Let us also be aware: Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market on AWS, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of IAC. They give a Console and ask you to setup a specific Infra setup in AWS.
In my coaching I focus on the candidates to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience rather than pushing the course with screen operations only to complete. Through my posted videos you can watch this USP.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy with this knowledge.
Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners only by having dedicated time. If you are a busy resource on the projects please note; you can wait to become free to learn. One need to spend time consistently on the practice. Otherwise its going to be in no-use.
Let us also be aware: Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market on AWS, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of IAC. They give a Console and ask you to setup a specific Infra setup in AWS.
In my coaching I focus on the candidates to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience rather than pushing the course with screen operations only to complete. Through my posted videos you can watch this USP.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy with this knowledge.
Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners only by having dedicated time. If you are a busy resource on the projects please note; you can wait to become free to learn. One need to spend time consistently on the practice. Otherwise its going to be in no-use.
AWS POC: How to setup MYSQL DB data into Private Linux EC2 with NAT Instance ?
Folks,
In a typical Cloud cum DevOps projects environment, the Developers need their Dev environment setup, which should be done by Cloud engineers. This blog has the series of videos connected in this task completion. It has:
Requirement discussion.
Demo from VPC to the Private Instance with MYSQL setup.
Data upload.
Keep your re-visit activity on this site for IAC automation with YAML/JSON POCs Demos.
The below video contains a Developer’s requirement discussion:
Below video contains the solution demo of this POC:
Cloud projects level coaching: What TRADITIONAL IT ROLES Can attend/learn to convert into demanding IT Cloud roles ?
Folks, Learning on how to build Cloud technology related tasks became a common and mandated activity for any IT Role.
This is the first step one need to attempt to understand the environments building for their projects.
Whether you take Microservices or Legacy areas. Study this given blog/video for more details. Come back to discuss for your background/role needs, to scale you up perfectly to beat the competition. Good luck in your Career growth ladder.
Learn Cloud projects building through special coaching:
Many IT Organizations are having lack of skilled people on building the right cloud projects. Hence their Cloud budgets are increasing instead of savings towards ROI.
Here is the special coaching I have been doing since 4+ years for the desired IT professionals to groom them into the desired job skills.
See the below video on the coaching delivery methodology:
Learning Cloud technologies through basic skills are not enough to understand the Infra domain knowledge. One need to step into the shoes of project level tasks planning/designing/building is mandated to succeed in the job role.
Let us also be aware: Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market on AWS, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of IAC. They give a Console and ask you to setup a specific Infra setup in AWS.
In my coaching I focus on the candidates to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience rather than pushing the course with screen operations only to complete. Through my posted videos you can watch this USP.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy with this knowledge.
Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners only by having dedicated time. If you are a busy resource on the projects please note; you can wait to become free to learn. One need to spend time consistently on the practice. Otherwise its going to be in no-use.
AWS DevOps Course for Freshers with Project level tasks:
This course is designed for the Freshers by a three Decades globally experienced IT professional after studying many consulting projects and the skill gap issues of different project teams. They can show these course project tasks, done by them during the course, in their profile. The participant will be able to attend the interview for an AWS-DevOps fresher position, along with the live screen test without a Proxy interview. Interview preparation coaching will be given. During the job; they will be honored for their skills learnt from this course and self demonstration in the team to complete the project task before the schedule. This can add value for the candidate’s future appraisals and for their IT ladder growth. Its Purely, A job oriented course for Freshers with Live similar project activities through IT experienced professional. You will be enforced to do the tasks in the session. The Coacher/trainer will not touch the screen for lab demo. Note: All the tasks the student will do as a demo in the session. Before coming to the demo he/she need to practice through material given to them. This makes the participant highly self motivated with confidence on technical learning. It motivates them for the job activities also, during their job.
For the course details, watch the below video:
If somebody want to attend the Basic AWS Course, before understanding the AWS-DevOps course they can see the below video and come for a call to know the details on it.
NOTE: This play list contains the videos made on the list of AWS courses made for freshers. The freshers when they are in project, they need to understand the infrastructure requirements and their tasks. During the course they coached on these areas well. And also they will be enforced to do some project activities with a requirement. And they need to present it in a team. This can give very high confidence to them not only to perform well in the interviews and also on the live project activity comparatively with many proxy interviews managed freshers.
Folks, Greetings! This message is for Test Analysts only——> I am planning to conduct some orientation on the usage of Cloud/DevOps practices by the Test Analysts [these are the so called; the legacy Block-Box Testing professionals]. I also run my DevOps Practices group in FB with 600+ Pure global IT professionals. They keep learning through my Cloud/DevOps learning Units. It works well upto knowing the concepts and not to play the project role. To join in any of my groups the following are must to accept as member: 1. You need to connect on Linkedin and send message on which group you want to join. 2. Then come to FB and connect me there with the same message. 3. I am removing the risks with fake ids through the above steps. Hence be patient to follow the above to move further. Please note; I do not allow any marketing people into my group. Only the hardcore IT professionals are allowed after FB/Linkedin profile verification. These extensive efforts are made to educate the real IT professionals to transform into modern IT Stuff easily. Once they learn the concepts they can decide on which role they want to proceed to learn the advanced stuff through my coaching, if needed. Good luck in your Career.
You can see my below blog also:
How Easily A Test Analyst can learn AWS with POCs ?
If you are a Black-box Testing Savvy years together and struck in learning Cloud technology, not able to coupe up for building modern test environments, this is the golden opportunity to learn and compete with others in the projects. After the course you will be able to define/design/execute your test environments in AWS.
Send a message to book for a review call after reviewing the below content/videos.
Are you a Test Analyst ?
Did you do only black-box testing earlier ?
Do you have confusion on learning Cloud computing ?
Do you feel aloof for transforming into Cloud technology ?
Do you need to setup the Test environment with Cloud only ?
Are you not able to catch up the technology skill which job role demands ?
Look for my customized course details for A Test analyst:
We have solutions for your issues, we coach Test Analysts to convert into modern Cloud technology usage [AWS only]. You can learn and do the practice like your black-box test cases. Check the below discussion videos also with a Sr. Test Analyst for AWS course:
Also look into the below video for a lab exercise like your test script steps to easily understand and build the required AWS service.
Look for a NON-IT Compliance Test Engineer performance from the below blogs, connected demos and review calls.
If you are really would like to perform the same way through this course connect me on linkedin to know each of us.
I have made the below video after having calls with many Cloud professionals globally. Many of the Cloud Engineers are failing due to lack of the domain based skills. Even recently in top notch tech news sites they have published on how the Cloud projects are costing more inspite of saving the cost to the organizations. It is eventual to learn the domain based skills for the Cloud/DevOps professionals to meet the delivery cycle time.
Lack of Cloud skills for DevOps Engineer -2 [FAQs]: This video talks on the possibility of lack of Skills for some of the AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineers. Most of the IT employers are looking from the Cloud or DevOps engineers the Environment building automatically with DevOps process/IAC. In this video the DevOps process and its automation process is discussed for feasible interview questions by mapping to the AWS-DevOps. And what role people can learn by self and who are the roles can not learn by self with the reasons.
How A Cloud architect is different from DevOps practices ?
We have been watching on lot of FB Groups and ad sites as “learn DevOps/AWS”. In general everybody believe with these stickers/posters they need to learn AWS and DevOps together is a must for any Modern technology professional.
When we talk about AWS and DevOps they are two different work streams.
Now, one might get the below questions in their mind.
Is a Cloud Architect need to be expert to work on DevOps activities also ?
What are the activities related to Cloud architect ?
Why the Cloud architect need not bother on DevOps ?
Now, let us analyze them as below:
The role of the cloud architect is to migrate the existing IT infrastructure setup into the cloud services. The cloud services can be AWS or Azure or Google cloud [GC] or Alibaba, etc.
From the below picture one can have clarity if they have experience in traditional Infrastructure building practice.
This role need to understand clearly on the usage of those vendor related [AWS/AZURE/GC/Alibaba] cloud services and should have command on mapping the current traditional infrastructure setup to map to the cloud services and plan/design for its transformation with the additional benefits to the management in view of cost and easy operation.
Once the modern application architecture/infrastructure in cloud is operational, then the management can think of introducing the DevOps practices.
To work on DevOps practices, each Cloud services vendor provides their own setup or tools at different processes or pipeline stages. To do these tasks a separate role professionals are required, who are called DevOps Engineers. At this point the role of the cloud Architect is he/she can guide them on the available infrastructure with the Cloud vendor. As per the Cloud architect planning/guidelines the DevOps engineers need to adopt the relevant tools/processes. Basically all the setup is going to be on IAC [Infrastructure As A Code] technics. There can be Configuration tools to create the IAC for different environments. At this point the Cloud architect can monitor these tools implementation as a part of cloud infrastructure implementation.
So, the Cloud architect do not need to make his/her fingers dirty with tools/commands to implement the DevOps processes.
For example; If you read the roles of AWS with different certifications, they mention Solution Architect [SA] separately from DevOps engineer role. They have multiple roles like; Sys ops, Developer, etc. All these roles need to be expert in making their fingers dirty with the relevant AWS services usage/implementation efficiently and effectively . But here the Cloud Architect [which is SA in view of AWS] role is to monitor on their activities only. He/She doesn’t need to put the fingers into techie stuff.
Hope I have given clarity for the above questions.
I get lot of enquiries; as they want to do AWS/DevOps both the courses together. I understood due to lot of training vendors are making their posters on social for their business, these experienced professionals are getting confusion as they need to learn both.
Now, I would like to ask the below questions to you as this blog reader after the above understanding;
Do a modern technology professional need to learn Cloud services and also the DevOps as mandatory ? [Ex: Which is DevOps/AWS].
Answer:It is not. They can choose One route only. If he/she came from the real work experience of Sysadmin/Sys engineer role, the past experiences need to be utilized efficiently in IT Industry. Hence the Scalable role is Cloud architect. In view of AWS it is SA. But they need to have very good command in understanding the traditional architecture and also the cloud services to establish a well suited conversion plan. This role person is responsible to show ROI [Return On Investment] also to the management.
You can also compare the SAA Salary among all the roles being played with AWS:
See the difference on the salary amounts to seek your role as per your professional potentiality.
Question: In the current job market in the JDs they ask on DevOps also for Cloud role why ?
Answer: Please let us note; Many organizations they wanted to use the same resource for Cloud and DevOps Architect/Engineer role to save their IT budget. But they offer more salary for these multi skills. Not only this scenario, there are many companies use multi-cloud technology for their BCP. They will ask these skills also. The skills acceleration is mandated for every Professional now a days. The more skills you acquire the early, your CTC is going to touch the Sky ASAP.
Folks, How to Join in my Facebook groups to learn Cloud cum DevOps Concepts ? For any Trainings many people conduct demos by catching the IT Professionals through their sales people. That demo denotes the trainer has the technical capabilities to handle the course for the attendees. In my coaching also I have followed the similar concept. But I don’t give demos by spending time, as I work as alone. In my case I have created the groups in Facebook: a) DevOps Practices Group, b) Cloud Practices Group c) Free Learning Agile/DevOps/AWS/AZ for freshers and IT Professionals. With few of the web pages by IT topic.
One can learn and assess them by joining. For more details you can watch this video. To join in them, you need to connect with me on FB and Linkedin and send a message. Then only you will be approved. This is a verification process to avoid fake ids.
In recent years, the IT industry has undergone significant changes due to the rise of cloud computing and DevOps. As a result, many traditional ITSM (IT Service Management) professionals are finding themselves in a challenging situation. They must either adapt to these new methodologies and tools or risk becoming obsolete. In this blog post, we will discuss how traditional ITSM professionals can convert into Cloud/DevOps roles and the skills they need to be groomed to make this transition.
First, let’s understand the difference between ITSM, Cloud, and DevOps. ITSM is a set of best practices for managing and delivering IT services to meet business needs. Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing resources such as servers, storage, and applications over the internet. DevOps is a methodology that focuses on collaboration between development and operations teams to deliver software faster and more reliably.
Now, to move from ITSM to Cloud/DevOps, traditional ITSM professionals must learn the relevant tools and methodologies. Cloud and DevOps are all about automation, scalability, and flexibility. Therefore, professionals need to have a good understanding of cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and automation tools like AWS, Azure, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
Apart from technical skills, professionals need to develop their soft skills, such as collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills. These skills are essential for working effectively in a DevOps team where communication and collaboration are critical.
To learn these skills, professionals can attend training programs, read relevant books and articles, and participate in online communities. Many online courses and certifications are available, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, and Google Cloud DevOps Engineer.
Moreover, professionals need to gain hands-on experience by working on projects that involve cloud infrastructure and automation tools. They can start by participating in hackathons, contributing to open-source projects, or building their projects to gain practical knowledge.
