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Introduction to Azure IoT Central

IoT Concepts

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical devices that link to and share data with other devices and services via the Internet or another communication network. There are presently over ten billion connected devices worldwide, with more being added every year. Anything that has the required sensors and software can be connected to the internet. The following tools have enabled IoT:

Access to low cost, low power sensors.
Various protocols enable internet connectivity.
Cloud computing platforms such as Azure.
Big data.
Machine learning.
Artificial intelligence.

What is Azure IoT Central?

Azure IoT Central is a platform as a service (PaaS) for creating, managing, and maintaining enterprise-grade IoT solutions.
Choosing to build with IoT Central allows you to focus your time, money, and energy on transforming your company with IoT data, rather than just managing and updating a complex and ever-changing IoT infrastructure.

GitHub: Self-Hosted Runner on Kubernetes

GitHub Actions is a powerful tool for automating software workflows, and it can be used to build, test, and deploy code right from GitHub. It provides a way to automate repetitive tasks and can be integrated with many popular tools and platforms.

GitHub Actions can use two types of runners: hosted and self-hosted.

Hosted runners are provided by GitHub and run on virtual machines in the cloud.
Self-hosted runners are machines that you set up and manage yourself. They run on your infrastructure, and you can customize them to meet your needs.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up GitHub’s self-hosted runner on Kubernetes.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following:

A Kubernetes cluster
Helm Installed
Access to a GitHub repository for creating PAT and adding runners.

Continue reading “GitHub: Self-Hosted Runner on Kubernetes”

Lambda Function Trigger Enabled Using Code Pipeline.

Why are you doing a lambda function trigger enabled using pipeline?

For the AWS service to invoke your function directly, you need to create a trigger using the Lambda console. A trigger is a resource you configure to allow another AWS service to invoke your function when certain events or conditions occur. Your function can have multiple triggers. Each trigger acts as a client invoking your function independently, and each event that Lambda passes to your function has data from only one trigger. By using the code pipeline we enabled our lambda function trigger when we needed it.

What is the benefit?

People don’t need to add lambda function roles permission manually and don’t need to enable trigger manually because, after policy gets attached to the particular roles then we can enable trigger and it happens by using pipeline whenever we need every time automation happens.

FOSSA: Audit-Grade Open Source Dependency Protection

Automate License Compliance with FOSSA

What is FOSSA?

FOSSA is a software composition analysis tool that continuously scans for open-source components and tracks dependencies and license compliance. FOSSA is an open source management platform used by companies like UBER, SLACK, and NIKE with a policy engine. They have default policies for websites and hosted services that are used for Statistical Analysis System applications.

Use case of FOSSA

FOSSA helps you to manage your open-source components. FOSSA plugs into your development workflow to help your team automatically track, manage, and remediate issues with the open source you use to:

Stay compliant with software licenses and generate required attribution documents
Enforce usage and licensing policies throughout your CI/CD workflow
Monitor and remediate security vulnerabilities
Flag code quality issues and outdated components proactively

Open-source software is a huge asset for a growing company but open-source license compliance can be difficult using legacy tools that are inflexibly forcing the legal team to spend too much time manually addressing gaps. So we need an automated way to cover all license approval scenarios. FOSSA works with all our favorite coding languages- python, C/C++, JavaScript, etc. So Let’s begin with How to run your first scan using FOSSA.

AWS Transit Gateway – A Saviour for your Connections

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As the Edtech industry continues to grow and evolve, the need for reliable and secure network infrastructure becomes imperative. Recently I got a chance to work on an Edtech project where we had to manage multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks in order to accommodate their different environments – development, testing, and production.

Managing these networks separately was quite challenging and also made it difficult to troubleshoot any issues. This is where we thought of leveraging AWS Transit Gateway. In this blog, we’ll explore the capabilities of AWS Transit Gateway.

Transit Gateway can make your routing easy with the simple configuration just by making simple Transit attachments. See how it works.

What is Transit Gateway?

Transit gateways help you to connect multiple VPCs, multiple Transit Gateway, network Appliance, AWS Direct Connect Gateway, and VPN to transit Gateway. It helps you in making your routing flow understandable and easy to maintain. More over you can say it’s serverless of your VPC peering Service.