What more can you do with Ansible AWX?
What more can you do with Ansible AWX?
In my last blog, I discussed how you could set up autoscaling infrastructure using Ansible AWX for AWS autoscaling group configuration and deployment. You can use this to update your existing autoscaling groups as well without touching user data. In this blog post, I will mainly focus on what value you can add with Ansible AWX and how it can help you to manage your infrastructure in better ways.
Adios 2017 welcome 2018 - Opcito’s year in review
Adios 2017 welcome 2018 - Opcito’s Year in Review
2017 is behind us, and we all are welcoming 2018 with lots of joy, enthusiasm, and hope. 2017 was a great year for automation. We saw major releases from some of the biggest contributors and new products and services from the tech giants in the CloudOps, TestOps, ContainerOps, and DevOps areas. This included 4 new releases from orchestration experts Kubernetes, Prometheus 2.0, Moby, and Linuxkit from Docker, Kata containers from OpenStack, Heptio Ark, RBAC, Angular 4, React JS, etc.
An Early Christmas Present for Kubenauts - Kubernetes 1.9
An Early Christmas Present for Kubenauts - Kubernetes 1.9
Kubernetes 1.9 is here! This is the fourth and final release of Kubernetes this year. Without further ado, let's look at what the Elves have delivered in 1.9 as an early Christmas present to all of us!
OpenStack Foundation Embraces Containers with “Kata Containers”
OpenStack Foundation Embraces Containers with “Kata Containers”
On Dec. 5, when the enthusiastic container community was getting ready for KubeCon, the OpenStack Foundation renewed its long-standing friendship with the announcement of a new effort called Kata Containers with the goal of unifying the speed and manageability of containers with the security advantages of virtual machines (VMs).
From the CEO’s Desk: What do the re:Invent 2017 releases mean to your DevOps?
What do the re:Invent 2017 releases mean to your DevOps?
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” is one of the most famous taglines used in modern times to brand or market a city, especially from the tourism perspective. Luckily though, this doesn’t hold true when it comes to AWS re:Invent as whatever happens in Vegas in these 5 days changes the whole cloud and related services market, and this year was no exception.
Provisioning an Autoscaling Infrastructure using Ansible AWX
Provisioning an Autoscaling Infrastructure using Ansible AWX
In the current application era, continuous application availability and zero downtimes are the most tempting things, and if you have a SaaS-based product, it’s very important to keep your infrastructure up and running with healthy services all the time. AWS autoscaling helps people to achieve this, and this is probably the reason that we have seen a number of people using it nowadays. But the biggest challenge in using an autoscaled environment is provisioning scaled infrastructure.
From the CEO’s Desk: DevOps Maturity Assessment - A Navigator on your DevOps Journey
DevOps Maturity Assessment - A Navigator on your DevOps Journey
DevOps is a conventional term now, and a lot has been talked about, planned, and brought into practice around DevOps. No need to mention the mammoth tools and technologies around DevOps. DevOps is a practice with the end goal of unifying efforts of development(Dev) and operations(Ops) teams to facilitate the software development process with much more efficient resource utilization, better performance, and increased productivity.
Continuous Improvement in Monitoring with Prometheus 2.0
Continuous Improvement in Monitoring with Prometheus 2.0
Monitoring is the backbone of any good production environment. The Prometheus monitoring system, a project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has rapidly gained popularity for containerized infrastructure and application monitoring alike, and it's taking its next step forward.
Complex Infrastructure Management with Terraform and Bash Script as Wrapper
Complex Infrastructure Management with Terraform and Bash Script as Wrapper
Writing infrastructure-as-code for an environment having a variety and number of cloud resources would be the most crucial job in infrastructure automation. For such complex environments, it becomes necessary to have infrastructure-as-code readable and flexible. This facilitates understanding the infrastructure quickly. Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code software by Hashicorp which provides users a systematic way to define infrastructure configuration and execute in a desirable way.
From the CEO’s Desk: Azure Container Service - Containerization Simplified
Azure Container Service - Containerization Simplified
Almost eight years ago, Microsoft started with Azure Cloud. In broad terms, Azure provides services around IaaS and PaaS, from computing, storage, and networking to databases, security and management, integration, analytics and IoT, AI, monitoring and management, web and mobile, etc. In addition, Azure developer services are one of the best, which include Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevTest Labs, SDKs, Application Insight, Xamarin, API management solutions, etc.