In conclusion, traditional ITSM professionals must adapt to the changing IT landscape and acquire new skills to stay relevant. They must be willing to learn and embrace new methodologies and tools to succeed in their careers. COEs (Centers of Excellence) can play a significant role in providing training and support for professionals to make this transition. By doing so, IT companies can retain their knowledgeable employees and stay competitive in the market. At the same time, individuals must take responsibility for their careers and seek expert coaching to make this transition smoothly.
Rebuild Your IT career from ITSM to Infra and DevOps building with traditional exp.
I have not included the real ITSM roles. Those also can utilize into the conversion. Case to case it can be discussed. Each Organization has their own title and using them for ITSM delivery also. These role guys can work easily for implementing the IT governance in Cloud/DevOps comparatively with other roles.
This is the Stage1 Course Highlight. You will be coached for the concepts of JSON/YAML scripts towards writing the AWS Cloud service components creation. Your personal practice efforts are mandated here.
Also be aware on the below points [Published in a blog also] :
I feel; For every DevOps Professional learning Infra building activity is mandatory. See the issues, what you are facing within them. Atleast one of them you are facing from your end as mentioned in the below slide/video. Then there is a gap in your implementation practice with lack of learning in a right method with best practices. So think on your actions after the below videos watching!
The new Internship programme is made for the working IT Professionals, AS PART TIME. WHICH IS ONGOING.
Please see the below blog for details and also watch the discussion with a new participant on the size of the POCs during the coaching:
If you are in the below roles, in the current recession you will be targeted for pinkslip among the IT professionals as 1st exit group. What you need to do on your career replan. Please see/follow the blog/videos with patience.
As per my observation and practice with the trending technology [Cloud], all the Cloud services vendors have inbuilt serverless computing for many services. The following roles are going to be vanished or reskilled. But if they are kept under recession staff cut, these professionals need to take care of their career.
1. DBA:–>The DBA tasks are embedded as part of these services. So the DBAs used to sit hours together in the past to perform many mundane tasks. Now these all are automated.
2. Similarly, many other tasks are related to infra roles; Network admin/Sys-Admin are also automated through Cloud services.
3. As a consolidation all these 3 roles are clubbed into one role of Cloud Engineer. This role’s major task is to automate all the Cloud setup related activities under IAC[Infrastructure As Code]. In future only the IAC will sustain to save the cost to IT by automating the cloud setup creation activity.
4. If any professional need to compete with this role means; they need to understand the Infra needs and the past roles tasks in depth. Along with the multiple Infra related architecture scenarios, with in-depth knowledge on Cloud technology. Then only they can analyze the IAC requirements clearly to write the code and test it. This is the domain analysis and design activity they need to consider apart from the Cloud technology learning.
5. We can also see the Storage engineer role. All the Cloud vendors have the Cloud Storage services. With them mundane tasks creation/maintenance is vanished. Hence this role also will not exist.
The below video has the discussion on: A) What IT Roles can vanish after migrating to Cloud? B) How the roles/tasks are being transformed to Cloud through serverless computing technology ? C) Why anybody can learn and do the past Infra roles with Cloud ? D) What all they need to learn ? E) How the organizations can demand an employee to convert into modern technology before taking a decision for a pink slip serving ? Finally, what are the following roles and their tasks: Traditional Infrastructure building roles: 1.Network Admin/Engineer 2.System Administrator 3.Database Administrator 4. Deployment Engineer
5. Storage Engineer — There is a separate video done for this role education:
F) Among the above which role can pickup faster the Cloud/DevOps Automation technology ? G) Then How these roles can perform in Cloud with faster deployment ? H) Why and how the manpower reduction happen after Cloud implementation ?
I) Why do you need to learn from the experienced IT mentors to transform into modern technology ?
K) Some people say, they can learn by self. How much they can learn and cope-up with the current market needs on various technologies to settle in modern technology ? [refer to point#5 in this blog].
L) Why do you need to spend/invest more money to re-settle in the modern technology ?
Note: Along with this video, there are multiple blogs I have published with Videos links to make awareness to the IT Professionals. You see those blogs from this site itself.
For further understanding please read the below text:
In the current IT World Cloud computing became regular practice for any IT Professional. Any cloud services we use, we need to know the current/traditional infrastructure setup. But every IT professional may not have that background/knowledge to understand. Because in this industry each of us played different roles.
The Infra activities handled IT Professional only will come to know this knowledge and will have experience. But the industry needs every IT employee need to know this knowledge apart from the Cloud service provider [Ex: AWS, Azure, GC, etc..] products operations. [Eventhough, if you are a certified Solutions architect with that Cloud service provider.]
Then only whoever the professionals are certified they will be able to use these products/services and implement them under cloud setup. Hence the Infra domain knowledge or experience is mandated for every IT professional who is working for Cloud services or in that infra setup. I have been hearing during Cloud professionals recruitment the interviewers are keeping some questions on this area also. If one understand the Network domain setup then only they will be able to design the Cloud architecture. Hence more employers are worried to have this domain knowledge with the Certified and recruited Cloud professionals.
I have started a Cloud Practices group to educate/share the IT professionals with this domain knowledge. The below link can be used to join/apply:
Most of the Blogs on websites are operated by WordPress[WP] software which is developed in PHP. Even my site [vskumar.blog] is from this software. To setup the WP, there are tier based architecture/setup required. For PHP related software we can have a 2-tier architecture setup.
In this demo video the WP site building project was discussed with different design steps towards AWS components and it was demonstrated well by one of our [experienced IT Professional] students well.
These are weekly assignments they get and they need to prove by themselves with a demo in a team; like live environment how it happens in a typical project team. By attending this activity delivery on weekly basis, one will not get any fear/scareness on doing the live infra tasks. They will be habituated with the project activities when they join in real job. And they will be productive resources from day one onwards. These are the major benefits from my course.
When we have two networks in traditional methods, we used to do internal networking within the premises. And used those servers for Software APIs. Also the Sysadmin/DBAs/Network Admin role people used to manage them well. But in Cloud how to implement this kind of setup ?
Now, In Cloud how this internetworking can be done through VPC peering ?
Watch this introduction chapter before you go to the below POCs:
In this POC project, it is well proven how we can create such kind of environment by using 2 VPCs and their peering with deeper analysis and the design steps of different services. And how the private subnet related Linux and Windows EC2s can be accessed by using NAT and Jump Servers?. And how to operate another VPC EC2 from one VPC EC2 ? Just watch this design steps analysis video from the below link:
In the below video a POC analysis is discussed with an Experienced Cloud/DevOps professional.
Watch the below video for How to config NATGATEWAY and use it for Private EC2 MySql config.
For a live VPC Peered POC, you can visit the below blog:
Please watch the below video[It has the detailed JD]:
Please contact if you are really an experienced Professional for Mock interviews practice. I do this as a separate service for global IT Professionals, who are trying for Next role scaling.
A mock interview with an exceptional course POCs performer.
I filter the in-experienced [fake profiled] people in the beginning itself. Hence please be open with me with your profile. Please Let us not waste time.
What is Proxy interview ? [For client who conduct overseas or offsite interview]:
Instead of the candidate answering the questions by a Subject matter expert he/she talks.
These people might have attended 1000s of proxy interviews. You can identify they are very confident in the communication/subject, etc.. You will not find with them any defect!! So there woud’nt be rejection from you. [Infact, they are very hardworkers by doing several POCs practice with reference to the JDs.] Obviously you are forced to select. You might feel you did video interview also. There is a secret you need to understand. This guy sits in the back end of the monitor. The real guy sits infront of the Camera. So you will compare the photo and his face. You will not find any defect in the face right ? How the proxy guy can talk ? There will be splitter kind of equipment connect to the computer to have 2 headsets. So can you find a defect here ? No, it is hard for you to trace!!! The proxy organizers are very talented like hackers. You try to implement a security practice for interview, they identify a loop hole like a hacker and use it to get the approval done by you.
So you are royally! cheated very well to give the offer!!
Where and how these proxy organizing companies work ?
There are numerous body shoppers companies in North America. They take the OPT guys in the 2nd year and groom them to make their mind lazy by giving support by SME and job support also after they started working. They pay around 20-30% of your billing to the candidate and balance to SMEs/Profit share.
During the job how can you find this categories ?:
You avoid giving work from home options. Do a random smoke test daily. The poor guy will be exposed! and be helpless. He/she fails!! Because your greatest IT vendor molded him/her to make their mind lazy!! as impossible to learn anddepend on SME like a drug edict.
For Candidates [Who had Proxy interview]:
What happens after proxy interview in the companies. You may get offer. But they do a smoke test kind of weekly tests. Then You will be burnt due to the client has got some feeling you are not the person spoke to them with the subject expertism during the interview. Hence we have come up with a proposal to get you self ready for interviews. Read the above content and come back for a discussion in a scheduled call. We want the people to self build themselves and not to get into the wrong shoes!! to become like a drug addict!!
For Freshers and intending to attend Proxy interviews !
Are you getting into the wrong shoes [Proxy] for client interviews ?
After you join in job [in India] what happens ?
Are you aware; your profile is going to be in Indian NASSCOM DB to track by your future employers [for Indian jobs].
So, whatever the current employer has the faked profile it is going to be entered by HRs after you are proved as fake profile, into NASSCOM DB.
In such case are you going to be into a right company in future ?
Do you want to destroy your career by proxy agents ?
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Following are the Industry competent courses, the 10+ yrs global IT working professionals are [inclined and] doing currently to become Cloud/DevOps Architects for future IT Needs. Once the basic Infra is made in the Cloud, they need to operate the DevOps Automation only.
It has Stage1 and Stage2 courses. The TOC is discussed in detail, in the below videos: [for any questions please ping me in FB or Linkedin].
Please watch the below video[It has the detailed JD]:
Please contact if you are really an experienced Professional for Mock interviews practice. I do this as a separate service for global IT Professionals, who are trying for Next role scaling.
I filter the in-experienced [fake profiled] people in the beginning itself. Hence please be open with me with your profile. Please Let us not waste time.
What is Proxy interview ? [For client who conduct overseas or offsite interview]:
Instead of the candidate answering the questions by a Subject matter expert he/she talks.
These people might have attended 1000s of proxy interviews. You can identify they are very confident in the communication/subject, etc.. You will not find with them any defect!! So there woud’nt be rejection from you. [Infact, they are very hardworkers by doing several POCs practice with reference to the JDs.] Obviously you are forced to select. You might feel you did video interview also. There is a secret you need to understand. This guy sits in the back end of the monitor. The real guy sits infront of the Camera. So you will compare the photo and his face. You will not find any defect in the face right ? How the proxy guy can talk ? There will be splitter kind of equipment connect to the computer to have 2 headsets. So can you find a defect here ? No, it is hard for you to trace!!! The proxy organizers are very talented like hackers. You try to implement a security practice for interview, they identify a loop hole like a hacker and use it to get the approval done by you.
So you are royally! cheated very well to give the offer!!
Where and how these proxy organizing companies work ?
There are numerous body shoppers companies in North America. They take the OPT guys in the 2nd year and groom them to make their mind lazy by giving support by SME and job support also after they started working. They pay around 20-30% of your billing to the candidate and balance to SMEs/Profit share.
During the job how can you find this categories ?:
You avoid giving work from home options. Do a random smoke test daily. The poor guy will be exposed! and be helpless. He/she fails!! Because your greatest IT vendor molded him/her to make their mind lazy!! as impossible to learn anddepend on SME like a drug edict.
For Candidates [Who had Proxy interview]:
What happens after proxy interview in the companies. You may get offer. But they do a smoke test kind of weekly tests. Then You will be burnt due to the client has got some feeling you are not the person spoke to them with the subject expertism during the interview. Hence we have come up with a proposal to get you self ready for interviews. Read the above content and come back for a discussion in a scheduled call. We want the people to self build themselves and not to get into the wrong shoes!! to become like a drug addict!!
For Freshers and intending to attend Proxy interviews !
Are you getting into the wrong shoes [Proxy] for client interviews ?
After you join in job [in India] what happens ?
Are you aware; your profile is going to be in Indian NASSCOM DB to track by your future employers [for Indian jobs].
So, whatever the current employer has the faked profile it is going to be entered by HRs after you are proved as fake profile, into NASSCOM DB.
In such case are you going to be into a right company in future ?
Do you want to destroy your career by proxy agents ?
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Following are the Industry competent courses, the 10+ yrs global IT working professionals are [inclined and] doing currently to become Cloud/DevOps Architects for future IT Needs. Once the basic Infra is made in the Cloud, they need to operate the DevOps Automation only.
It has Stage1 and Stage2 courses. The TOC is discussed in detail, in the below videos: [for any questions please ping me in FB or Linkedin].
