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An Introduction to Service Mesh Architecture!

In its 2020 Cloud-Native Survey most recent report, The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) found that the use of service mesh in production jumped 50% in the last year.

You can read about Service Mesh, the benefits of deploying a Service Mesh, and ISTIO architecture, here in the given links!
– The Benefits of Deploying a Service Mesh
– An Introduction to ISTIO Service Mesh & its Architecture!

With the popularization of microservices architectures, there has emerged the need of using a Service Mesh. The use of Service mesh in Kubernetes is the most thought-after step to overcome security and networking challenges obstructing Kubernetes deployment and container adoption.

Let’s read and explore more on Service Mesh, its architecture, components and popular solutions for service meshes, here in this article. Here, we’ll know talk about,

Handling Private Affair: A Guide to Secrets Management System

Needless to say an automated system, no matter how big or small, must be designed with scale in mind. We’ll talk about laying foundation for a robust and malleable setup which is a useful read for everyone.

In my experience as DevOps and SRE, I’ve enjoyed quite a lot of things this profession offered. From the satisfaction of fulfilled curiosities to the anxiety of unforeseen mishaps, it delivered one day after the other. The nervousness in the face of new challenges, happiness on receiving appreciation, thrill during troubleshooting, the pride after a successful implementation, and a lot more. But the one I found myself seeking was boredom. Yes, plain old silence where no surprises are met, everything runs exactly as it should and you enjoy listening to dropping pins. This is especially true when the system in question is your own design. There’s no greater sentiment. It is like watching a bird that you’ve freed soar.

BigBulls Game Series- Patching MongoDB using Ansible

MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL and an open-source document-oriented database. The term NoSQL means ‘non-relational’.This simply means mongo does not base on a table-like relational database structure. It is moreover a schemaless database. In Mongo information is stored in JSON-style documents.

Learn the Hacks for Running Custom Scripts at Spot Termination

Nowadays, it is very common to run applications on Spot instances. In this scenario, where a spot instance could be terminated at any point of time because of AWS pulling back their resource or ASG Scale-In incident, we need to have something in place to handle the termination smoothly so that we can complete our final tasks before the system shutdown. It could be executing some scripts, unmounting some storage device, shipping final log files to S3, or uploading cache data in a centralized server like Redis.
Today, I will attempt to cater to this problem.

First of all, let’s think of trying to run a custom script prior to shutdown in our local system. If everything works fine, the same would be applicable for ec2 spot instances too.

The Step-By-Step Guide to Connect Aws with Azure

As we all know AWS and Azure are the two Cloud providers and there can be possibilities that one of our services is running on one cloud provider and the other is running on another cloud provider and, both are dependent on each other.

Through this blog, I will guide you on the steps which will be needed for connecting AWS with Azure and also will be explaining all the components of both the cloud provider that will be required for creating the site-to-site VPN Connectivity.

Why are we trying to connect both?

In one of my projects, I met with a requirement where I was working on an application that follows a client-server architecture. There were servers connected to multiple clients. Initially, the Server was placed into AWS and the connected clients were also there, but after a couple of years our requirements got changed and a new business unit came into the picture with its own clients that were needed to be connected with the server present in the AWS cloud.

Now, these new clients were present on Azure but the server was on AWS. Migration of server was not an option for us because our customer was not ready to migrate those clients from Azure to AWS, so this was a completely new use case, to which we decided to connect both the cloud providers with each other by setting up IPSec VPN tunnel.