Ease is bigger threat to progress than hardship
Sometimes you feel constrained due to the the RAM limit of your system especially when you are running heavy duty software’s, in this blog I’ll talk about how you can overcome this problem by having an extra swap space to give you extra computing power First of all you can execute swapon command to check …
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One of the suggested practices in cloud administration is to always host your applications on a Virtual Private Cloud. Also, you should have a public subnet hosting the public facing apps, and a private subnet which hosts the private apps (like a database or a back-end service/app). To know more about why you need such …
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As I said in the previous blog Puppet module to setup nodejs deployment, the nodejs module was for providing the basic infrastructure for automated node app’s deployment & as promised I’ve released the next module “nodeapp” that can be used to setup a node app on the target server. First of all I’ll talk about …
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I would like to share my puppet module to setup nodejs deployment infrastructure on a linux box. This module performs the basic setup required to facilitate the automated deployment of a nodejs app. Very soon I’ll be introducing another generic puppet module that will run on top of this module & provide a full fledged …
One of the main task of a system administrator is system monitoring, system monitoring usually involves monitoring the ram & disk space usage of the system …. In this blog I’ll be talking about my experience as a system admin & how I do it. Usually system monitoring is divided into 2 parts Continuous system …
If you have ever tried setting up git as a version control system in a Jenkins installation on a windows box you would have faced an error message ssh key not available. The reason behind this issue is that if you are using git with ssh protocol it tries to use your private key to …
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One of the problem I used to have as build & release engineer is to manage login to huge number of boxes through my Linux system. At the scale of 5-10 machine it’s a not a big problem but once you have close to 100+ boxes then it is not humanly possible to remember the …
Initial version of Automated DB Updater Release ADU With this blog I’m releasing the intial version of a python utility to provide automated db updates across various environments for different components. The code for this utility is hosted on githubhttps://github.com/sandy724/ADU You can clone the read only copy of this codebase by url given belowhttps://github.com/sandy724/ADU.git To …
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In continuation with my blog series I’m finally introducing a automated db updater tool. You can read about the idea in previous blogs by going to below links Manual DB Updates challengesManual DB Updates challenges-2 The short form of my tool is ADU(Automated DB Updater). Now some details about this tool Each application will have …
Before I’ll start talking about this utility I would like to talk about the story behind the creation of this utility. Few days back we have a session ERGONOMICS about healthy lifestyle, one of the main thing was that a person should take a break after every 20 minutes. After the session I was having …
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