In this video I show how setup Flask and Apache on an Ubuntu VM in Digital Ocean with a custom domain. This was made after someone in the comments on my other DigitalOcean video requested it. If there is something else anyone would like to see, please just let me know I am happy to […]
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Setting up Kubernetes to manage containers on the Google Cloud Platform
These days the pace of innovation in DevOps can leave you feeling like you’re jogging on a treadmill programmed to run faster than Usain Bolt. Mastery requires hours of practice and the last decade in DevOps has not allowed for it. Before gaining 10 years of experience running virtual machines using VmWare in private data-centers, […]
Continue ReadingHow To: Create An AWS Lambda Function To Backup/Snapshot Your EBS Volumes
AWS Lambda functions are a great way to run some code on a trigger/schedule without needing a whole server dedicated to it. They can be cost effective, but be careful depending on how long they run, and the number of executions per hour, they can be quite costly as well. For my use case, I […]
Continue ReadingHow To: Use Spinnaker to deploy into AWS
Spinnaker is a tool created by Netflix (of whom I have always been a big fan) that succeeded Asgard a tool I used in my past at PayPal. Not to digress but my favorite companies when it comes to DevOps tools are Hashicorp and Netflix. Obviously, that’s a bit of apples and oranges there, but […]
Continue ReadingMongoDB data loss avoided courtesy of AWS EBS & Snapshots
Cross Region MongoDB Across A Slow Network (Napster) Bad, AWS Snapshots (Metallica) Good! I recently found myself in a bit of a pickle. My team and I had deployed a 3 node MongoDB cluster configured as two nodes in us-east-1 and one node in us-west-2 to maximize our availability while minimizing cost. Ultimately, there were two problems […]
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