Provision Grafana and custom dashboards, automagically

Hi

I wanted to share with you some of my experience about automating the process of deploying Grafana and custom dashboards

In this process, I used the Prometheus operator to collect time-series metrics from my Kubernetes cluster and added Grafana to visualize it all in a beautiful way

If you want to know more about the process, or if you’re new to the micro-services world, you’re welcome to read the full post here where I discuss  each component in detail and illustrate the provisioning process

Best,

Omer Barel

DevOps Consultant, CodeValue

Down the Cloud Formation rabbit-hole

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In my previous post I explained how to deploy the basic compute resources that will run our applications. If you haven’t done so already, please read this first

I got some questions from readers that wanted to understand a bit more about the cloudformation tool I’m using. I can see how it might be a bit overwhelming at first, so I want to demystify some of the “magic” that is done behind the scenes

In this post, I want to dive a bit deeper to a key feature inside the cloud formation template – the userdata piece.

Configure HP Server Bios using Powershell

Hi Everyone

I wanted to share with you a script I developed for configuring HP Server BIOS settings using Powershell

Automate Docker Deployment with Docker Infrastructure

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In a series of blog posts I want to take you through the experience I had recently with building docker images in an automatic procedure

What will we cover?

• Deploy the underlying infrastructure into AWS using CloudFormation
• Deploy Jenkins & Artifactory using docker-compose
• Configure Jenkins pipeline to build docker images using Jenkinsfile (a.k.a “Infrastructure-as-code”)
• Configure Artifactory as a repository for npm packages, rpm packages & docker images

Quick-and-Dirty Docker Remote API Configuration

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During some testing I did recently, I wanted to open the docker service for remote access.

I spent quite some time browsing between multiple official documentation and blog posts until I nailed it down, so I though I would sum it up for you for easy implementation, should you choose to use it…

Cost Control with AWS Auto Scaling Groups

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In a series blog posts I started discussing how to control and minimize your costs in AWS. Read about Where’s my money??? as well as Control your spendings in AWS to know more.

Today I want to touch on a feature in AWS called Auto Scaling Groups – what is it, how it’s related to cost and how to control it

Control your spendings in AWS

Hi Everyone,

In my previous blog post – where’s my money??? – I started discussing the shock and awe cloud newbies encounter once they start dipping their toes in the cloud computing pool. If you haven’t done so already, I suggest you start by reading this first.

So hopefully by now you begin to understand what tags are (in short, meta-data) and I assume you’re wondering how you can use them…

Where’s my money???

So, you went ahead and joined the cloud revolution.

Awesome, you can now chat with your colleagues and throw around buzz words such as IaaS, SaaS, PaaS (and if you’re really cutting edge, you’re probably discussing things like K8s, Docker or maybe even Serverless architecture…)

That’s all great, until you get the check. Next thing you know, too many people are launching instances, storing data and utilizing your cloud account, and you have no control.

What the hell should I do???

Take back the control of your Datacenter

Hi

TL;DR

The scripts are in my github repo. However, I encourage you to read the full post before using them.

PowerShell Goodies

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I wanted to share with you some powershell goodies I use for my day-to-day work