Automation of AMI Creation Using Packer

Purpose

Infra/Devops team maintains a Golden Image (Base Image) which is a production ready base image with pre-installed required software like java,tomcat,nagios-client, default-system users. For security patch or software version update we have to keep updating the Base Image which requires manual AMI updation and creation process. Continue reading

Schedule Daily EC2 instance stop using CloudWatch Events

Purpose

Infra/Dev-ops team do have instance created for POC/Demo/testing purpose which we need to stop daily (office off-hours) or during weekends for cost saving purpose. As this adds an overhead for us to daily stop the instance manually before leaving office and sometimes we might forget to stop the instance which again will add up the cost.So there was a demand to automate this process in order to save cost. Continue reading