Category: DevOps

Why We Should Use Transit & Direct Connect Gateways!

A BIG THANK YOU TO TRANSIT AND DIRECT CONNECT GATEWAYS

In everyone’s career path, this particular situation always comes when we think that everything will work out fine when, suddenly, out of the blue, we realize that a big issue is waiting to happen. We freak out about what are we gonna do before this issue knocks at your door ..Right? 

Something similar happened to me some time ago, so let me cut to the chase. 🙂

I will explain why there is benefit in using transit and direct connect gateways by telling you what issues we faced without it.

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How to Setup Jenkins in a few minutes!

Have you ever gone through the situation when your Jenkins goes down without any backup of your jobs and then you have to waste a lot of time and effort to re-create all your resources from scratch? We had also faced the same problem, but now We are free from it We have found a solution.

You might really want to know, how. What if, I say you can create a Jenkins server with the same configuration without any efforts and most importantly without wasting months, days, or even hours. Yes, you can set up your Jenkins in just 30 mins as we did.

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HAProxy Hurdles Walkthrough

HAProxy is one of the most frequently used and efficient tools out there for load-balancing. It is highly configurable and can handle almost all of one’s needs to set up a HA, scalable infrastructure in both, HTTP and TCP. Its clientele is a testament to that as it is used and recommended by various heavy-hitters in the industry like Airbnb, Github, instagram, reddit, etc. 

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Elasticsearch Garbage Collector Frequent Execution Issue

Have you noticed an unexpected unallocation of Shards happening at a duration of 1 hour resulting in Cluster state switching from Green > Yellow > Red > Yellow > Green?. During this transition, ES becomes unreachable and the API calls start responding with non 200 code.

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Redis Setup on Kubernetes

Redis is a popular and opensource in-memory database that supports multiple data structures like strings, hashes, lists, and sets. But similar to other tools, we can scale standalone redis to a particular extent and not beyond that. That’s why we have a cluster mode setup in which we can scale Redis nodes horizontally and then distribute data among those nodes.

Since Kubernetes is becoming buzz technology and people are using it to manage their applications, databases, and middlewares at a single place. So in this blog, we will see how we can deploy the Redis cluster in production mode in the Kubernetes cluster and test failover.

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