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 you are preparing for a Devops role, having the right resources with you saves a lot of time. It’s important to not waste time going through useless content. I have prepared a list of useful content that can really…
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…
If/Else statement in Terraform is much more powerful than you think. In this blog, I will explain how to use the If/Else conditional statement in Terraform effectively. There are two opinions when it comes to the If/Else statement in Terraform…
Setting up a custom development environment on google cloud workstation with Terraform Having your development IDE in the cloud where your applications run makes much more sense for speed, security, and flexibility. Read – Why you should switch to remote…
In this blog, I will talk about gcpdiag, an open-source command line tool by google cloud to identify cloud misconfigurations in google cloud projects. Introducing gcpdiag, Google Cloud approach towards troubleshooting as code. According to Gartner survey, until 2025, upto…
In recent years Terraform has become a well-known name in the cloud community and Knowing terraform is a primary requirement for most of the devops jobs these days. It certainly helps if you are a terraform certified professional. What is…
“Your resume is your first impression in front of recruiters. You don’t want to give a vague idea of yourself just because you were too lazy to put enough effort into your resume.” I take a lot of interviews and…
I worked in the IT industry for 9+ years as a Production support engineer, working with Linux and Aix. I was desperately looking for an escape.I decided to switch to devops as it felt promising. I reached out to a…