Kubestack – GitOps for K8s using Terraform

Remember when DevOps was newly trending? The tech world has been putting a lot of effort to reduce the gap between Development and Operations. The core idea was to make developers and operations experts work in synergy. Organizations are reaping the benefits of DevOps in terms of team collaboration, a smarter way of working, and …

Vantage point for AWS landscape

Have you recently admired AWS cloud platform capabilities? Are you appealed by the pay-as-you-use pricing model? Are you looking forward to hosting your products and services on AWS? Then you should also be prepared to spend hours figuring out why you are paying that penny! Today AWS offers 200+ Managed IAAS services and each of …

PoC to Production Grade

https://open.spotify.com/episode/31dPmetPhosLeqhkI5eAra?si=MSmFmE4xTn-MkJxOESGbeQ Security is of utmost importance when hosting your production workloads into public cloud. It is one thing to host a non-critical web resource publicly, but it is altogether a different game when considering to host a production grade application on the internet. After all, what do we mean by production grade? And why is …

Achieving Operational Excellence in AWS

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Jec4Fj3bL4BctRqaxBjNn Category: AWS Well-Architected Framework Operational excellence is one of the pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework in which it suggests ways at various levels in an organization to achieve OpEx. OpEx essentially means running your operations in the most efficient ways. It could be application operations or platform operations.  Every organization defines its business objectives. …

How To Optimize AWS Cloud Costs?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1JwbcMFX9MAcu315z2CYe2 Category: AWS Well-Architected Framework Cloud providers like AWS have already made lives easy by taking all your infrastructure-related worries away. This comes at a cost, but it is still very cost-efficient. Moreover, talking about costs - just doesn't stop here. As they say, there is always scope for improvement. In this post, we take …

Why Do You Need Cloud Cost Optimization?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5exzXaX9S2ey9yTxORkiPL Category: AWS Well Architected Framework The title of the post could also be read as - “Why don’t you want to save money?”. Well there it is, the answer to the question, you may not even read further. However, if you are interested to know certain aspects of AWS Cloud Cost Optimization then this …

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling

Category: Compute One of the advantages of cloud people often talk about is - pay for what you use. AWS gives us the ability to deploy cloud resources for the time we need them and pay just for the period we used those resources. But in any given project, managing resources manually to scale up …

AWS CloudFront

Category: Networking Folks working in web development are familiar with CDNs - Content Delivery Networks. CDNs help in a way accelerate the delivery of static content like media, HTML, CSS, JSS files to end-users. This is a network of specialized servers called CDN servers. The network of CDN servers is called CDN. AWS CloudFront is …

AWS Route 53

Category: Networking Accessing anything on the internet is not as simple as typing a web address and hitting enter. Although you get the desired content in your browser in a fraction of a second, there is a lot that happens even before your actual request is served. The Internet is not magic, and it is …

AWS Config

Category: Monitoring AWS Config plays a major role while managing the compliance of your cloud infrastructure. It helps you keep track of all the configuration changes your infrastructure goes through over a period of time. AWS Config is capable of representing these changes in the form of a timeline. Compliance plays a huge role in …