EC2 Ssh Connection Refused

When ssh: connect to host ip_address port 22 Connection refused Unable to access server??? Exactly when you see the error – “ssh: connect to host ip_address port 22: Connection refused” while connecting your AWS EC2 Instance. In order to find solution of the problem, you will go to AWS forum and other channels where you need to …

Chef Journey

I’m starting a blog series on chef where I would be taking you to a journey of managing my current infrastructure using Chef. To start with these are the high level tasks lists that I’ve in mind: User Management : User’s creation or deletion on an environment(Dev/QA/Staging/Production) should be managed by chef, along with kind …

VPC per envrionvment versus Single VPC for all environments

This blog talks about the two possible ways of hosting your infrastructure in Cloud, though it will be more close to hosting on AWS as it is a real life example but this problem can be applied to any cloud infrastructure set-up. I’m just sharing my thoughts and pros & cons of both approaches but …

A wrapper over linode python API bindings

Recently I’ve been working on automating the nodes creation on our Linode infrastructure, in the process I came across the Linode API and it’s bindings. Though they were powerful but lacks at some places i.e: In case of Linode CLI, while creating a linode you have to enter the root password so you can’t achieve …

How to Manage Amazon Web Services Instances part 1

If you want to minimize the amount of money you spend on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, then this blog post is for you. In this post I will be discussing  the rationale behind starting & stopping AWS instances in an automated fashion and more importantly, doing it in a correct way. Obviously you could …

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