There is a third phase skills upgrade required for the keen people to scale up their profile into Platform Architect either Openshift or Rancher. But looks like from the screened JDs, OpenShift demand is more. Go through the below blog for details:
Folks, After the Massive Global recession in IT also. The Cloud/DevOps automation roles will be in hectic demand. If one learns the below discussed skills they are the hot professionals in the global IT for higher/self demanding CTC. The IT market will be dry for these skills.
What is IAAS and how it can be used from traditional setup to the Virtual/Cloud setup ?
What is PAAS and how it can be used from development/customization of the tools ?
What is SAAS and how these can be hosted into the Virtual/Cloud setup ?
If you have a Payroll application and running regularly. And now you found Cloud infra is a sophisticated one rather using the old or outdated systems, you called a Cloud expert. And what questions you need to ask him/her ? How he should answer to provide the solutions ?
This video has the above discussions with different scenarios. Once can brush up their interview skills well on these aspects.
Maximizing ROI in Cloud/DevOps: The Benefits of Coaching for IT Professionals
In today’s economy, businesses are constantly looking for ways to cut costs. Unfortunately, one of the first places they tend to look is the IT department. With many companies facing employee reductions due to the current global situation, it’s possible that up to 50-40% of IT professionals may lose their jobs.
So what can IT professionals do to safeguard their careers? One solution is to become a Cloud cum DevOps Architect. This is a highly in-demand role that requires expertise in both multi-cloud management and DevOps automation. According to IT research articles, the market for this combination of skills is expected to grow rapidly, and there will soon be a shortage of professionals with these abilities.
To become a Cloud cum DevOps Architect, IT professionals need to develop a range of technical skills. They must be able to plan and execute end-to-end engagements, including infrastructure and DevOps automation. This requires a deep understanding of cloud technologies and the ability to implement them effectively.
To gain these skills, IT professionals can take advantage of expert coaching and training. Coaching can help them learn the most effective techniques for managing cloud infrastructure and automating DevOps processes. They can also learn about the latest tools and technologies that are driving innovation in the field.
If you have more than five years of experience working in IT, becoming a Cloud cum DevOps Architect could be a smart career move. By investing in coaching and training, you can increase your marketability and become a valuable asset to any organization.
So, what should you do next? First, assess your current skills and knowledge to identify any gaps that need to be filled. Then, seek out the resources you need to fill those gaps, such as online courses or expert coaching. With dedication and hard work, you can become a skilled Cloud cum DevOps Architect and take your career to new heights.
If you are more than 5 years Infra role experienced IT working Professional [from any country], you can become Cloud cum DevOps Architect by learning through experts coaching with live implementable activities.
There will be market crunch for this combinational skills and dryness happens very soon as per the IT research articles.
For course details, Read the below blogs and watch the videos.
I coach the keen learners, who are working IT Professionals [globally].
Why the DevOps practice team is required to involve in Infra cloud planning?
I was talking to some clients recently on the importance of Cloud migration activities planning. I have come with some guidelines for them as part of my engagement. Some of my guidelines given to them, I would like to share as below.
When the DevOps practice team need to do the infra setup for a cloud migration they also need to participate on the identification of Infra activities and the specifications. Which is very essential.
This need to be done as initial step with any Cloud services migration.
As per my opinion we can work with any cloud services like; AWS/AZURE/Google Cloud, etc., by having the above activity as mandatory.
The attached blog/Video contains the same discussion with the details of the steps required to setup a Virtual Private Cloud. The VPC nomenclature we might have seen with AWS. But similar setup or name cane be there with other Cloud service providers also.
Once this VPC is created the systems are going to be hosted on Cloud.
The Ops team’s responsibility is; to make sure the Cloud migration is correctly and completely done for all the live setup.
At the same time they also need to conduct a pilot testing activity successfully which is mandated as per the Agile Projects management [Agile PM] standards before they announce go live.
They also need to do a parallel run along with the past production setup with a new cloud setup for few weeks.
Below URL contains the initial planning discussion as mentioned:
Folks, I feel the IT individual professional need to learn a lot on the accelerating modern technology to implement. A self driven learning can boost the candidate like an Immunity boost to the human Body.
Many people can not do this by self. They need the boosters.
My coaching can work like a booster for you to self motivate and create a courage and confidence to implement these practices. In this post I would like to share the below.
For the course/coaching feedback reviews, from IT and NON-IT Professionals visit:
Following is on the Mock interviews service which I offer:
I have conducted the Mock interviews for One experienced DevOps Sr. professional on the below roles, who attended a crash course in 2 months duration. He gained lot of courage and confidence later on. Now he is a Platform Architect. [not interested to reveal his details, as many people are disturbing him to clarify their non-sense doubts without understanding the value of this course and the curriculum, even after provided the courses specimen openly through blogs/videos]:
1. Cloud Architect role
2. DevOps Architect Partner role
3. DevOps Engineer role
I have listed the above roles related video only in the below blog. He also attended for Sr.SRE roles also.
After completion of two stages of my coaching I do the above kind of mock interviews for my students.
But there is a separate mock interview service also I offer for the experienced Cloud/DevOps Professionals to groom them for interviews. Not for the fake profiles. I reject the fake profiles in my 1st 1-2 calls only.
You can attend “practice mock interviews” sessions. See the samples.
For mock interview on DevOps-Architect practices consulting position:
For a DevOps Engineer – Mock Interview:
READ READ READ CAREFULLY!!! FOR ORIGINAL IT PROFESSIONALS ONLY
HOW PROXY interview companies ARE BEING OPERATED ?
How they have been stealing your jobs in the IT Market ?
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR THE ORIGINAL IT PROFESSIONALS AND NOT FOR THE PROXY ORAGANIZERS TO CONTACT.
What is Proxy interview ? [For client who conduct overseas or offsite interview]:
Instead of the candidate answering the questions by a Subject matter expert he/she talks.
These people might have attended 1000s of proxy interviews. You can identify they are very confident in the communication/subject, etc.. You will not find with them any defect!! So there woud’nt be rejection from you. [Infact, they are very hardworkers by doing several POCs practice with reference to the JDs.] Obviously you are forced to select. You might feel you did video interview also. There is a secret you need to understand. This guy sits in the back end of the monitor. The real guy sits infront of the Camera. So you will compare the photo and his face. You will not find any defect in the face right ? How the proxy guy can talk ? There will be splitter kind of equipment connect to the computer to have 2 headsets. So can you find a defect here ? No, it is hard for you to trace!!! The proxy organizers are very talented like hackers. You try to implement a security practice for interview, they identify a loop hole like a hacker and use it to get the approval done by you.
So you are royally! cheated very well to give the offer!!
Where and how these proxy organizing companies work ?
There are numerous body shoppers companies in North America. They take the OPT guys in the 2nd year and groom them to make their mind lazy by giving support by SME and job support also after they started working. They pay around 20-30% of your billing to the candidate and balance to SMEs/Profit share.
During the job how can you find this categories ?:
You avoid giving work from home options. Do a random smoke test daily. The poor guy will be exposed! and be helpless. He/she fails!! Because your greatest IT vendor molded him/her to make their mind lazy!! as impossible to learn anddepend on SME like a drug edict.
For Candidates [Who had Proxy interview]:
What happens after proxy interview in the companies. You may get offer. But they do a smoke test kind of weekly tests. Then You will be burnt due to the client has got some feeling you are not the person spoke to them with the subject expertism during the interview. Hence we have come up with a proposal to get you self ready for interviews. Read the above content and come back for a discussion in a scheduled call. We want the people to self build themselves and not to get into the wrong shoes!! to become like a drug addict!!
For Freshers and intending to attend Proxy interviews !
Are you getting into the wrong shoes [Proxy] for client interviews ?
After you join in job [in India] what happens ?
Are you aware; your profile is going to be in Indian NASSCOM DB to track by your future employers [for Indian jobs].
So, whatever the current employer has the faked profile it is going to be entered by HRs after you are proved as fake profile, into NASSCOM DB.
In such case are you going to be into a right company in future ?
Do you want to destroy your career by proxy agents ?
Visit the below blog/video also for SRE Engineer role discussion:
What Roles can vanish in IT after Cloud implementation ?:
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Please note this is going to be methodical coaching with lot of process related scenarios for each sub-topics as per the AWS Certification course contents. Hence we have our USP to differentiate with many others on this coaching. We consider very limited/selective people. Hence sharing you linkedin profile is mandatory. You can connect me there. Before coming please watch all the videos on this webpage and also on youtube channel [Shanthi Kumar V]. We take care of each IT working professional for their career growth well in this competent world to beat the fake profiles well during the job/client interviews. This is the unique services provided by us well in this IT training/coaching industry. We want the existing IT Professionals to continue their ladder climbing.
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In the Cloud/DevOps modern technology, the Automation became popular to save the manpower and the IT Budget. Among the IT Roles these roles are going to be the demanding ones always. With any technology or tools need to be followed this process.
What areas can be used for automation ?
What are the technology/tools can be used ?
In the below video a POC analysis is discussed with an Experienced Cloud/DevOps professional.
If you are in the below roles, in the current recession you will be targeted for pinkslip among the IT professionals as 1st exit group. What you need to do on your career replan. Please see/follow the blog/videos with patience.
As per my observation and practice with the trending technology [Cloud], all the Cloud services vendors have inbuilt serverless computing for many services. The following roles are going to be vanished or reskilled. But if they are kept under recession staff cut, these professionals need to take care of their career.
1. DBA:–>The DBA tasks are embedded as part of these services. So the DBAs used to sit hours together in the past to perform many mundane tasks. Now these all are automated.
2. Similarly, many other tasks are related to infra roles; Network admin/Sys-Admin are also automated through Cloud services.
3. As a consolidation all these 3 roles are clubbed into one role of Cloud Engineer. This role’s major task is to automate all the Cloud setup related activities under IAC[Infrastructure As Code]. In future only the IAC will sustain to save the cost to IT by automating the cloud setup creation activity.
4. If any professional need to compete with this role means; they need to understand the Infra needs and the past roles tasks in depth. Along with the multiple Infra related architecture scenarios, with in-depth knowledge on Cloud technology. Then only they can analyze the IAC requirements clearly to write the code and test it. This is the domain analysis and design activity they need to consider apart from the Cloud technology learning.
5. We can also see the Storage engineer role. All the Cloud vendors have the Cloud Storage services. With them mundane tasks creation/maintenance is vanished. Hence this role also will not exist.
The below video has the discussion on: A) What IT Roles can vanish after migrating to Cloud? B) How the roles/tasks are being transformed to Cloud through serverless computing technology ? C) Why anybody can learn and do the past Infra roles with Cloud ? D) What all they need to learn ? E) How the organizations can demand an employee to convert into modern technology before taking a decision for a pink slip serving ? Finally, what are the following roles and their tasks: Traditional Infrastructure building roles: 1.Network Admin/Engineer 2.System Administrator 3.Database Administrator 4. Deployment Engineer
F) Among the above which role can pickup faster the Cloud/DevOps Automation technology ? G) Then How these roles can perform in Cloud with faster deployment ? H) Why and how the manpower reduction happen after Cloud implementation ?
I) Why do you need to learn from the experienced IT mentors to transform into modern technology ?
K) Some people say, they can learn by self. How much they can learn and cope-up with the current market needs on various technologies to settle in modern technology ? [refer to point#5 in this blog].
L) Why do you need to spend/invest more money to re-settle in the modern technology ?
Note: Along with this video, there are multiple blogs I have published with Videos links to make awareness to the IT Professionals. You see those blogs from this site itself.
For further understanding please read the below text:
In the current IT World Cloud computing became regular practice for any IT Professional. Any cloud services we use, we need to know the current/traditional infrastructure setup. But every IT professional may not have that background/knowledge to understand. Because in this industry each of us played different roles.
The Infra activities handled IT Professional only will come to know this knowledge and will have experience. But the industry needs every IT employee need to know this knowledge apart from the Cloud service provider [Ex: AWS, Azure, GC, etc..] products operations. [Eventhough, if you are a certified Solutions architect with that Cloud service provider.]
Then only whoever the professionals are certified they will be able to use these products/services and implement them under cloud setup. Hence the Infra domain knowledge or experience is mandated for every IT professional who is working for Cloud services or in that infra setup. I have been hearing during Cloud professionals recruitment the interviewers are keeping some questions on this area also. If one understand the Network domain setup then only they will be able to design the Cloud architecture. Hence more employers are worried to have this domain knowledge with the Certified and recruited Cloud professionals.
I have started a Cloud Practices group to educate/share the IT professionals with this domain knowledge. The below link can be used to join/apply:
Why do you need to learn from Infra domain knowledge as certified Cloud Professional ?
