Excursions

2023-07-19

If your infrastructure has been deployed and maintained as code, chances are that you might be using Terraform or CloudFormation.In those cases most probably the enforcement of policies is after thought or takes backseat.

2022-11-09

Track CloudFormation Stack Changes Using EventBridge

If you are handling your infrastructure as code using CloudFormation stacks and is managed by multiple users, you could have run into a scenario where one of them might have run the stack or modified the stack and no one is aware of change. To track and get alert on those scenarios we now have support for CloudFormation events in the EventBridge which can be piped to SNS or custom alert system.

2022-04-16

Classic Load Balancer migration to ALB

AWS EC2 Classic have already been retired and the official deadline for migration is coming up.

2022-02-02

Simple Ansible playbook to get the Linux host uptime

While working with EC2 Linux instances there could be a requirement to get the list of all the machines which had not been rebooted over months or for a particular number of days.The reason could be for audit or to the check the status of instances.

2021-12-20

Mitigating file system failures on root EBS volume

Below scenario explains the troubleshooting steps to get the EC2 recovered from EBS boot failiures.

2021-03-28

Python sample script to fetch data from Jenkins API

While working with Jenkins,there was a requirement to collect details of the Jobs/builds that had been run on the Server and derive statistics like

2021-01-21

Voila:Host your Jupyter Notebook as webpage

Scenario: As a continuation from previous post here where users have to access a Jupyter Notebook to browse the files,we now have to create a website/webpage to have seamless experience hiding the code and notebook interface.

2020-12-07

Browse and download S3 files with out public access to Bucket

Scenario: Users have to access and download files from a S3 bucket but not upload or change the contents of the same.

2020-11-08

Managing EC2 AMI used in ECS clusters

People using EC2 backed ECS cluster can understand the pain which goes in to maintaining and patching the base machines running our ECS containers.We usually pick two paths

2020-10-20

Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure →

We’ll provide a high-level overview of three common blueprints here. We start with the blueprint for modern business intelligence, which focuses on cloud-native data warehouses and analytics use cases. In the second blueprint, we look at multimodal data processing, covering both analytic and operational use cases built around the data lake. In the final blueprint, we zoom into operational systems and the emerging components of the AI and ML stack.

Interesting post on how the architectures are going to evolve