Introduction As we work with cookbook in our previous blog, we are now aware about how chef really works and manage machines using cookbooks. Its crucial to understand the potential of thoughts and theories behind any concept. According to Albert Einstein, “A Theory Can Be Proved By Experiment; But No Paths Leads from …
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Chef-Cookbooks Roast it perfectly..
Introduction This is our first major step towards our learnings. We are now quite sound with the ABC’s of chef. Now we announce the most compelling facet of chef. Cookbooks are the most crucial segment of the chef’s kingdom. Nothing worth having comes easy, so kickoff with more efforts. “A Real Test Of a Good …
Chef-Recipes Bake it calmly..
(source: google.com) Introduction This is very crucial state of your learnings with chef. It’s not easy to deposit that much of attention continuously so be calm and reassemble all your amplitude for the next bout. Straightway we are going to clash with chef-recipes. We will try to maintain the balance so we didn’t feel overfed. …
Chef-Resources Elementary ingredient..
Introduction Resources are the “elementary ingredient” of Chef house. Before mounting up on the spikes of chef’s elevations, it’s favorable to tailor your suit with basics. Combining common ingredients to make a new play substance is always thrilling!. I wish I had some magic secrets or shortcuts to share, but the truth is that you …
Chef-Resources Easy as pie..
Introduction Resources are the basal element of chef’s heap. In all the functioning of chef, resources are in crux. These are a very first statement of any chef recipe or cookbook. In this blog we only intensify on the practical approach of working with resources. This article will help you to compose a primitive awareness …
Snoopy + ELK : Exhibit sudo commands in Kibana Dashboard
Logging User Commands: Snoopy Logger About Snoopy Logger Snoopy logs all the commands that are ran by any user to a log file. This is helpful for auditing and keep an eye on user activities. Automated Installation For Automated Installation/Configuration of Snoopy we have created a Puppet module and Ansible Role. Puppet Module: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/opstree/snoopy Ansible …
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Snoopy : Get, Set and log
Recently we got a requirement to log each and every command executed by the users. Upon googling we found a tool that is exclusively contrived to accomplish this ambition. This tool was “Snoopy”. This is a open source project whose microscopic documentation is available at their github page: https://github.com/a2o/snoopy You can find all installation and …
How to secure your Linux Server
Yesterday was a good and bad day for me, bad day because one of my linux server has been hacked. Good day because it was one of the most important task in my pipeline which I wanted to take up, that is securing my systems. As people say being agile or lazy :), do when …
Attach a new volume to EC2 Instance
This blog will talk about how to mount a new volume to an existing EC2 instance, though it is very straightforward & simple, but it’s good to have a checklist ready with you so that you can do things in one go instead of searching here and there. The most important thing to take note …
How to create an extra swap space using file system
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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Devops Done Right 