In the current IT World Cloud computing became regular practice for any IT Professional. Any cloud services we use, we need to know the current/traditional infrastructure setup. But every IT professional may not have that background/knowledge to understand. Because in this industry each of us played different roles.
The Infra activities handled IT Professional only will come to know this knowledge and will have experience. But the industry needs every IT employee need to know this knowledge apart from the Cloud service provider [Ex: AWS, Azure, GC, etc..] products operations. [Eventhough, if you are a certified Solutions architect with that Cloud service provider.]
Then only whoever the professionals are certified they will be able to use these products/services and implement them under cloud setup. Hence the Infra domain knowledge or experience is mandated for every IT professional who is working for Cloud services or in that infra setup. I have been hearing during Cloud professionals recruitment the interviewers are keeping some questions on this area also. If one understand the Network domain setup then only they will be able to design the Cloud architecture. Hence more employers are worried to have this domain knowledge with the Certified and recruited Cloud professionals.
I have started a Cloud Practices group to educate/share the IT professionals with this domain knowledge. The below link can be used to join/apply:
I have designed my courses with reference to the current IT industry needs and most of the employers what they are looking/demanding for, with Cloud/DevOps skills and the Infrastructure knowledge from the new resource/recruitment. This is Only for Working IT Professionals please.
After completion of Stage1 & Stage2 courses you will be expert in doing the Infra and DevOps Automation. A case scenario is discussed in the below blog/video, should watch it. And also know how the participant are doing like a real project documentation with IAC design and code steps:
Please watch the below videos and their detailed descriptions. Connect me on linkedin [ www.linkedin.com/in/vskumaritpractices ] or on Facebook to know your profile.
For Stage1 Toc, watch the below video:
For stage2 TOC, Watch this video:
Remember; once you complete the courses of Stage1 and Stage2, in the job day one onwards you will be able to perform the tasks after understanding their [client] Infra/Cloud setup.
During the course attending, My course tasks are discussed for any Keen learner. He/she will be following the same to achieve the planned goals on that activity.
Finally when you are able to complete the Stage2 course you be doing the Infra Automation. AWS Recommends the 6 Application Migration Strategies; called as “The 6 R’s”. I have drafted the further process to follow during automation in the below video description.
The following videos has the discussion on it:
What are the skills required for a Cloud Architect ?
You can watch the below video.
NOTE:
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy with this knowledge.
Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners only by having dedicated time. If you are a busy resource on the projects please note; you can wait to become free to learn. One need to spend time consistently on the practice. Otherwise its going to be in no-use.
I have made the similar Curriculum for Azure and GCP also on the same roles.
For our students latest demos visit the below blog:
This video talks on the possibility of lack of Skills for some of the Cloud/DevOps Engineers. In continuation of my previous blogs/videos; This video contains the discussion on the “Analysis of Firewall activities from traditional role to AWS”. You can get answers for the below image contained questions through the discussions with an experienced IT Professional.
When we talk about user ids in AWS or any Cloud some [Non-AWS Practiced] people feel user ids of IAM and EC2s are the same. But not!
IAM user ids are made to access particular services of AWS Platform through some of the groups Privileges. These Groups are embeded with AWS policies to have access on the services.
Where as EC2 is a Virtual Machine [can be either Linux OS or Windows server]. It needs the users to access. Like your physical machines have the used ids, the VM also has them.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy with this knowledge.
Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners only by having dedicated time. If you are a busy resource on the projects please note; you can wait to become free to learn. One need to spend time consistently on the practice. Otherwise its going to be in no-use.
Possible AWS Interview Questions for a Firewall Engineer experienced professional.
NOTE:
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy with this knowledge.
Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners only by having dedicated time. If you are a busy resource on the projects please note; you can wait to become free to learn. One need to spend time consistently on the practice. Otherwise its going to be in no-use.
Let us also be aware: Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market on AWS, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of IAC. They give a Console and ask you to setup a specific Infra setup in AWS.
In my coaching I focus on the candidates to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience rather than pushing the course with screen operations only to complete. Through my posted videos you can watch this USP.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy with this knowledge.
Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners only by having dedicated time. If you are a busy resource on the projects please note; you can wait to become free to learn. One need to spend time consistently on the practice. Otherwise its going to be in no-use.
Please note; every Cloud/DevOps/Test Engineer need to drive the infra setup tasks through IAC scripts only, when they are advanced in infra setup understanding. For every infra setup tasks they should be able to step down to develop these IAC scripts by using different tools. In AWS, we can use CF, Terraform and Ansible very easily for the medium level config scripts building.
For a jumpstart of learning process, I have started building some videos on understanding the Infra scripts process through CF Templates with POCs/demos. Following link has these videos to watch and do self practice with CF.
Once you are perfect you can choose any of the Infra CM Tools to write scripts and run for automated infra setup.
The samples are made with the below infra setup scenarios:
How to Create a simple WordPress website with CloudFormation[CF] in AWS ? : In this POC exercise, we are using the Readily available template from the CloudFormation[CF] stacks with detailed lab steps in the below attached Video. There are two categories of WP infra building CF Templates mentioned in the CF stacks. In this example initially, I have taken the simple setup without Load balancer and Autoscale setup. The specifications/guidelines are given clearly to follow through video in the below blog:
Let us also be aware: Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market on AWS, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of IAC. They give a Console and ask you to setup a specific Infra setup in AWS.
In my coaching I focus on the candidates to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience rather than pushing the course with screen operations only to complete. Through my posted videos you can watch this USP.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy with this knowledge.
Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners only by having dedicated time. If you are a busy resource on the projects please note; you can wait to become free to learn. One need to spend time consistently on the practice. Otherwise its going to be in no-use.
We have been designing and implementing the traditional networks for about an half decade.
But each of us used to design with our own thoughts or within the given delivery time we used to take short cuts to implement them without following the industry standards. The current IT governance has been grown incrementally into IT industry by doing numerous process improvements by tons of years of experiences.
Now, when we are trying to move the existing systems into cloud the top component need to be analyzed well, which is for Network domains in an organization. So obviously 80% of the networks were not designed as per the current standards. But when we observer the Cloud Services their VPCs are designed by following current standards. So for the current Cloud professionals, there will be a gap in understanding the traditional setup and the VPC planning/designing/implementing successfully.
In the below video these were discussed in some aspects, in a mentoring session towards network conversion and design of VPC.
So now, from the below chart; we will see what kind of defects can be created and the reasons under different management and team practices, and the work culture lacking scenarios.
If you are working in Cloud projects the below video might be for you to scale up with coaching and mentoring on AWS Solutions usage.
One might have AWS-SAA certificate. But they need the domain knowledge also on how/where/when to use these AWS services with an in-depth gap analysis. So this coaching gives you that kind of feeling after completion. If you are really keen and ready to spend weekly 15+ hrs for self practice, this might be suitable to scale up in the Cloud era.
So now, from the below chart; we will see as per this blog subject what kind of costly defects can be created and the reasons under different management and team practices, and the work culture lacking scenarios.
How the Costly Cloud Defects can be controlled ?
You can watch the below video.
If you are working in Cloud projects this might be for you to scale up with coaching and mentoring on AWS Solutions usage.
One might have AWS-SAA certificate. But they need the domain knowledge also on how/where/when to use these AWS services. So this coaching gives you that kind of feeling after completion. If you are really keen and ready to spend weekly 15+ hrs for self practice, this might be suitable to scale up in the Cloud era.
So now, we will see as per this blog subject what kind of defects can be created under the below scenario:
Assume the a Cloud engineer joined newly in a job. He might be a fresher for IT and learnt AWS through either online or class room training sessions. He is highly self motivated and proactive. Being fresher with less CTC the employer hired him, instead of taking the infra experienced IT professional with costly CTC. Now they have given the below tasks to complete in a certain hours.
Need to create N number of EC2s and install some software in Y days.
Need to connect those EC2s using SSH and to test the loaded software.
What the Cloud Engineer has done with his mind set and by having limited infra exposure/knowledge ?
a) He created each EC2 separately. Because he did not practice on Boot strapping or IAC options.
b) He installed the required software in each EC2 by using SSH connection. And tested them once they are configured. Which is typical traditional sysadmin activity. But he is using the VMS.
What is the expectation from the Cloud expert/manager [who doesn’t give guidance, but he is more capable in tracking the work ? – we can see many such managers in IT field as trackers to crack the work culture!! ] ?
The manager expect him to write and run a JSON or YAML script to do all the above tasks.
And he expected him to do in a day or two.
But this poor fresher has taken a week time to complete the job by sitting on week-end also.
The management has planned to allocate the planned EC2s on 4th day to distribute to the technical staff where they are going to use for some other technical tasks. But its delayed due to a fresher is deployed for this activitiy.
Now, you as An Experienced Cloud Architect what you are suppose to do while recruiting a fresher for this kind of work?
Are you going to check by which tool he can write JSON or YAML scripts in AWS ?
Is he capable of creating EC2s with bootstrapping options also to install libs and software to save time ?
Is he capable of using Cloudformation template [by creating] along with Ansible to setup small EC2 servers/configurations ?
Do you think if he knows the above tools usage only, is it enough to do the work or plan/design the script properly ?
Are you going to check the Domain infra knowledge also with the candidate ?
Is the planned person and the executor are the same ?
If they are not the same, how the communication happened in between them ?
To meet the schedule; with what techniques/tools to use in the project, was it kept in the Cloud design specifications ? Was it communicated to the Cloud Engineer ?
Was it communicated clearly to the low level resources in the project [Like; Cloud Engineers, Architects, etc] on the design and tools usage as a standard ?
Did they estimate the competency of the existing resources ?
Are there any initial training/mentoring/knowledge transfer activities are lacking ?
So, finally what are the management related process defects you can find in this scenario as an experienced Cloud Architect ?
Obviously, many such kind of questions can strike to the mind set of experienced Infra professionals to dig the root causes of these defects. Such kind of situations are happening across Cloud projects and they are increasing the projects cost instead of decreasing. In many news or blogs we have been watching the management is spending more than the past infra cost for Cloud, so what for ? Because of having not the work culture matured managers in IT ?
So, one need to rethink on their environment also for further progress/process improvements. Even in case of a fresher, an experienced person would have been deployed also he might have done the same way due to lack of IAC/Infra creation knowledge. This comes from the experience or exposure or practice only. Hence the Cloud professionals including so called managers are also mandated to learn these techniques.
Some of them in the past I have observed during my Cloud consulting activities. With that knowledge only I have simulated these defects from my management experience. But these are the realistic issues appearing in Cloud projects.
I have given some solutions related to some of the above technical needs through videos/blogs where a fresher can learn well:
So now, as per this blog subject what kind of defects can be created under the below scenario:
Assume the Cloud Architect assumed the Application level session management is applied in their applications as per the development standards. So with this standards, they can track the sessions used by different users. So the ELB Session management is disabled under cost savings by the Cloud architect. But unfortunately, the past developers not followed the session management standards across the business modules. So when user is trying to create a checkout process in an e-commerce site, his session was appearing with timeout. So this should be the defect from the past application design level defect. So, the business users complained it as it is moved to Cloud the application is not working. So the issues were triggered against the Cloud team rather than the right communication was not followed in the project. The responsible CTO/CIO people never implemented such kind of review process to make sure the application details to supply in all aspects, for right Cloud services designing. Their focus was more on cost savings!!
My questions for Cloud Architect and their management is:
Why did the Cloud Architect assumed without confirming from the right technical people on the session management used for all the modules ?
Do the Cloud Architect need to know the application details also himself without having support from the top people ?
When the Cloud Architect designed the cloud services plan, why the right [top] people did not review and realize it ?
What kind of IT Governance was implemented or enforced here by the CTO/CIO with Cloud Transformation projects ?
Did the management feel they need to safeguard all the role people in IT or just by putting pressure they do create the defects and finally they realize the process defects ? And ultimately pinks slips will be ready for wrong people to get fired ?
What is the management maturity we can find in such kind of situations ?
Did the management realize the Cloud roles correctly and completely and they supported them in this scenario ?
Caution to Cloud professionals:
Hope you as Cloud Architect, could catch what are the specifications you need to ask upfront when they ask you to create such kind of infra in Cloud. You and your team need to realize the Cloud professional role is not just to operate the screen flows as we learnt from the typical Cloud Trainings!! You need to understand the application domain knowledge also.
To know the real specifications for your role visit:
With reference to the booming Cloud Market [refer to some of my videos/blogs] and the Conversions to Cloud by different business organizations; Globally millions of IT professionals were mandated to learn the Cloud technologies to sustain their jobs in IT.
When we talk about these converted IT Professionals, they were forced to move into Cloud due to the sustainability of their job.
At the same time their employers are also enforced by their management to accelerate the cost savings for IT infra.
So how they do the planning for Cloud ?
