical servers (produced by IBM, HP, and Cisco) which took weeks to setup correctly before we could run the applications on them. Then came the time of virtualization, Sharing computing resources…
When working on the Google Cloud Platform, we often need to list all the google cloud projects under the organization. This can be easily done using GCP resource manager and Python. In this blog post, I will walk through the…