Introduction Ansible is a tool mainly used for provisioning, configuration management. With the help of GCP modules in Ansible, we can perform various tasks on GCP using Ansible. If you are unfamiliar with Ansible, check out my previous blog on Ansible. Ansible 101 Overview of Ansibleawstip.com Scenario Provisioning Google VM Compute instance on GCP and hosting a…

3 simple steps to deploy container apps to Heroku Introduction In this blog, I am focusing on containerizing a flask app and hosting it on the Heroku cloud platform. 1. Build Flask App > Create a Virtual environment # mkdir flask; cd flask # virtualenv venv # source venv/bin/activate >Install flask and gunicorn # pip3 install flask gunicorn # pip3 freeze > requirements.txt > Write basic flask app Project…

A brief tip about RHCSA Introduction Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam is the foundation exam to next level exam like Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). To take RHCE one should clear RHCSA. Understand the exam’s objectives Reading the exam’s objective is the first step, navigate to the official website and open up the RHCA…

Configuration management tool. What is Chef? Chef is a configuration management(CM) tool for defining Infrastructure as a code (IAC) for maintaining and configuring the settings of the system as per the design effectively. Other popular tools used in the industry are Ansible, Puppet, Salt. Terminologies Chef Workstation: This is the system where we write…

Overview of Ansible What is Ansible? Ansible is a tool developed by Michael DeHaan (which was later acquired by RedHat) to automate IT Tasks. IT Tasks like, installing or updating packages or maybe to create users or configuring permissions or changing privileges and many more things at a very large scale. The number…

This blog is quick refresher of git and github concepts What is git ? Git is a version control system, to track the changes made to files so we can go back in time revert changes that were once done. This tool helps users to collaborate on software project. What is github ? Github is a website where…

Blog about setting up load balancer to distribute the load. Quick Overview of Load balancer Load balancing refers to efficiently distributing incoming network traffic across a group of backend servers. It offers reliability to the system, by sending traffic only to the servers that are online. Basic architecture of the system that we are going to build

Basic concepts of DevOps and stages CI/CD pipeline. What is DevOps ? DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. To…

Most frequently used podman commands with basic overview of important concepts Podman definition Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images. Similar tools like podman. Docker LXD ContainerD Terminology Registry server : Its nothing…