Ansistrano is one among several Ansible Galaxy roles for simply managing deployment requirements of scripting applications like PHP, Python, and Ruby. It is in real Ansible added to Capistrano or in other words a modification of Capistrano. Ansible Galaxy is the website where users can take, manage and share roles. It also provides a command-line interface for working on roles for the user. Why Ansistrano? Ansistrano, an Ansible role globally distributed through Ansible Galaxy. Deployment processes in scripting could be easily managed using ‘ansistrano.deploy’ and ‘ansistrano.rollback’, which are examples of …
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NSclient++ is an agent which can be used to monitor Windows devices. Using this agent we can monitor system metrics, services, and processes on the target machine using the Windows Server configuration Wizard. This agent must be installed on the target Windows Machine/Server. In this scenario, Nagios core is installed on a CentOS machine. Part A Please follow the steps below to install the agent. Windows Monitoring Agent installation: NSClient++ Log on to the Windows target server and download the latest version of NSClient++ software as per the system Architecture. …
A Network File System is a distributed file system protocol that supports remote hosts to mount file systems through the network and interact with the file systems as though they are mounted sectionally. This allows us to connect resources to centralized servers on the network. Amazon EFS-Elastic File System gives you a simple, scalable, and fully managed elastic NFS file system to use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. In this demonstration, we will show you how to configure a Network File System-NFS using AWS EFS and connect to …
This documentation will show you how to create an LVM partition on an AWS EBS volume. LVM is a storage virtualization technology that offers a flexible way to manage disk space. Using LVM we can have multiple virtual partitions on a physical volume or a single virtual partition over numerous physical volumes. 1. Deploy an EC2 instance Login to your AWS management console and search for EC2. On the EC2 dashboard, click Launch Instance to deploy a virtual machine. Provide an instance name and choose the OS image, key pair, …
Outsourced tech support is when you hire an external company to handle your business’s technical support. It is becoming increasingly popular among small to medium businesses as an affordable solution for their IT support needs. The benefits of outsourced tech support include reduced costs compared to hiring an in-house team, flexibility in scaling up or down as required, the opportunity to focus more on your business’s core functions, and access to up-to-date server technology and practices. Outsourcing Tech Support: Advantages As mentioned, the most significant advantage of outsourced tech support …
Heroku is a cloud service for hosting your applications. It is a Platform as a service with support for auto-scaling and deployment. It primarily uses Git for deploying applications. It is a cloud-based platform that provides application developers an environment ready to code, test and run an app without needing to worry about the infrastructure details. Heroku can currently deploy apps written in the following languages : Ruby Php Node.js Python …
AWS CodeBuild is a completely overseen persistent incorporation administration. You simply indicate the area of your source code, pick your construct settings, and CodeBuild will run manufacture contents for accumulating, testing, and bundling your code. There are no servers for provisioning and scaling purposes, or software for installation, configuration, and operation. Build Caching in CodeBuild A cache can store reusable bits of your build environment and use them over various build. By using a cache, you can save more time in the project build setup. AWS CodeBuild now enables you to store …
Squid Proxy is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Squid has a variety of uses and advantages such as speeding up web browsing for the end user, reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. It also can work as web filtering and can control the browsing traffic. Squid is based on the Harvest Cache Daemon developed in the early 1990’s. It was one of two forks from the codebase after the Harvest project ran to completion. In this …
Databases form root to all service sectors in this digital era. Facilities to manage these databases have taken different forms in the long run and have eventually reached up to the Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) age. DBMS (Database Management System) is mainly using for only retrieving data in a database. These Softwares include MySQL, Oracle Database, Microsoft Access, PostgreSQL, etc. Major hosting control panels like cPanel, Plesk, Direct Admins have inbuilt provision for above services. Further, maintaining a VPS or a dedicated server for each purpose remains a choice of the clients …
Data analysis is a difficult task, which has seen an attempt to make things simple, forever. Amazon Athena is a data analysis platform that allows you to perform complex queries in a short amount of time. It employs no servers, which makes the setup simple. It is not a database management system. As a result, you get charged for the queries you run. Simply point your data into S3, define the required schema, and you’re ready to go with a typical SQL query. An introduction to AWS Athena Amazon Athena …