My experience with Windows Distributed File System and Replication(DFS-R)

Hello folks, In this article, I would like to shed some light on certain aspects that I had encountered recently while working on one of exciting project. If you have ever worked with any enterprise which is having Microsoft windows based products or applications, you will surely be either heard or came across the need …

AWS: How to make cross account aws cli calls by assuming role on behalf of instance profile.

Hi folks, In this article, we are going learn how we can assume IAM role on behalf of EC2 instance profile and leverage AWS STS service in order to run cross account AWS cli commands. Background: Most of the organizations try to keep segregation when it comes to AWS infrastructure by managing different linked AWS …

Install gem offline.

Problem : You can not install gems if you have no network connection on machine or your machine is behind a very restrictive firewall that doesn't have access to internet but still you want to install the gems.   Prerequisites : If you try installing gems from local folder but sometimes it's will not work because it …

Kong : A powerful alternative to AWS API gateway.

Problem/Use case : I want to have an API management platform for microservices based enterprise level application which will take care of security, scalability, traffic management, high availability, rate limiting, routing and versioning etc. Background : Now a days microservices is become a buzzword. Applications are being built on microservices architecture because of its huge advantages. It’s not …

Step by step guide to perform MSSQL database backup/restore from an on-premise instance to AWS RDS.

One of the common need if you are working with any database is to perform backup and restore of databases at any given point of time. AWS RDS supports so many databases but comes with many limitations as well. Here, I will talk specifically about MSSQL server backup and restore functionality in AWS RDS. You …

Secure your stay in the Cloud with Trend Micro.

How do you secure your cloud infrastructure and Data Center? Are you using private cloud or in some cases hybrid cloud to restrict access to your critical resources in the cloud? If you are not thinking beyond this to secure your infrastructure, you are putting yourself at big RISK and you haven't done your security …

It’s RED!!! How do I recover unassigned elasticsearch cluster shards?

Have you had same question? Have you been through such a situation? Don't get frustrated. Here are some solutions that you can apply to fix this problem. Primary Cause : One or more data nodes in the cluster gets restarted due to whatever reason. You only have one node in your cluster, but you have …

Setup couchbase cluster using Terraform

Hello folks, 'DevOps' is becoming a buzzword now. Everyone wants everything to be automated right from development to production environment. Thanks to the variety of technologies/tools available to accomplish these types of tasks. Technologies include Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Consul, AWS Cloud formation and so on to name a few. Let's get started... Our …

How to calculate code coverage of IIS hosted WCF services?

This will explain you how to calculate code coverage of IIS hosted WCF services in detail.

Jenkins integration to calculate code coverage of WCF services hosted in IIS.

This blog will explain you how to automate the code coverage process of WCF services hosted in IIS with Jenkins.