AWS Lambda Automated Deployment

Objective

This blog details the steps to build, deploy and maintain different versions of Lambda functions across various product stages such as development, testing, staging and production on multiple AWS accounts.

Go ServerLess with Firebase cloud functions

With announcement of cloud functions beta at Google cloud next 2017 event, Google has added one of the highly requested features in the firebase suite. This is one major step from Google in making firebase serverless. In this post, we will see some of the capabilities, pros and cons, setup and deployment of firebase cloud functions. Google IO is just days away and knowing about firebase is surely going to help in understanding the upcoming firebase features.

CLOUD GIANTS RACE :AWS vs AZURE vs GOOGLE CLOUD

The more we travel in time, towards future, cloud computing keeps on captivating us with its mysterious enticing.The competition is heating up in the public cloud space as vendors regularly drop prices and offer new features.I will shine a light on the competition between the three giants of the cloud:Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft’s Azure.  

One-Click Deployment with AWS CodeDeploy

AWS CodeDeploy is a deployment system that enables developers to automate the deployment of applications on EC2 instances  and to update the applications as required.

You can deploy a nearly unlimited variety of application content, such as code, web and configuration files, executables, packages, scripts, multimedia files, and so on. AWS CodeDeploy can deploy application content stored in Amazon S3 buckets, GitHub repositories, or Bitbucket repositories. You do not need to make changes to your existing code before you can use AWS CodeDeploy.

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.