On top there can be a CTO/CIO plans it to convert into Cloud. And they have the complete knowledge of the infrastructure with reference to their technology being used for business systems.
There will be Cloud Architects, they are responsible to create the Cloud implementation design.
Then the plan and the design is released to the Cloud engineers by allocating the tasks.
In between due to lack of [turn around] time, the Cloud engineers are pressured to create the environments. Here everybody can find one point, the management did not plan the knowledge transfer perfectly to the low level people. Then they can create many costly defects as per their knowledge and experience. So there is no ‘uniformity was followed’ in this case. It need not be a cost effective solution the Cloud Architects or Cloud Engineers have done. And there was no review also done. Once the monthly Cloud bill is arrived they will realize on it. Then they can realize the costly burning/bill happened by comparing to their planned cost saving on Infra. So this way they are enforced to track the resources who created these costly defects.
The following picture has got this kind of analysis. And what are the basic reasons the Architects and Engineers are not able to understand the domain conversion scenarios, when the management plans and release it for implementation.
Here we need to remember, every IT Professional need to realize that one fine day the current size of the resources will not be there in any project due to Cloud and the automation implementation is happening.
So the self matured professional need to realize where they are lacking and step down to learn those from experts, on war footing basis to prove and safeguard their jobs in IT.
To know the real practices lacking and the root causes towards creating these costly defects, visit the below video based blog. It can show the ways to improve your Cloud projects ROI.
Through this blog I would like to demonstrate on CloudFormation [CF] templates usage with the IAC.
I have observed in Cloud and DevOps teams, many of them are non-programming background. But when the Infra setup requirement comes into their task following questions will arise:
How can they write the JSON/YAML/Go programming/script coding ?
How can they understand the Cloud services and the domain setup knowledge ?
What are the sequence of steps they need to follow, if they are being asked to setup the environments?
How the VPCs need to be built ?
How the Load Balancers need to be setup ?
How the autoscaling and load balancing can be done in different locations to balance the traffic and maintain the infra setup consistency with low latency ?
What are steps need to be followed to learn on the above process/procedures ?
AWS has given some of the infra setup the CloudFormation templates for us to try and test them. And later on to understand the Script/code of JSON/YAML to implement with any CM Tools.
Please note; every Cloud/DevOps/Test Engineer need to drive the infra setup tasks through IAC scripts only. For every infra setup tasks they should be able to step down to develop these IAC scripts by using different tools. In AWS, we can use CF, Terraform and Ansible very easily for the medium level config scripts building.
For a jumpstart of learning process, I have started building some videos on understanding the Infra scripts process through CF Templates with POCs/demos. Following links have these videos to watch and do self practice with CF.
Once you are perfect you can choose any of the Infra CM Tools to write scripts and run for automated infra setup.
How to Create a simple WordPress website with CloudFormation[CF] in AWS ? : In this POC exercise, we are using the Readily available template from the CloudFormation[CF] stacks with detailed lab steps in the below attached Video. There are two categories of WP infra building CF Templates mentioned in the CF stacks. In this example initially, I have taken the simple setup without Load balancer and Autoscale setup. The specifications/guidelines are given clearly to follow through video.
Let us also be aware: Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market on AWS, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of IAC. They give a Console and ask you to setup a specific Infra setup in AWS.
In my coaching I focus on the candidates to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience rather than pushing the course with screen operations only to complete. Through my posted videos you can watch this USP.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview/selection process. Which is very easy.
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Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of it on the candidate what he/she has ?
In my coaching I concentrate to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience by the participant rather than pushing the course to them. Verify the videos.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview. Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners.
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It was from one of the working IT Professionals interview on my course. He has 9.5 yrs sysadmin experience. He answered the below questions:
1. What did you expect from my course before joining ?
2. How did you feel on the material ?
3. How did you feel on explanation ?
4. How did you feel on the chapter wise questions practice ?
5. Did you get any job experience feeling from my course ?
6. If your current company put you on AWS tasks also, what is your confidence level ?
7. Finally, what is your target for your exam prep ?
8. How are you going to RE-use material ?
9. How are you going to RE-use Lab sessions ?
In some of my Youtube videos you can find his attended sessions also!!
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Analyze AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Exam Guide series-1:
You can find the analysis through this discussion video with a Built Solutions Architect:
Why the Certified AWS-Solutions Architects are being served Pinkslips ?
What could be the reasons ?
Do they understand the role clearly what the Client expects ?
Why the management is so aggressive to prove the Cloud implementation as per Schedule with ROI ?
Once the Cloud Migration Schedule is started why the IT Budget is freezed ?
Why do they attempt on Contractors as 1st instance to cut the staff ?
What the IT services companies can do with the Client terminated contracts ?
Please read the below content patiently and watch videos for solutions to protect your current Cloud role. Connect with me on linkedin to get a special coaching to rebuild your current role as per your client expectations.
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who are self driven and try for jobs with the given skills learning without getting into somebody shoes, come and get trained. You wouldn’t see the labs as demos. You will be practicing the labs as per the coacher guidelines with his watching. So that you will gain the technical competency with self confidence.
A new batch is planned in a cost effective way. Contact in the given FB links from the blog. Good luck in your job search and in IT profession.
If you are keen in doing a fast track course to attack the job market instead of learning by self for months together and getting struck to move forward, you can opt for #4 and #5. Read the videos descriptions also. The contact details are given on this web page logo.
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If you are a Black-box Testing Savvy years together and struck in learning Cloud technology, not able to coupe up for building modern test environments, this is the golden opportunity to learn and compete with others in the projects. After the course you will be able to define/design/execute your test environments in AWS.
Send a message to book for a review call after reviewing the below content/videos.
Are you a Test Analyst ?
Did you do only black-box testing earlier ?
Do you have confusion on learning Cloud computing ?
Do you feel aloof for transforming into Cloud technology ?
Do you need to setup the Test environment with Cloud only ?
Are you not able to catch up the technology skill which job role demands ?
We have solutions for your issues, we coach Test Analysts to convert into modern Cloud technology usage [AWS only]. You can learn and do the practice like your black-box test cases. Check the below discussion videos also with a Sr. Test Analyst for AWS course:
Also look into the below video for a lab exercise like your test script steps to easily understand and build the required AWS service:
We have a “Pay As You Learn” [monthly] Option for working IT Professionals.
I have made the below video after having calls with many Cloud professionals globally. Many of the Cloud Engineers are failing due to lack of the domain based skills. Even recently in top notch tech news sites they have published on how the Cloud projects are costing more inspite of saving the cost to the organizations. It is eventual to learn the domain based skills for the Cloud/DevOps professionals to meet the delivery cycle time.
Lack of Cloud skills for DevOps Engineer -2 [FAQs]: This video talks on the possibility of lack of Skills for some of the AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineers. Most of the IT employers are looking from the Cloud or DevOps engineers the Environment building automatically with DevOps process/IAC. In this video the DevOps process and its automation process is discussed for feasible interview questions by mapping to the AWS-DevOps. And what role people can learn by self and who are the roles can not learn by self with the reasons.
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How to Convert your existing infra teams into AWS with POCs easily to prove in client interviews through seasoned mentors?
In the Current IT Trend, new technologies are getting transformed with cheaper cost in view of man power, operations and infra. In such case some companies might feel to serve pink slips to the traditional employees. But when you recruit new staff how much you spend on them ? And if you coach the existing staff to transform into new era, what will be the cost and ROI ? I do this kind of resources transformation activities on my own by coaching the experienced IT Professionals on new technology like; AWS Cloud, etc. For example, you can see my blog/coaching videos on my coaching for 10-15+ yrs global IT Folks:
The below blog is the latest one. You will be able to connect to the current Global IT needs and what I offer:
If any corporate is serious in looking to sustain their traditional staff and reuse them efficiently/effectively, I will be there behind them to support till they transform into their client requirement/project for billability. Looking forward for your cost savings exercise response.
Please Note:There is a difference between training and coaching or building teams for projects. For your existing IT Professionals you need to give coaching [through seasoned professionals] not the training. Then they will be productive.
!!For Working IT Infra Professionals only!! For learning AWS.
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Come to a call to know our new scheme “Pay As You Learn”, monthly basis. The total AWS Course it takes around 5 months as part time basis with weekly one on one class hours with POCs to learn AWS through some chapters.
Please note each of our catching capability varies. This effort need to be understood by the individuals before talking on your interest/effort/affordability.
This is similar to a performance activity how the RM measures to each of us in a project.
Please note each aspired Cloud architect need to spend 200+ hrs before starting their role.
Hence in one month or few hours if somebody says you will be come a Solution Architect, they are bluffing you.
You need to learn and do practice on AWS services extensively like an implementable solution. This way our course builds you into new technology era.
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Many companies they do skill test by giving a scenario to develop through AWS Console or CLI. This way they can filter your profile to find its authenticity “actual” or “fake”. You all know in the global IT Market lot of fake profiles are floating around. So the recruiters are finding challenges to filter them. By attending skill test you will be proved you are the original professional infront of the fake profiles.
But if you want to learn this new technology, you were not habituated like developers [as they keep updating their knowledge, for their bread and butter by spending weekly some hours] to accelerate the skills in new technology implementation.
So, what you need to do ?
You need an individual coaching to speed up this learning activity.
It should not be in group or online training!!
Read the below contents from the picture for details, what way I can help/support you.
You can choose the course ‘A’ or ‘B’. Then if you want to have POCs development knowledge, after completion of “B”, you can join.
In the Bottom the Courses TOC discussion videos are given for your perusal.
For Freshers “Course-A” is suitable.
We have a “Pay As You Learn” [monthly] Option for working IT Professionals.
If your IT Company has the Branch sourounding to Amaravati [AP-India], you can become group member to post the IT Related Jobs.
If you are a College student and ready to appear for exams and chase the off-campus interviews at different cities nearby, you can learn the latest technologies from this site also for interview preparation. Even if some of you come with a group an “Online coaching can be organized on the trending topics” along with the interview guidance. So you don’t need to get into wrong consultants shoes. Please note we don’t provide a job or assistance or recommend you to any company like others. After coaching confidently you need to try and you will be able to get a job with the learnt skills. You can join in this group.
If you are a Consulting company and need some kind of Support for your client projects towards Cloud conversion/transition, the relevant support can be given globally to any Country.
If you are a technical designer for any Infra design or software architecture, you should know the “Simple Ques Service” from AWS. Provided, you are working in that Cloud environment. The attached video had the discussion on this topic with some live scenarios comparison. You will get to know implementation scenarios also.
If you are interested in session management look into this:
1. How Active Directory [AD] File server [FS] can be connected to AWS ? 2. How NAT Gateways can be connected to AD FS ?
Very important and Critical topic is: Session management. It covers… 3. What is Session management ? 4. How ELB [Elastic Load Balancer] can be utilized to create session management tasks in AWS ? 5. What are the application level session management ? 6. What are sticky sessions ? 7. How to use sticky sessions in AWS ?
You watch all these in a class video, were discussed with live scenarios/examples, which URL is attached below:
Let us take a scenario of files copy from one machine to another machine.
You need to do the following:
We need to copy the files into a pen drive or HDD or Copy them into a shared network drive.
If you copy them into HDD or Pen drive, you need to connect to other machine to copy them into 2nd machine.
Now in Cloud using AWS; to know ” how we can do this activity ” we can see from the below steps:
You need to have one EC2. [in this example, I have created one EC2 Windows server. Then attached one EBS Volume [which is equivalent of HDD or a Pen drive].
I made this EBS Volume as an HDD to this server.
Then I created some .txt files to take backup of these files.
Then I have created the backup of these files using AWS Snapshot process.
And attached this Snapshot to another 2ndEBS Volume.
I have created 2ndEC2 with the same configuration.
And attached the 2nd EBS .
Then I released it as HDD.
Finally, those two text files can be seen in this 2nd EC2.
These detailed steps were drawn in the attached video with “AWS live exercise class lesson of 1.45 mts. duration”.
The similar exercises were given during the Cloud Engineer interviews. So if you are appearing for the interview this might be useful one.
If you have patience and time, you can watch it in the below link. And practice it for your interviews.
What are the Skills required for a Cloud Architect ?
How best you can utilize this role as efficient IT Management practitioner ?
Are you an IT management practitioner who wants to take your cloud migrations to the next level? Look no further than the role of Cloud Architect! While many organizations use this role for DevOps practices, it’s important to dedicate a separate Cloud Architect role for efficient and effective cloud migrations.
In 2017, Gartner published a list of activities and required skills for the Cloud Architect role, and while you may not be able to use all of them, there are some key activities that can help you see a difference in your business. By separating this role from DevOps activities, you can focus on Cloud Infrastructure Planning, Designing, Building, and Implementing to meet your business needs.
