AWS High Performance Storage

Late 2018, AWS release FSx for Lustre. Lustre is an open-source, parallel file system that supports many requirements of High Performance Compute (HPC) http://lustre.org/. This is managed offering by AWS and allows you do the following:- Easy to process high performing data sets natively or using S3 as a source- Easy access to S3 buckets.- …

Kubernetes Jenkins Windows and PowerShell

How to use Kubernetes Jenkins and Windows together

Is Google Cloud network really better than AWS network ?

This week I was listening to a conversation about cloud computing. Somebody mentioned that Google Cloud Computing network was better than  Amazon Web Services (AWS). I heard this before from people in conferences but nobody has ever giving me numbers probing this statement. I was thinking to myself this maybe a marketing campaign that somebody …

IoT, AWS, and the Amazon Dash Button

The internet of things or IoT in is simple way is the ability to connect any to device to internet. There are many uses for this but the most common one is to report state of the device. With this post I want to show you how easy is to get started with IoT and …

Why you should care about concurrency

Yes, something else as engineer you need to worry about. This is something that software developers are familiar with but the concept has started to cripple into automation and managing infrastructure. As a infrastructure engineers cloud and on-prem we need to understand how it can benefit us and make life easier. What is concurrency? The …

Tips on how to get all 5 AWS certifications in 1 month

Let me start by saying that I do not believe a certification tells anybody how knowledgeable you are about a subject. But I believe it tells the character of a person like the desire to improve his/her skills, ability to focus and the drive to get stuff done. If you are not familiar with AWS …

How to solve Fizz Buzz with Go, Python and PowerShell

I have always heard about FizzBuzz but was not really sure what it was. After some research it seems that FizzBuzz is pretty common interview question for Software Developers even though it is a children's game. The question goes like this: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples …

Easy way to control cost in AWS using Python

As you start moving workloads to the AWS cloud and opening access to developers you will see you AWS cost increase every month without controls in place. The best way to control and have a charge back model in place is to use AWS tags. You can have tags assigned to different departments like Marketing, …

How to add a second interface to specific EC2 instances using Python3

AWS offers a lot of  different SDKs to configure resources in AWS. This means that you can use your favorite language to code against AWS API like Java Ruby, C++, etc. In my case I decided to use Python3 because of the Boto3 library. I decided to use Boto3 because it provides a low level …

How to get started with Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks

As you may be aware this month during the AWS conference it was announced AWS OpsWork for Chef Automate. You may be wonder what this means for you and how it helps. I think this is a easy way to get started with CHEF and get your organization excited about the product. Now, if you …