Azure 2022: A Year in Review – Major Service Launches and Features

Introduction 2022 has been an incredible year for Microsoft Azure as the company released several game-changing services and feature upgrades. Let’s take a walk through some major launches that transformed capabilities for cloud computing. 1. Azure Container Apps A fully managed serverless container service introducing: Key Features: Implementation Example: 2. Azure Chaos Studio New service for resilience testing: Capabilities: 3. Azure Managed Grafana Enterprise-grade observability platform: Features: 4. Azure Cognitive Services UpdatesContinue reading “Azure 2022: A Year in Review – Major Service Launches and Features”

AWS 2022: A Year in Review – Major Service Launches and Features

Introduction 2022 was a transformative year for AWS, with many significant launches and feature enhancements. Let’s dive into the most impactful AWS services and features that were introduced during this period. 1. Amazon Inspector for Container Images AWS significantly expanded its security capabilities with the launch of Amazon Inspector support for container images. This brought in theContinue reading “AWS 2022: A Year in Review – Major Service Launches and Features”

Kubernetes GitOps with ArgoCD: A 2021 Deep Dive

Introduction 2021 saw GitOps emerge as a leading practice for Kubernetes deployments, with ArgoCD becoming the de facto tool for implementation. Let’s explore how to implement GitOps effectively using ArgoCD in Kubernetes. What is GitOps? GitOps is a declarative approach to Kubernetes cluster management and application delivery where: Setting Up ArgoCD 1. Installation 2. BasicContinue reading “Kubernetes GitOps with ArgoCD: A 2021 Deep Dive”

2021 Cloud Provider Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs GCP – Key Features and Leadership Areas

Introduction 2021 was an important year for cloud computing, with major developments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Let’s dive into the key features and compare where each provider excelled. Service Leadership by Provider AWS Leadership Areas Azure Leadership Areas GCP Leadership Areas Feature Comparison Matrix Compute Services FeatureAWSAzureGCPVM Types400+200+150+Container SupportStrongStrongExcellentServerlessExcellentGoodGoodBare MetalYesLimitedNo Storage Services FeatureAWSAzureGCPObject StorageS3 (Excellent)Blob (Good)Cloud Storage (Good)Block StorageEBS (Excellent)Managed Disks (Good)Persistent Disk (Good)File StorageEFS (Good)FilesContinue reading “2021 Cloud Provider Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs GCP – Key Features and Leadership Areas”

AWS CDK (Python) How to Create EKS Cluster

In my previous post, I have discussed about how to create vpc, subnets, internet gateway, nat gateway using AWS CDK(Python). In this post, we will be discussing about how to create EKS (k8s) cluster. This is requested by many of my followers, so I would like to write a blog to help the community. CreateContinue reading “AWS CDK (Python) How to Create EKS Cluster”

AWS CDK (Python)- How to Configure VPC, Subnets, Internet gateway, NatGateway

So far, i’ve discussed about how to configure vpc, subnets, natgateway, ec2 using terraform, in this post i’m going to discuss how to configure VPC, Subnets, Internet Gateway, NatGateway with AWS CDK using python as language. We don’t need to write any complex cloudformation scripts, we use AWS CDK to construct resources. For more informationContinue reading “AWS CDK (Python)- How to Configure VPC, Subnets, Internet gateway, NatGateway”

Configure EC2, ALB using terraform

Continuation to the previous article I’m going to demonstrate how to create AWS EC2, ALB. Backend.tf Providers.tf variables.tf datasources.tf vpc.tf publicsubnets.tf privatesubnets.tf create iam roles , polcies for ec2 instance ec2_assume_role.json ec2-policy.json (This policy grants s3 list put and get, ec2 full access ) create s3 bucket ec2-sg.tf ec2.tf The above script creates ec2 instanceContinue reading “Configure EC2, ALB using terraform”

How to configure VPC, Network, Internet gateway, NAT Gateway using terraform

Continuation to the previous article, I’m going to demonstrate how to configure vpc, public subnet, internet gateway, private subnet, NAT Gateway. I’ve modified the scripts to simplify and easy to manage. Backend.tf I’ve added dynamodb for locking the terraform state. Locking helps make sure that only one team member runs terraform configuration. Providers.tf variables.tf Datasource.tfContinue reading “How to configure VPC, Network, Internet gateway, NAT Gateway using terraform”

How to configure VPC, Network, Internet gateway using terraform

Continuing to previous airtcle , let us setup network using terraform. To begin with, let us create terraform variables, providers I’ve created profile and region as two variables that I will be referring in the terraform resources. variable.tf provider.tf Let’s run terraform init Now you can see that aws provider has been created. You canContinue reading “How to configure VPC, Network, Internet gateway using terraform”

How to configure terraform state file as Amazon S3

In this blog post, I would like to present how to create terraform state file as s3. I will be writing series of blog posts about terraform, ansible automation, How to use AWS CDK to automate infrastructure. To begin with, Let us start about how to configure terraform state file as Amazon S3. Before youContinue reading “How to configure terraform state file as Amazon S3”