This separation can help to resolve burning issues related to DevOps and Cloud faster and reduce risks. If you’re an IT management practitioner who wants to implement these practices, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on Facebook. Check out my groups for IT professionals, where I post valuable discussions, videos, and blogs to help you take your cloud migrations to the next level.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to optimize your cloud migrations and drive your business forward. Dedicate a Cloud Architect role and see the difference it can make.
Finally, I would say you are mandated to separate this role from DevOps Activities assigning and dedicate the role for;
Cloud Infrastructure Planning,
Designing,
Building and
implementing effectively for business needs
So many burning issues related to DevOps and Cloud can be separated and resolved faster to move forward. This way many risks can be reduced!!
If you are an IT management practitioner; and would like to get any clarifications to implement these practices you are advised to contact me on FB and have a call.
Visit my current running facebook groups for IT Professionals with my valuable discussions/videos/blogs posted:
What is infra scaling and how Autoscale works in AWS ?
In any traditional infrastructure, we can see scaling up and down the network or servers can be done through tools or manually.
In Cloud service we can do these activities using a Cloud service.
If we consider the AWS services, Autoscale is the service to monitor and add the needed VMs or delete the unused instances from the network [VPC/Subnet].
The attached video has the class discussion on this topic.
Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of it on the candidate what he/she has ?
In my coaching I concentrate to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience by the participant rather than pushing the course to them. Verify the videos.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview. Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners.
As per the market need one need to learn on building the infra in Cloud and DevOps Automation. These are divided into two stages. The details are given in the below blog with video discussion:
Due to lacks of certified professionals are available globally in the market, to differentiate them on their needs/selection, most of the clients are asking on the real experience gained or aware of it on the candidate what he/she has ?
In my coaching I concentrate to gain the real Cloud Architecture implementation experience by the participant rather than pushing the course to them. Verify the videos.
Contact for your real Cloud experiences learning and gaining with me and crack the interviews to get offers in AWS Roles globally or even you can transition to the role in the same company after facing the client interview. Please connect me on FB and have a discussion on your background and the needs/goals. I am looking for the serious learners.
Why do you need to learn from Infra domain knowledge as certified Cloud Professional ?
In the current IT World Cloud computing became regular practice for any IT Professional. Any cloud services we use, we need to know the current/traditional infrastructure setup. But every IT professional may not have that background/knowledge to understand. Because in this industry each of us played different roles.
The Infra activities handled IT Professional only will come to know this knowledge and will have experience. But the industry needs every IT employee need to know this knowledge apart from the Cloud service provider [Ex: AWS, Azure, GC, etc..] products operations. [Eventhough, if you are a certified Solutions architect with that Cloud service provider.]
Then only whoever the professionals are certified they will be able to use these products/services and implement them under cloud setup. Hence the Infra domain knowledge or experience is mandated for every IT professional who is working for Cloud services or in that infra setup. I have been hearing during Cloud professionals recruitment the interviewers are keeping some questions on this area also. If one understand the Network domain setup then only they will be able to design the Cloud architecture. Hence more employers are worried to have this domain knowledge with the Certified and recruited Cloud professionals.
Below video has the details of SAA Course with the domain knowledge expertism for you:
Let us assume an international bank has daily transactions files in different global regions. Those need to be shared across globe for different business users purpose in each country. They should be able to access them for their dashboards. This example talks on this kind of cross data sharing scenario using “S3-Bucket Cross Region Replication [CRR]”.
At the end of this blog, you can find the same scenario simulation using AWS S3-Buckets.
I have made a scenario based “AWS services usage” blog in this content. Which can be considered as a Proof of Concept [POC] Project also.
If you are new for cloud technology, I have made a video cum blog for you to understand its initiation/evaluation concepts. This video is more useful for PMs/Cloud Architects/DevOps role based people.
In this AWS exercise, I have described/demonstrated on WordPress[WP] infrastructure creation using a free tier account.
At the end of this blog a micro level lab practiced steps are copied and a recorded video is there on my channel.
I would like to explain from architecture/design perspective through this blog, before you go to Lab steps. After doing this exercise, simply and finally we can come into the following conclusions:
a) Creating a blogging infrastructure can be fully automated through AWS services. b) Infrastructure can be created at any time on-demand without any up-front commitment for how long we will use it in AWS. c) We can pay for our infrastructure depending on how many hours we use it. d) Infrastructure consists of several parts, such as; i) virtual servers, ii) load balancers, and iii) databases. e) Infrastructure can be deleted with one click without costing to us.
This process is powered by AWS automation. So it will not be billed to our free tier account after deletion!!.
First let us analyze on WP and its components.
How a WordPress infrastructure can be planned?
Assume we have a startup company, which publishes more white papers and blogs.
Assuming; our startup company currently uses WordPress[WP] to host over 500 blogs on our own servers. The blogging infrastructure must be highly available, because customers don’t tolerate outages of any servers. To evaluate whether a migration is possible through AWS services, we need to do the following three Activities planning and try out with AWS free-tier account:
A) Set up a highly available blogging infrastructure in AWS. B) Estimate monthly costs of the infrastructure.
C) Finally, Delete our blogging infrastructure to save cost from free-tier account.
For our understanding on WP;
WordPress[WP] is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database to store data.
Apache is used as the web server to serve the blog pages.
With this information in our mind, we map our requirements to AWS services to test the infrastructure creation.
Now, let us analyze on “what are the AWS services required for our WP test infrastructure?”.
We need the below AWS services to do this activity: I. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), II. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), III. Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL and IV. Security groups.
Let us analyze what are the functions/benefits of these AWS services.
I. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB):
AWS offers a load balancer as a service. The Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) distributes traffic to a bunch of servers behind it in a cloud environment. It’s highly available by default.
Let us assume our startup company’s blogs are published globally. From many countries these can be accessed by the users. Assume there are lot of users access this content globally. Then in traditional method your load is not balanced without having physical servers connected through VPNs/networks, etc. in different locations. Think about the Hardware/Software/maintenance/FMG cost for this traditional infrastructure. We can not think it being a startup company to spend much. No way!! Hence we need to depend on cloud service provider.
With AWS ELB, this can be balanced by distributing the blog users traffic to different virtual servers under cloud environment. To denote this distributed load balancing architecture, I have collected a diagram on;
WordPress infrastructure and Load Balancing through ELB AWS service. Which is pasted here for your clarity on the ELB function.
II. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2):
It is A virtual server which is provided by the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service of AWS. We will use a Linux server with an optimized distribution called Amazon Linux to install Apache, PHP, and WordPress during our exercise. Please note; we are not limited to Amazon Linux only; we can also choose Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, or Windows. Virtual servers can fail at any time, so we need at least two of them for contingency planning. The load balancer will distribute the traffic between them. The beauty of AWS service in case of a server failure is; the load balancer will stop sending traffic to the failed server, and the remaining [contingency] server will need to handle all the requests until the failed server is replaced. Let us not worry on this communication! You will be intimated the status through alerts.
A sample architecture diagram is pasted here FYI with two EC2 instances.
III. Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL:
WordPress relies on the popular MySQL database. AWS provides MySQL as a Relational Database Service (RDS). We can choose the database size (like; storage, CPU, RAM), and RDS takes care of the rest (backups, updates). RDS can also provide a highly available MySQL database by replication.In traditional [non-cloud] model we had the similar setup. It occurs huge costing. By using AWS cloud services this can be easily maintained with minor costing only.
On this context; from the below diagram we can see the MYSQL features from AWS services offering.
V. Security groups:
In every application architecture we need to have the security features in place. Either these can be embed in the applications or through security tools it can be applied. So the entire architecture is protected that way.
But in cloud services many providers provide these services differently with their services offering.
The Security groups are a fundamental service of AWS to control network traffic like a firewall in traditional systems. Security groups can be attached to a lot of services like ELB, EC2, and RDS. For example; with security groups, we can configure our load balancer as below:
It only accepts requests on port 80 from the internet. Web servers only accept connections on port 80 from the load balancer. And MySQL only accepts connections on port 3306 from the web servers. If we want to log in to our web servers via SSH, we must also open port 22. Similar ways the architecture setup can be configured.
FYI, I have considered a diagram from AWS docs; which denotes a typical AWS multi-tier approach security services with a Firewall:
As shown in the above diagram, A security group acts as a virtual firewall for our instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. When we launch an instance in a Virtual Private Cloud[VPC], we can assign the instance to up to five security groups. It means in any VPC AWS provides five different security groups.
So, now what is our start company plan for security?:
Let us assume our startup company’s blogging infrastructure consists of two load-balanced web servers running a) WordPress and b) a MySQL database server.
The following tasks are performed automatically in the background through AWS:
Configuring WordPress to use the created RDS MySQL database
Starting Apache.
Before going to the above steps, I would like to show the below diagram for your understanding on “The setup of WP hosting on AWS”. You can download it through the URL given and see it as an image file for your understanding.
Now, let us recap our beginning conclusions for this blog. We need to do the below activities till end of the exercise.
Creating a blogging infrastructure.
Analyzing costs of a blogging infrastructure.
Exploring a blogging infrastructure.
Shutting down a blogging infrastructure.
Deleting infrastructure from AWS Account.
1. What actions we need to consider for Creating blogging infrastructure in AWS?: To create the blogging infrastructure we need the below steps to follow on AWS console.
Note: Please note time to time the screen flows [micro level steps] might change on AWS, but the process should be the same to understand on creation of this WP infra.
Click Services in the navigation bar, and click the Cloud-Formation service.
Click on Create Stack to start the four-step wizard.
Now we will see what are these 4 steps wizard process it contains.
I. Creating a blogging infrastructure: Step 1 of 4
You need to name your infrastructure. Enter “wordpress” as the Name. For Source option, select and Specify an Amazon S3 Template URL as shown in the screen [lab exercise screen]. Copy this URL and save somewhere in a text file for future reference/usage. About this process, during lab demo you will understand clearly.
II. Creating a blogging infrastructure: Step 2 of 4
Click Next to set the KeyName to “vskumarkey” [example only, you can give any name], for Step 2 of 4. Click Next to create a tag for our infrastructure into next screen. These steps can be seen clearly in lab practices steps.
III. Creating a blogging infrastructure: Step 3 of 4
A tag consists of a key-value pair and can be used to add information to all parts of our infrastructure. We can use tags to differentiate between testing and production resources, add the cost center to easily track costs in our organization [if any], or mark resources that belong to a certain application if we host multiple applications in the same AWS account.
In this example, we will use a tag to mark all of our resources that belong to the “wordpress system”. This will help us later to easily find our infrastructure. Use “system” as the key and “wordpress” as the value. Click Next. Finally, we will see a confirmation page for Step 4 of 4. For clarity look into lab steps.
IV. Creating a blogging infrastructure: Step 4 of 4
In the Estimate Cost row, click Cost. This will open a new browser tab in the background. Keep this browser open only. We will come back to this screen later. Switch back to the original browser tab and click Create. We can see next Review screen in the next page.
Now, our infrastructure will be created. This Review screen shows that wordpress is in the state of CREATE_IN_PROGRESS. It takes 15-20 mts to complete this process.
Now, please take a look at the result by refreshing the page. Select the “WordPress” row, where Status should be CREATE_COMPLETE. If the status is still CREATE_IN_PROGRESS, be patient until the status becomes CREATE_COMPLETE.
Switch to the Outputs tab [below part of the screen], which is the Blogging infrastructure result. There we can find the URL to our “wordpress system”; click it to visit the system.
What is AWS Automation here?:
As we have discussed in the beginning of this blog, one of the key concepts of AWS is automation. We can automate everything. In the background, our blogging infrastructure was created based on a blueprint with its automation. So the above mentioned [10] tasks have been performed in the background by AWS cloud formation service. You can see the beauty of this automation during lab demonstration.
Blogging infrastructure result:
Now we’ve created our blogging infrastructure, let us take a look at it. Our infrastructure consists of the following as we discussed in this blog:
Web servers
Load balancer
MySQL database
Now; we will use the resource groups feature of the Management Console to get an overview.
Exploring the created WP Blogging infrastructure
Now let us understand;
What is Resource Group in AWS?:
A resource group is a collection of AWS resources.
Resource is an abstract term for something in AWS like an EC2 server, a security group, or a RDS database.
Resources can be tagged with key-value pairs. In such case; let us note we can have more than one key-value pairs.
Resource groups specify what tags are needed for a resource to belong to the group.
Furthermore, a resource group specifies the region(s) where the resource should reside in. It means globally these resource groups can be deployed for its functioning.
We can use resource groups to group resources if we run multiple systems in the same AWS account. This way we are sharing the resources among the projects or app architectures.
Let us note that we have tagged the blogging infrastructure with the key “system” and the value “wordpress”.
As an example; from now on, we will use this notation for key-value pairs: (system:wordpress). We’ll use that tag to create a resource group for our WordPress infrastructure. For further clarity please look into the lab steps/video.
