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VPC Ingress Routing

VPC Ingress Routing

The VPC incoming network traffic would have to be forwarded to on-premises appliance or firewall in order to inspect the traffic and routed back to VPC which is not an ideal solution, it adds latency and complexity.

Future of Technologies: Blockchain

Future of Technologies: Blockchain

"Everything will be tokenized and connected by blockchain one day" - Fred Ehrsam Blockchain was invented by group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public transaction ledger of the crypto currency Bitcoin.What really...

Encrypting Systems Manager Sessions

Encrypting Systems Manager Sessions

I recently discovered that we can encrypt ec2 sessions launched via AWS Systems Manager. I figured it needs a few things in place to make it happen, A KMS key to be used for encrypting sessions with the following policy attached to it. Refrence...

Digging deep into dig command

Digging deep into dig command

DIG stands for Domain Information Groper. As the name suggests it is used to grab information from a DNS server. It is one of the most powerful yet most underrated utility. Sometimes we get overwhelmed by all the information that is shown and...

VPC Basics

VPC Basics

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is a virtual network infrastructure like a physical datacenter, which provides network connectivity to all the resources deployed in that VPC. There are few key concepts for VPCs which you should understand: VPC-...

Multi Tenancy in Telco Space

Multi Tenancy in Telco Space

Praveen Batta is a senior consultant and CTO-Ambassador at VMware. Serving the Telco Industry, focusing on Kubernetes, cloud technologies, and VMware solutions. He has 16 years of experience in multiple technologies, including:...

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

This is the second part of Instance Scheduler where I am going to explain how a lambda function which when invoked by CloudWatch rule, triggers a SNS notification which sends me an email. Every time the specified instance changes state (start,...

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 1

One fine day at work, I was playing around with "Cloud Custodian '' which is a tool to schedule instances on-and-off during a certain time provided. For example, we would want to have those instances running between 9am to 5pm weekdays. This helps...

Amazon RDS on VMware

Amazon RDS on VMware

Amazon and VMware have jointly partnered to bring the battle tested Amazon RDS service in private data centres that has VMware vSphere clusters running. There is no doubt that VMware is the de facto Hypervisor of choice for Enterprise Data Centers around the world.

How To Rename a Local and Remote Git Branch ?

How To Rename a Local and Remote Git Branch ?

In software development, developers use the Version Control Systems(VCS) to manage and organize their team work in a central repository. According to the latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017, 69.2 percent of developers use Git, to define...

VPC Ingress Routing

VPC Ingress Routing

The VPC incoming network traffic would have to be forwarded to on-premises appliance or firewall in order to inspect the traffic and routed back to VPC which is not an ideal solution, it adds latency and complexity. A route table is associated with...

Future of Technologies: Blockchain

Future of Technologies: Blockchain

"Everything will be tokenized and connected by blockchain one day" - Fred Ehrsam Blockchain was invented by group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public transaction ledger of the crypto currency Bitcoin.What really...

Encrypting Systems Manager Sessions

Encrypting Systems Manager Sessions

I recently discovered that we can encrypt ec2 sessions launched via AWS Systems Manager. I figured it needs a few things in place to make it happen, A KMS key to be used for encrypting sessions with the following policy attached to it. Refrence...

Digging deep into dig command

Digging deep into dig command

DIG stands for Domain Information Groper. As the name suggests it is used to grab information from a DNS server. It is one of the most powerful yet most underrated utility. Sometimes we get overwhelmed by all the information that is shown and...

VPC Basics

VPC Basics

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is a virtual network infrastructure like a physical datacenter, which provides network connectivity to all the resources deployed in that VPC. There are few key concepts for VPCs which you should understand: VPC-...

Multi Tenancy in Telco Space

Multi Tenancy in Telco Space

Praveen Batta is a senior consultant and CTO-Ambassador at VMware. Serving the Telco Industry, focusing on Kubernetes, cloud technologies, and VMware solutions. He has 16 years of experience in multiple technologies, including:...

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

This is the second part of Instance Scheduler where I am going to explain how a lambda function which when invoked by CloudWatch rule, triggers a SNS notification which sends me an email. Every time the specified instance changes state (start,...

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 1

One fine day at work, I was playing around with "Cloud Custodian '' which is a tool to schedule instances on-and-off during a certain time provided. For example, we would want to have those instances running between 9am to 5pm weekdays. This helps...

Amazon RDS on VMware

Amazon RDS on VMware

Brief overview of Amazon RDS on VMwareAmazon and VMware have jointly partnered to bring the battle tested Amazon RDS service in private data centres that has VMware vSphere clusters running. There is no doubt that VMware is the de facto Hypervisor...

How To Rename a Local and Remote Git Branch ?

How To Rename a Local and Remote Git Branch ?

In software development, developers use the Version Control Systems(VCS) to manage and organize their team work in a central repository. According to the latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017, 69.2 percent of developers use Git, to define...