Category: AWS

The need to automate Through the years web application development process changed many times. Over the last decade the need of automation of the development and deployment processes are more than recommended. This need demanded some platform to be developed that creates an easy to recreate steps of automated deployment. Many applications have been developed …

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In this post I’ll describe to you briefly the differences between AWS WorkSpaces and AWS AppStream 2.0. But first a short introduction of the two Amazon services and the use case in which the comparison will take place.   Use case We have a desktop application and we want to use it on the Internet …

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After finishing this part of our tutorial, our AWS resources will be connected with Chef server and will be able to self-configure. If you haven’t read previous parts, please check Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 before reading this part.   Hooking the Chef Client <powershell> (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($ChefMsiUrl, 'C:\\Windows\\Temp\\chef.msi') Start-Process msiexec.exe -Wait -ArgumentList '/I …

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In this step we are going to create and launch the Chef server. if you missed the previous step please check Part 1 and Part 2 Dealing with Chef automation requires some prerequisites beforehand. Head in AWS and go to OpsWorks page. Change the region if you need to. Click “Create Chef Automate server” and follow the on-screen …

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In part two if this tutorial we are going to focus on using Terraform to create our solution desired structure. By the end of this part, we will have a up and running VPC with the resources mentioned in the previous part. If you are not familiar with the project structure please refer to Part …

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The current blog series will walk you through working with AWS, Terraform and Chef. In this part in particular we are going to focus on project structure and prerequisites so we can start building our solution. It is assumed that the reader already have some knowledge in AWS resources. At the end of this tutorial …

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Deploying services without downtime n today’s SAAS world it is a common requirement to deploy applications or/and services without downtime. There’re various techniques and patterns that can be used to satisfy it, e.g. blue green deployment, as explained by Martin Fowler – The blue-green deployment approach does this by ensuring you have two production environments, …

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Introduction Monitoring proves to be a very important part of maintaining systems, services and applications on premise and in the cloud. It allows you to be aware of the current state of the monitored resources – whether it is reliable and its performance is good enough for your needs. The monitoring is more or less …

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