Now let us understand;
How to create a resource group in AWS?:
In the AWS part of the top navigation bar, click Create a Resource Group.
Set Group Name to “wordpress” or whatever you like.
Add the tag system with the value wordpress.
Select the region N. Virginia [for example]. [I have used my existing account]
Save the resource group.
It will take you to next screen shown in next page. Follow the below steps.
How to see the Blogging infrastructure web servers via resource groups details?:
Select Instances under EC2 on the left to see the web servers.
By clicking the arrow icon in the Go column, you can easily jump to the details of a single web server.
Now, You are looking at the details of your web server, which is also called an EC2 instance.
Details of web servers running the blogging infrastructure:
On this screen the interesting/important details are as below:
Instance type: It tells us about how powerful your instance is.
Public IP address: The IP address that is reachable over the internet. You can use that IP address to connect to the server via SSH.
Security groups: If you click on View Rules, you’ll see the active firewall rules like the one that enabled port 22 from all sources (0.0.0.0/0).
AMI ID: Let us recollect that we used the Amazon Linux operating system (OS). If you click the AMI ID, you will see the version number of the OS, among others.
We also need to know the utilization of webservers, like how we used to monitor in live [for production boxes].
Looking for webserver utilization and metrics in AWS:
2. In the screen; Select the Monitoring tab to see how your web server is utilized.
3. This will become part of our job: really knowing how the infrastructure is doing.
4. AWS collects some metrics and shows them in the Monitoring section. If the CPU is utilized more than 80%, you should add a third server to prevent page load times from increasing.
Now let us understand on;
How to check the Blogging infrastructure load balancer via resource groups?:
We can find the load balancer by selecting Load Balancers under EC2 on the left to the page.
By clicking the arrow icon in the Go column, you can easily jump to the details of the load balancer.
Now, we are looking at the details of your load balancer.
Here; the most interesting part is, “How the load balancer forwards traffic to the web servers?“.
The blogging infrastructure runs on port 80, which is the default HTTP port.
The load balancer accepts only HTTP connections to forward to one of the web servers that also listen on port 80.
The load balancer performs a health check on the virtual servers attached.
Both virtual servers are working as expected, so the load balancer routes traffic to them.
How to check the MySQL server ?:
Details of the MySQL database which stores data for the blogging infrastructure
Now; let’s look at the MySQL database. You can find the database in a resource group named wordpress.
Select DB Instances under RDS at left.
By clicking the arrow icon in the Go column, you can easily jump to the details of the database.
Now the details of our MySQL database are shown in the screen.
The benefit of using RDS is that we no longer need to worry about backups because AWS performs them automatically.
Updates are performed by AWS in a custom maintenance window. Keep in mind that you can choose the right database size in terms of storage, CPU, and RAM, depending on your needs.
AWS offers many different instance classes, from 1 core with 1 GB RAM up to 32 cores with 244 GB RAM.
Note:I would like to emphasize to compare the traditional [non-cloud] approach. We were using scheduler to backup the DB periodically. Some times we used to shutdown the live systems to take the backups. So, from AWS RDS services we do not need interruption to the business to take backup, RDS takes care everything. We can save the role of sysadmin/DBA while using the AWS services. This way the resources efforts and business services down time are saved.
As we planned three activities for this whole exercise as on now; we have completed the activity of “A) Set up a highly available blogging infrastructure in AWS.”
Now, we are going to work on; “B) Estimate monthly costs of the infrastructure.”
As the part of this exercise is’ cost estimation also need to be done.
To analyze the cost of our blogging infrastructure, we will use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.
Recollect that we clicked the Cost link in the previous section to open a new browser tab.
Now, switch to that browser tab, and you will see a screen as shown in the below chart.
To Estimate of our Monthly Bill, and expand the Amazon EC2 Service and Amazon RDS Service rows.
Now, Let us see and understand the below chart.
Now it’s time to evaluate costs. We can see on How much does it cost?
In this example, our infrastructure will cost is around $60 per month.
Let us keep in mind that this is only an estimate.
We are billed based on the actual usage till the end of the month.
Everything is on-demand and usually billed by hours of usage or by gigabytes of usage.
But what influences the usage for this infrastructure?
Let us analyze different situations and identify the costing parameters as below:
Traffic processed by the load balancer: Let us assume; Expect the costs to go down in during festival/vacation season like; “December and the summer”. When the people are on vacation and not looking at our blogs.
Storage needed for the database: If our startup company increases the number of blogs, the database will grow, so the cost of storage will increase this way.
Number of web servers needed:A single web server is billed by hours of usage. If two web servers are not enough to handle all the traffic during the day, we may need a third server. By default we need to keep in our AWS/EC2 setup. In that case, we will consume more hours of virtual servers.
Now we had a clear overview of the blogging infrastructure creation and its cost estimation/Analysis. Similar way you will be able to do for your AWS migration projects also.
Now; with reference to the 3rd step, it is time to shut down the infrastructure and complete our AWS migration evaluation exercise.
Let us recap our planned 3rd activity;
C) Finally, Delete our blogging infrastructure to save cost from free-tier account.
Now, go to the CloudFormation service in the Management Console and do the following:
Select the WordPress row.
Click Delete Stack, as shown in top of the screen.
After you confirm the deletion of the infrastructure, it takes few minutes for AWS to delete all of the infrastructure’s dependencies.
Please note; this is an efficient way to manage our infrastructure.
Just as the infrastructure’s creation was automated, its deletion is also completely automated.
You can create and delete infrastructure on-demand whenever you would like, and you only pay for infrastructure when you create and run it.
<===== I copied the relevant lab practiced steps for your easy use ======>
These steps were used as on dated: 9th Sept 2018 on my free-tier account for student purpose. The AWS might change its Screens flow or UI part time to time. Hence from the above blog narration some detailed steps are given in the below lab practice steps for your easy use/practice.
2. Login to the account. 3. Click on Services. 4. Please note we need to use Cloudformation service of AWS in this exercise. Hence click on Cloudformation. 5. You will be shown the screen to create a new stack. Click on it. Note as mentioned in my blog it has 4 step process. 6. Now, select a sample template. Choose WordPress blog. It creates/shows the S3 template url. 7. Copy the S3 Template URL into a file for future usage. 8. Now, click on Next to go to next screen. 9. Under Specify Details columns, mention the details. 10. Please note my Infra name I want to give “wordpress”. 11. It has the predefined DB “wordpressdb”, I will keep it. 12. I can give DB Passwords, as required in the entry boxes/columns. 13. Dbuser “vskumarwp”. It has instance type t2.small. 14. Now, as you are aware we need to have the local SSH keys which we have created earlier. I have some keys I have selected one. [If you are new for this account, create the SSH keys…] 15. I need to give the range of IPs to be used for our wp servers. I want to use 192.168.116.9/15. 16. Now, need to click on next… Please note the above steps are required for you….
17. Let me give System as “worpress” and key as “system” as mentioned in my blog. 18. I want to skip ARN value in this exercise, due to as I mentioned in blog I would like to follow. I will not have any ARN, Hence monitoring is not mandated for me in this exercise. Then press “Next”.
19. Now, we will see the review screen as mentioned in Blog. On reveiw screen press Create button. 20. We are in creation process screen as mentioned in Blog. CREATE COMPLETE IS DONE NOW.
21. Now let me click on my instance vskumarwp.
22. Now, go to the top navaigation bar and select the resource groups. 23. Select create resource group. You will get a new screen which has some entries and selections. Give tag key as “worpress” and press create group. 24. Next screen it shows wordpress as the resource group name.
25. Now, go to EC2 instance from the left side shown. Now, you can see in bottom of the screen as mentioned in the blog.
26. I can see ELB by clicking on ELB option in the left panel. Please note I have not given the ARN. Hence the Monitoring option is not selected. Due to it might charge me.
27. You can see the cloud watch options through monitoring button in the below part of the screen.
28. Please note the security groups are attached by default.
29. Please note if I want to use this EC2 instance which is prepared for WP, I need to launch in AWS services live. Which is going to be billed. Hence I will stop at this point.
30. The FINAL step is to delete the Instance of WP. I will go to cloudformation option. Then it displays the current instance. I will select it and go to actions and select the DELETE STACK Option. It prompts for ‘YES/NO’, Select Yes. It can take some time to perform deletion.
31. Once it is deleted it will comeback to the Stack creation screen. Please note I have checked it, there are no existing instances in my current account. We can see it as terminated instance.
32. So, this way we can create infra and delete it very easily.
33. So, let us have a final conclusion, section from blog.
34. Please call me if you need any coaching for AWS course…. THANKS FOR WATCHING MY VIDEOS/BLOGS ……..
For the above steps a 40 mts videos has been made and hosted on my channel. Please look into it also.
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Now, after doing all the above steps we can compare our conclusions mentioned in the beginning of this blog. I copied the same for your cross check!!
a) Creating a blogging infrastructure can be fully automated through AWS services. b) Infrastructure can be created at any time on-demand without any up-front commitment for how long we will use it in AWS. c) We can pay for our infrastructure depending on how many hours we use it. d) Infrastructure consists of several parts, such as; virtual servers, load balancers, and databases. e) Infrastructure can be deleted with one click without costing to us. This process is powered by AWS automation. So it will not be billed to our free tier account after deletion.
I assume now, you are a fearless user of AWS to create the infrastructure through your free-tier account and delete and maintain the account without a cost to your CC/Account.
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If you want to learn indepth Cloud/DevOps Architec role with Infra setup upto IAC Automation the following course can help you to convert into the demanding role:
Many people might feel the Cloud Architect and DevOps Architect can play dual roles. As per my observation yes, many small and medium level organizations are utilizing the IT Professionals in the same manner. I wrote a blog for these roles segregation with their main Activities. I felt this might help to some of the practitioners.
With reference to my previous blog on Cloud Architect role comparison with DevOps, there were questions on DevOps architect role comparison.
Identifying the Sprint cycles for different projects.
Identifying the different environments needs including the different test levels requirements.
Plan/design the environment specifications to build Infrastructure As A Code [IAC] and guide the DevOps Engineers.
At the same time he/she need to collaborate with the Cloud Architect to seek the permissions/approvals to utilize the cloud environment on these environmental requirements/setup.
Both these architects need to measure the cost of this Infrastructure to estimate and get approval from the management.
The DevOps Architect is also responsible to plan for different production deployments. He/She need to work together with the Cloud Architect to establish this setup.
In the current trend the containerization is accelerating with Cloud technology. Both these architects need to keep working on these areas to reduce the Virtual Machines cost by replacing with containers. At the same time these two people need to think on converting the applications into Microservices slowly with the Agile methods. This will have easy maintenance in future and also the further cost can be reduced in view of infrastructure and the man power. And their guidelines need to submit to management as a proposal. These two people are also responsible to upgrade their teams skills on the new trends in Cloud technology.
If you ask me the question who are the team members for these roles;
DevOps Engineers will report to DevOps Architect.
Cloud/system engineer reports to Cloud Architect.
So these architects need to manage their teams well in view of their skills augmentation and the tasks rolling as per the DevOps Speed/Velocity concepts.
What kind of IT Professionals can be converted into DevOps Architect ?
Basically, the DevOps activities are related to more on Practices and Culture. If your background is related to the below areas in the past, your profile might suit to convert by learning the above mentioned skills.
You might have worked on Deployment areas
Worked in release management
Worked in Development processes implementation areas.
You should be savvy in implementing the Agile/Scrum/Lean practices.
You should have worked as a Servant leadership role also. [Even as a Scrum master]. In many cases this role is responsible to mentor the teams on different practices implementation by gearing up the teams to follow DevOps Velocity.
You should have worked in Identifying the retrospective issues very well and implemented the improvements in different Sprint cycles.
He/she should be savvy in learning new technology and transform the knowledge to the teams well. This knowledge should be very simple on the tools features related areas and how they can utilize them in their setup ? How they can reduce the efforts and cost to the company with a ROI Demonstration. They need to prove it to management with a POC.
This person is responsible to show some ROI as Cloud Architect does it on DevOps New practices implementation.
The DevOps Architect reports to the DevOps Practices head or CIO or CTO. Where as the Cloud Architect reports to CIO or CTO. Depends on the size of the organization, there can be Chief Cloud architect also, where all the Cloud architects report to this position.
Why the DevOps practice team is required to involve in Infra cloud planning?
I was talking to some clients recently on the importance of Cloud migration activities planning. I have come with some guidelines for them as part of my engagement. Some of my guidelines given to them, I would like to share as below.
When the DevOps practice team need to do the infra setup for a cloud migration they also need to participate on the identification of Infra activities and the specifications. Which is very essential.
This need to be done as initial step with any Cloud services migration.
