The majority of modern businesses rely on cloud computing to scale infrastructure without heavy capital investment. Many choose Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its flexibility, scalability, and vast service ecosystem. However, while AWS offers powerful tools, organizations often face unexpected costs due to: Without proper monitoring, cloud costs can grow rapidly. This guide outlines practical strategies to reduce your AWS bill while maintaining performance and reliability. 1. Monitor Cost Changes in Real Time One of the most effective ways to control AWS spending is to detect cost spikes early. Use …
DevOps
GitLab for CI/CD
GitLab, as you know is a web-based DevOps tool that offers functionality to automate entire lifecycle spanning from planning to creation, build, verify, testing, deploying, etc. GitLab CI/CD is a built-in tool of GitLab that allows you to apply major methods of Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment etc to your software. Thus any third-party applications or integrations is not needed. This blog gives you an insight on GitLab CI/CD tool for continuous software development methodologies. (more…)
Terraform is the first multi-cloud immutable infrastructure tool that was created by HashiCorp. It was released three years ago and written in the Go programming language. Terraform is one of the simplest tools for infrastructure management and it uses a simple code for infrastructure management. Terraform can be used for both existing and custom in-house solutions. (more…)
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) defines a culture, a set of operating/manipulating principles, and collection of practices that allow application development teams to deliver code changes more regularly and in an accurate way.
What is OPENSHIFT? OpenShift is a PaaS. Basically saying OpenShift is a Cloud-Enabled Application Platform (CEAP). For those who are not sure anymore about PaaS, here is a quick reminder. Platform as a service (PaaS) or Application platform as a service (aPaaS) is a class of distributed computing administrations that gives a stage enabling the client to create, run, and oversee applications without the multifaceted nature of the building and keeping up the foundation commonly connected with creating and propelling an application. (more…)
Python
Python is a high-level general-purpose programming language, which is Interpreted, Interactive and Object-Oriented. The term object-oriented means it supports object-oriented programming approach to develop applications. Python file is saved as a .py extension. Python’s initial development was led by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s. (more…)
Capistrano is a remote server automation open-source tool written in Ruby that gives a set of advanced tools to deploy web applications to the servers. To perform the deploy functions Capistrano does not require any big set of additional applications; it just requires an ssh connection with a new user who has the permission to copy the code from the source control repository to the server and Ruby Gems, the package manager for the Ruby programming language.
AWS Cloudwatch
AWS Cloudwatch is an AWS monitoring tool that will help us to monitor the cloud resources. Also, it gives a detailed report for the cloud resource usage. Amazon CloudWatch has an open application programming interface (API) support with customized reports, notifications, and alarms. In Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee. It will be charged at the end of the month for what we use. Using cloudwatch, we can track the below metrics. AWS also provides access application logs and it allows to create alarms when the metrics reach …
AWS CodeDeploy is a deployment service that automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises instances. It helps us to deploy application content such as code, serverless AWS Lambda functions, web and configuration files, packages, scripts, multimedia files, and more. After deploying the application content on a server it is stored in Amazon S3 buckets, GitHub repositories, or Bitbucket repositories. It works with various systems for configuration management, source control, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. With AWS CodeDeploy, the following processes become easier. Rapidly …
AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) helps migrate VMware workloads to AWS. It minimizes downtime, uses agentless replication, supports incremental sync, and allows application testing before cutover. This AWS Server migration facilities provide simple services to migrate large-scale data from our on premises. AWS Migration Hub provides an individual location to track the growth of application migrations across multiple AWS and partner solutions. This allows choosing the AWS and partner migration tools that are suitable for the process. It also provides visibility into the status of migrations across the portfolio of …