AWS Elastic Network Interface

Networking plays an important role in connecting the components of infrastructure. AWS networking feature works with various types of workloads and provides security, availability, and manageability. Now as most of the IT companies are working on cloud environments for cost reduction, high availability, data security, we are getting some interesting networking features as services. We can manage these quite easily too. Among those services is Elastic Network Interface (ENI) which we get by default when we create an EC2 instance on AWS and can be seen while the instance is being created. It may surprise many of us that the security group is attached to this elastic network interface.

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Introduction To Microservices

Introduction

There has been a rapid development in the application development industry in order to keep pace with the technological advancements and to meet customer requirements. However, while working with the traditional developments, people had to use large chunks of code. This made the entire task difficult as people had to go back to square one to resolve a minute problem. Microservices help overcome this by breaking applications into smaller, manageable parts. Continue reading “Introduction To Microservices”

How To Debug a Bash Shell Script?

What is Shell?

The UNIX shell program interprets user commands which are either directly entered by the user, or which can be read from a file called the shell script or shell program. Shell scripts are interpreted, not compiled. The shell reads commands from the script line per line and searches for those commands on the system. Continue reading “How To Debug a Bash Shell Script?”

An Introduction to Kubernetes Architecture! 

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform used for running distributed applications and services at scale. Merely knowing the basics of Kubernetes won’t be sufficient enough in order to leverage the many advantages that it offers. It’s important to first understand the complete Kubernetes architecture, its components and how they interact with each other to know how Kubernetes actually works. Let’s take a brief look and explore how the different components of Kubernetes work together.

Kubernetes is the ideal solution for complete orchestration, scaling and deployment of containerized applications. You can also read about application containerization, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Gateway and much more here!
The What, Why, and How of Application Containerization
What is Kubernetes API?

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Complete Guide to Nginx Monitoring with Telegraf, Prometheus, and Grafana

Nginx is one of the most popular and widely used web servers mostly because of its speed and reliability. Nevertheless, it is paramount to keep track of the performance and availability that would help you to proactively prepare yourself for the worst scenarios like sudden/unexpected hikes in traffic. It will also keep you updated about the current state and health of your application.

This article will guide you on how to get Nginx Web Server metrics and visualize them. The main goal is a quick deployment and configuration using well-known open-source projects like Grafana, Prometheus, and Telegraf. Continue reading “Complete Guide to Nginx Monitoring with Telegraf, Prometheus, and Grafana”