Every now and then I get a bit lazy. I’ll be working on a task and realize I’ve done something one time too many. It’s in those “this nonsense must stop” moments that I tend to do a bit of soul (read web) searching and find easier ways to do stuff. One such moment came last year […]
Creating CXF SOAP Web Services with WSSE in a Spring Boot Microservice
Python script to start or stop amazon ec2 instance and notify slack channel
Hello Guys, Happy New Year to you all. This is my first post in 2016 and I would love to share something useful for those who play around with AWS EC2 instances. Let’s get started with the prerequisites. Prerequisites Before you start, I would love to warn you about python and its discipline around indentation. […]
Using ansible for web deployment
Hello Guys, this is a second post of the configuration management with ansible series. Second post after Introduction to ansible . Previously we learned how to use ansible to automate the installation of wordpress and mysql database using ansible playbook. It’s time to spice things up a little bit. The purpose of this second post […]
Introduction to Ansible
Hello There, This is the first article of the series on configuration management with Ansible. I hope this will give you hands on real practice time , working knowledge with Ansible Using Ansible Now that we have our default inventory and our infrastructure defined in the mother article, let’s see what we can do with […]
Configuration Management with Ansible
Hi There, We will look into Ansible, one of the configuration management tools that are standing out. The reason why I like Ansible so much is that, with it, it’s actually easy to breakdown configuration management fundamentals to anyone with basic system administration skills or say, to anyone who knows how to use a terminal […]
Taking advantage of vagrant for quick infrastructure prototyping
Hello Folks I must admit, I have been very reluctant in using vagrant for while before I have seen the light. I actually had my wow moment when I managed to set up a complex virtual IT infrastructure to simulate a deployment architecture with just few lines. Let’s get going with our task today. For […]
How to make virtualbox guest use its host’s internet connection and still have ssh access to the guest
Hi guys, The title of this post can be misleading but basically the challenge I would like us to solve is pretty simple. There are situations where a guest OS on vitualbox will need to have Internet connection which is by default through the NAT interface. But that will limit your access to the client […]