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

Nuances of Riemann

Introduction

Riemann is a next generation Open-Source Push-Based monitoring system, which is designed to scale vertically and horizontally with the infrastructure, making it a good choice for monitoring elastic infrastructure. Riemann provides transient shared state for system with many moving parts. Riemann aggregates events from the servers and applications with a powerful stream processing language.   Continue reading

Boot2Docker for Windows

Development environment – It can take too long to set it up

Have you ever thought that how long does it take for an entry level developer to setup a new project development environment? The answer depends on many factors  like the project age, the number of developers worked on it etc. but don’t get surprised if you get answer half a day or more.

Hey! It should be much faster than that: checkout a script and execute it. That’s all. Two steps should be sufficient to setup your environment and get ready for development.

 

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