Posted inBlockchain Opensource

Blockchain

With Bitcoin, Ethereum and all the other cryptocurrencies around - what exactly are cryptocurrencies anyway? How do they function? Can they be used for any other purposes? This is a…
January 17, 2019
Posted inKubernetes

K8S 101 – The Basics!

Kubernetes 101 - the absolute basics! At the basic level, Kubernetes is comprised of: Cluster A Kubernetes cluster is a set of physical or virtual machines and other infrastructure resources…
January 13, 2019
Posted inNomad Opensource

Nomad

Nomad is an infrastructure lifecycle management tool and differs from Terraform in that Terraform is more of a build/config/provisioning tool. Installation and getting started with Nomad is pretty simple For…
January 9, 2019
Posted inAWS

EC2 on AWS

An instance is a virtual server in the AWS cloud. Points to note Instances are Amazon EBS-backed meaning that the root volume is an EBS volumeThe instance consists of the…
January 7, 2019
Posted inDocker Opensource

Docker

Docker, put simply, is a container platform - which solves the issue of running code that is OS agnostic (to an extent) and allows for the application to be freed…
January 6, 2019
Posted inOpensource Vagrant

Vagrant

Vagrant is an open source provisioning tool from Hashicorp. It uses a concept of "boxes" and is used to provision development environments at scale to a multi cloud environment -…
January 6, 2019
Posted inVMware

VMware ESXi Logs

This was long overdue. Old post on YouTube, but this talks about VMware ESXi logs, log locations and the respective services that the logs belong to. While this is just…
January 5, 2019
Posted inOpensource Terraform

Terminating or destroying a build

To remove/terminate or destroy a build, it pretty simple. You use the terraform destroy command ayan@Epoch:~/terraform$ terraform destroy aws_instance.example: Refreshing state... (ID: i-065b6f952bd9dc3e0) An execution plan has been generated and…
January 4, 2019