Veeam is a very popular backup and disaster recovery solution for VMware and Hyper-V environments. The public cloud migration rate is soaring but cloud native backup solutions are not easy as on-prem backup solutions. This is primarily because each object has associated with cost in the cloud. So the product must be intelligent to calculate […]
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Jenkins Integration – Terraform IaC Pipeline Setup
How to integrate Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) into Jenkins? Cloud infrastructure offers great agility and flexibility but you need the right toolsets to manage the power of public cloud platforms. To operate in the public cloud efficiently, You need to treat infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC eliminates the manual interaction required to configure Cloud […]
Setup Monitoring for EBS snapshot – Amazon DLM | EC2 AMI
This article will walk you through how to monitor the automated EBS snapshot failures using CloudWatch. Amazon data life cycle manager automates the creation, copy, and deregistration of EBS-backed AMIs using policies. Using DLM, AMI can be copied over to other regions for disaster recovery. Amazon DLM reduces the operational cost by doing the AMI cleanup […]
Amazon EC2 – Disaster Recovery using DLM – Cross Region snapshot – EC2 AMI
Data is a critical asset for any business in the digital world. so backing up your data regularly is critical for any company with business continuity in mind. This is applicable whether the company is using an on-premises data center or a public cloud like AWS, Azure, or GCP. At the same time, you need to […]
BDRSuite v5.2 – Recover ONPREM VM on Azure Quickly
BDRSuite v5.2 is generally available now. BRDSuite v5.2 includes multiple features including restoring the VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, Windows Servers & Windows Workstations backups to Microsoft Azure. It also brings On-demand backup scheduling for Microsoft 365 backups, User-level backup report for Microsoft-365, and On-demand backup scheduling for Google Workspace backups. This article will walk you […]
Terraform – Source credentials from AWS secret Manager
How to avoid plain text credentials in terraform code? Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code tool that supports multi-cloud platforms. Many organizations have taken the multi-cloud strategy to manage the cost and eliminate the single vendor dependency. If you have multiple cloud environments, terraform becomes the default choice for provisioning. Communicating to multi-cloud […]
AWS SSM Stage Manager – Custom SSM documents for Monitoring
AWS Systems Manager State Manager is a secure and scalable configuration management service that automates the process of keeping your Amazon EC2 and hybrid infrastructure in a state that you define. In our solution, we will use a state manager for running custom scripts for monitoring and alerting through the Event Bridge + SNS solution. […]
Protect AWS EC2 with robust backup software
Are you looking for robust backup software to protect AWS EC2 instances? I have been searching for a simple backup solution to protect my EC2 instances automatically with a pre-defined schedule. Recently came across “BDRSuite” from LinkedIn and thought of giving it a try. This tool is a really simple one with a clean web […]
OKD – How to setup Red Hat Openshift 3.11 in a single node?
Are you looking to set up a single node Openshift cluster? Maybe on AWS EC2 or Microsoft Azure VM? I am also like you who had really struggled to set up Openshift lab environment with lessor cost or no cost. As we all know RedHat Openshift 3.x release supports the single node cluster concept and […]
AWS SSM for ONPREM & Cloud instance Monitoring
AWS Systems Manager helps you manage your EC2 instances and On-Premise systems at scale. You can easily get operations insights about the state of your infrastructure. It helps to detect instance issues easily and it could be a patching automation solution to enhance compliance. This article will provide a high-level plan to implement AWS SSM monitoring […]