1. Servers having a cPanel control panel ————————————- In the WHM console, click Backup Configuration, and scroll to the bottom looking for additional destinations. Select Amazon S3 in the Destination Type and Create a new destination. In the configuration page for this destination, give it a name and select the box that says transfer system backups to destination. (It says you should only do this if your connection is encrypted. Amazon S3 is an encrypted connection.) Enter the name of the bucket, Access Key ID, and Secret Access Key. (more…)
Technical Articles
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
By using Elastic Beanstalk we can easily manage applications in the AWS Cloud without affecting the infrastructure on the applications. With this, we can manage all of the resources that run on the application as environments. It will reduce the risks in managing applications without restricting choices and the control, as we can simply upload the applications and Beanstalk will automatically handle the load balancing, scaling, application health monitoring and capacity provisioning. Elastic Beanstalk supports applications developed in Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Once the application brings into effective action, Beanstalk provides one or more AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances. Beanstalk supports software stack on the Amazon EC2 instances as per the configuration on it. …
Stackify is a developer-friendly solution that helps developers to manage and troubleshoot application or coding issues with integrated monitoring and error logs. Along with the solutions to monitor and manage their applications’ performance, it also provides a cloud-based solution that provides insights about the application’s performance. In the industry, most of the application monitoring solutions are designed for IT infrastructure. But Stackify is purely designed for developers and it became trending as it combines application logging and code profiling together. It helps software developers in troubleshooting and provides support with a suite of implements including Prefix and Retrace. PREFIX A prefix is a free profiler for the .Net and Java applications built by Stackify. It runs on the developer’s workstation …
Munin
Monitoring our systems, networks and server’s performance and activity is one of the duller aspects of administration, and often something that is overlooked until there is a problem. Fortunately, there are many tools that can be used to monitor our system resources with differing levels of complexity and difficulty to configure. One of the simpler tools for getting the details for all the above can be simply derived from the monitoring tools called “Munin”, which is considered as one of the most flexible network resource monitoring systems available for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris.
Machine Learning
Machine learning is a variant of artificial intelligence (AI) that makes the systems for self-learning from the data enrolled without being specially programmed. ML aims at the improvement of computer programs that makes the systems to learn for themselves with the accessed data. The overall learning process initiates with observations from the data accessed such as searches, instructions to find out a particular data. The primary scenario is to allow computers to learn artificially to perform according to our needs. Machine learning is highly related to computational statistics, which aims at prediction-making through the use of computers.
AWS Load Balancer
A load balancer distributes incoming traffic toward multiple EC2 instances across different Availability Zones, increasing application fault tolerance. It detects unhealthy instances and routes traffic only to healthy targets. It automatically adjusts capacity as application traffic fluctuates, scaling to handle the vast majority of workloads without manual intervention. There are three types of load balancers supported: 1)Application Load Balancers 2) Network Load Balancers 3) Classic Load Balancers We can select a load balancer based on the application needs. Application Load Balancer An Application Load Balancer routes the traffic at the application layer (HTTP/HTTPS), it mainly supports path-based routing. And it routes requests to one or more ports on each container instance in the cluster. Application Load Balancers support dynamic host …
Puppet Configuration Management: Complete Guide to Nodes, Functions & Configuration Files
Managing modern IT infrastructure manually is time-consuming and prone to errors. As organizations scale, system administrators need reliable automation tools to maintain consistency across servers. Puppet is one of the most widely used open-source configuration management tools designed to automate system administration and infrastructure management. What is Puppet? Puppet is an open-source system management and automation platform used to centrally manage server configurations. It enables organizations to define infrastructure as code, ensuring systems remain consistent, secure, and properly configured over time. Configuration management refers to the process of documenting, controlling, and updating hardware and software settings across an enterprise environment. Puppet is written in Ruby and uses a declarative language that allows administrators to define the desired state of systems …
Ansible is open-source software that automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Ansible connects via SSH, remote PowerShell or via other remote APIs. You can use Ansible to automate three types of tasks: Provisioning: Set up the various servers you need in your infrastructure. Configuration management: Change the configuration of an application, OS, or device; start and stop services; install or update applications; implement a security policy; or perform a wide variety of other configuration tasks. Application deployment: Make DevOps easier by automating the deployment of internally developed applications to your production systems.
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. A data warehouse architecture consists of three tiers. The bottom tier of the architecture is the database server, where data is loaded and stored. The middle tier consists of the analytics engine that is used to access and analyze the data. The top tier is the front-end client that presents results via reporting, analysis, and data-mining tools.
AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that allows developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. One of the biggest advantages of AWS Lambda is its pay-as-you-go pricing model. You are charged only for the compute time your code actually consumes. When your code is not running, you are not billed, making it a cost-effective solution for many modern applications. Instead of maintaining infrastructure, you simply upload your code. AWS then handles running, scaling, and managing the execution environment. AWS Lambda is well suited for a wide range of application scenarios. Developers can write functions using supported programming languages such as Node.js, Java, Python, Go, and C#. Once deployed, these functions run within the AWS Lambda runtime environment. …