As per my opinion we can work with any cloud services like; AWS/AZURE/Google Cloud, etc., by having the above activity as mandatory.
The attached blog/Video contains the same discussion with the details of the steps required to setup a Virtual Private Cloud. The VPC nomenclature we might have seen with AWS. But similar setup or name cane be there with other Cloud service providers also.
Once this VPC is created the systems are going to be hosted on Cloud.
The Ops team’s responsibility is; to make sure the Cloud migration is correctly and completely done for all the live setup.
At the same time they also need to conduct a pilot testing activity successfully which is mandated as per the Agile Projects management [Agile PM] standards before they announce go live.
They also need to do a parallel run along with the past production setup with a new cloud setup for few weeks.
Below URL contains the initial planning discussion as mentioned:
So to catch the market or scale yourself in IT Cloud needs, you need to learn it.
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2. Please look into this!! This is valuable and great opportunity for you!! to step down into it.
3. There are many IT professionals globally converting through right mentors, from Traditional role into this role to catch up the global IT market demand!! to sustain in IT Payrolls…….!!
4.Please come back for a discussion, after all the below links/blogs/videos walk-through thoroughly.
AWS SSA salary is higher than any other roles in AWS.
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Also please note;
Being experienced IT Professional, I don’t give live projects like training companies.
Because I don’t handle any AWS client projects just for this course.
But as per the IT delivery life cycle standards we will create some Proof of Concept projects during this course, which can be used for a client demo later by you.
You as Cloud architect, will be able to take-up/handle confidently the client projects after this course.
At the same time, I don’t place anybody after coaching. After learning you need to expose the international IT Job market.
If interested on this learning please come to a call to discuss the same by booking time with a scheduled call.
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This video has the discussion on AWS S3 Bucket/Objects Pre-signed URL. 1. What is S3 Pre-signed URL ? 2. How it can be made for Bucket and objects ? 3. How to share the Bucket objects in Cross Region replication ? 5. What are the security/access levels need to be followed to share to users ? 6. How these features can be used for a Movies hosting site for a limited period ?
This has the discussion video on S3 Logging, Events and the pattern usage also.
If you are a Cloud Architect, you might do project initiation for Cloud migration projects. During that time you need to have a plan to get series of activities and to make a project schedule. You might need to see this discussion Video also along with your planning. It will add value for your future efforts savings or can reduce repeat activities. Please send your feedback by e-mail [mentioned in it], which can encourage us to make such Consulting/discussion videos sharing on Social.
With reference to my previous blog on the role of Cloud architect, in this blog I would like to present on:
What is Traditional Infrastructure planning and building analysis ?
How to setup a new Infrastructure for an E-commerce [simple site] in Traditional manner ?
What are the Activities we might do ?
How to compare them in high level with a Cloud Architecting ?
If the Cloud architect apply these practices in his/her area, lot of time for roll back/back out tasks can be reduced during migration.
The following One hour Video has the entire elaboration for your clarity with a Consulting/Training discussion:
How to create Virtual Machine[VM] on Windows 10 using Vagrant/Virtual Box.
In this exercise, we will see the following sections/topics/activities:
Let us consider the below two activities.
I. How to Install Vagrant and VirtualBox ? II. How to Initialize our first virtual environment with Vagrant setup ?
I. How to Install Vagrant and VirtualBox ?:
Step1: Selecting the Virtual Box Initially, we need to install the software required to manage a virtual machine environment, which is a hypervisor as well as the Vagrant software itself. In this activity, we will install VirtualBox to use it with Vagrant.
VirtualBox is an open source hypervisor that was initially made as the only hypervisor and supported by Vagrant. The VirtualBox is broadly supported by the Vagrant community.
Before we install the VirtualBox and Vagrant software, we need to obtain its latest versions. VirtualBox can be downloaded from its project website at http://virtualbox.org.
Please note, in this exercise we are going to use for Linux installations [VMs] only. Also note, in this exercise I am using Windows10 as OS. Hence I need to select for my use the windows version under Windows hosts.
When we click on it, it downloads the file named as “VirtualBox-5.2.16-123759-Win”, as on date this is the file exists. [it might vary time to time]. You can install it on your desktop/Laptop now.
A new installation of VirtualBox will display a welcome message in a window titled as “Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager”. When you have created more than one virtual machines, this dialog displays information about the machines created using VirtualBox.
Step2: Getting Vagrant to operate the Virtual Box Now, we need to get the Vagrant file to install. Vagrant packages are operating system-specific and can be downloaded from the Vagrant website at http://vagrantup.com. Download the appropriate version for your system [example: Windows10]. You can find, Windows 32-bit or 64-bit. In my current Laptop, I use 64 bit. You can find the file as “vagrant_2.1.5_x86_64” to download the same. Now install it after its download. Vagrant setup wizard will drive you with it easy guidelines. It installs by default into:C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\ It takes few minutes to copy the files and install into your Desktop/Laptop.
Step3: Identify the Vagrant installation Now, It will ask you to reboot your machine. Once you rebooted your system, please follow the below steps.
How Vagrant works?: Let us understand; Vagrant followed the below procedure in the above Step2. The Vagrant installer extracted and copied its files, and added the vagrant command to the executable path. On Windows OS, this will install Vagrant to the default OS X Applications/ directory. Also let us note; Vagrant is a command-line driven application, there are no programs accessed from this OS. Now, by opening a command prompt [CMD in windows] let us verify that Vagrant is working. We need to do it by executing: “vagrant version” command in CMD.
We can see the below screen output in CMD window: === CMD window output ====> C:\Users\Windows>vagrant version Installed Version: 2.1.5 Latest Version: 2.1.5
You’re running an up-to-date version of Vagrant! ===========================>
From the above output;
It is confirmed, we are ready to start using Vagrant!
Let us recap, What we have done is; we installed a working Vagrant environment which consists of:
a) A hypervisor application that can contain virtual machines.
b) Also let us note; Vagrant is a tool that makes managing these machines simpler and available.
c) It is important here to note that Vagrant is simply a framework to manage virtual machines.
d) It is not an application to create and host virtual machines.
II. How to Initialize our first virtual environment with Vagrant setup ?:
As mentioned in the above sections, once we have a working Vagrant environment with a hypervisor, we can initialize our first environment. There are two ways we can work with Vagrant to achieve this task: a) In a new environment with a newly initialized Vagrantfile. b) In an environment which is maintained in source control system (such as Git, SVN, etc.), which has a Vagrantfile included in a project and keeping Vagrantfiles for different purposes of the projects.
This is a powerful technique to manage and track changes in Vagrant environments. This kind of method can be more useful to build the Environments easily with the concept of Infrastructure As a Code [IAC] under DevOps culture. Which is also a script driven [automated IAC] process.
But in this example, we will initialize a new environment with the basic configuration of a Vagrantfile.
Step1: Let us create a vagrantfile with vagrant init command as below to get an ubuntu 16.04 machine with 32 bit.
I have copied my screen display with used commands for this process.
I need to have a different folder and used the below command in that folder”.
vagrant init puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm
=== Screen output ===>
C:\>md dir vagrant-files
C:\>cd vagrant-files
C:\vagrant-files>
C:\vagrant-files>vagrant init puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm A `Vagrantfile` has been placed in this directory. You are now ready to `vagrant up` your first virtual environment! Please read the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on `vagrantup.com` for more information on using Vagrant.
C:\vagrant-files>
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Step2: Making Vagrant up
Before running this step please make sure you have installed the Oracle VirtualBox as mentioned in the previous section.
Now, In Command Window execute the below command.
“vagrant up”
This command might output several results; I am copying my screen output which was displayed. It takes few minutes to complete this activity.
=== Screen output for vagrant up=====>
C:\vagrant-files>vagrant up Bringing machine ‘default’ up with ‘virtualbox’ provider… ==> default: Box ‘puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm’ could not be found. Attempting to find and install… default: Box Provider: virtualbox default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Loading metadata for box ‘puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm’ default: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm ==> default: Adding box ‘puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm’ (v1.0.0) for provider: virtualbox default: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/puppetlabs/boxes/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm/versions/1.0.0/providers/virtualbox.box default: Download redirected to host: s3.amazonaws.com default: ==> default: Successfully added box ‘puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm’ (v1.0.0) for ‘virtualbox’! ==> default: Importing base box ‘puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm’… ==> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking… ==> default: Checking if box ‘puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-nocm’ is up to date… ==> default: Setting the name of the VM: vagrant-files_default_1536967979621_87087 Vagrant is currently configured to create VirtualBox synced folders with the `SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate` option enabled. If the Vagrant guest is not trusted, you may want to disable this option. For more information on this option, please refer to the VirtualBox manual:
This option can be disabled globally with an environment variable:
VAGRANT_DISABLE_VBOXSYMLINKCREATE=1
or on a per folder basis within the Vagrantfile:
config.vm.synced_folder ‘/host/path’, ‘/guest/path’, SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate: false ==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces… ==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration… default: Adapter 1: nat ==> default: Forwarding ports… default: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1) ==> default: Booting VM… ==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes… default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222 default: SSH username: vagrant default: SSH auth method: private key default: Warning: Connection reset. Retrying… default: Warning: Remote connection disconnect. Retrying… default: Warning: Connection aborted. Retrying… default: default: Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace default: this with a newly generated keypair for better security. default: default: Inserting generated public key within guest… default: Removing insecure key from the guest if it’s present… default: Key inserted! Disconnecting and reconnecting using new SSH key… ==> default: Machine booted and ready! ==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM… default: The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of default: VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can default: prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If you see default: shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions within the default: virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have installed on default: your host and reload your VM. default: default: Guest Additions Version: 5.0.20 default: VirtualBox Version: 5.2 ==> default: Mounting shared folders… default: /vagrant => C:/vagrant-files
C:\vagrant-files>
=== End of Vagrant up process ====>
Please note with the above activity is completed, your VirtualBox window will show this VM as its status “running”. It means you are able to see this newly created VM in your “Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager”.
Step3: Checking the box
Now let us use check this VM in a Command line:
After Vagrant returns to the command line, executing the “vagrant ssh” command will open a command-line interface into the newly initialized Virtual Machine[VM].
You can see the screen output:
==== vagrant ssh ====>
C:\vagrant-files>vagrant ssh Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ New release ‘18.04.1 LTS’ available. Run ‘do-release-upgrade’ to upgrade to it.
vagrant@localhost:~$ ls vagrant@localhost:~$
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At the same time you can also go to your “Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager”, and double click on it. It will show a button “Show”, you can click on it. Opens a window with this VM.
Please note; In this exercise we have created the base box only. Hence we are not going to use this VM for our future operation.
You can see the local dir as:
== Current dir details ===>
C:\vagrant-files>dir Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 5A33-A94E
Now, we will see : a) How to exit, b) How to Destroy this VM.
a) How to exit: We can exit it by using the command :
“control-d command, or by typing exit”
b) How to Destroy this VM: We can Destroy the virtual machine, by discarding the entire working environment. This can be done with the “vagrant destroy” command.
When you use this command, Vagrant will now prompt you to make sure that you want to destroy the environment; type “y” to proceed with destroying the environment and deleting the VM.
=== Output for Destroy===>
C:\vagrant-files>vagrant ssh VM must be running to open SSH connection. Run `vagrant up` to start the virtual machine.
C:\vagrant-files>vagrant destroy default: Are you sure you want to destroy the ‘default’ VM? [y/N] ==> default: Destroying VM and associated drives…
C:\vagrant-files>
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You can also check in the GUI of the “Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager”. It will not have this VM.
In this simple vagrant exercise in summary we have done the below steps;
We have downloaded and configured “Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager”.
We have installed Vagrant.
Created a Vagrant virtual box.
We could connect to it in a command line interface and checked the linux [ls] commands. We also cross verified it in “Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager” on its appearance as VM.
Finally, we destroyed this VM.
That is all about this exercise. You can create any number of VMs like this.
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Let us recap our Laptop making as Dual OS for Windows and Linux. In traditional manner we used to run behind one desktop engineer to config such dual os by paying Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 2,000 [In Indian Metro cities]. Now you can estimate how much effort and money you can save by using Cloud Technology. This VM can be copied to other Laptops/Desktops also with ORACLE Virtual Box Installation. You can do your R&D very well using this VM. You can install your applications and test/develop in Linux.
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How to convert a Banking traditional Infra into VPC: 1. Take the standard architecture diagram. 2. Identify one function ex: Retail Banking. 3. Analyze the required VPC components as per AWS services definition. 4. Document the required components below:
To do tasks: 1. Identify subnets 2. Idenitfy gateways 3. Identify NAT instance 4. Identify the Load balancer 5. Identify Servers 6. Identify Private and public subnets categories
Below video has the discussion on this design planning.
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How to create and activate a new account in AWS ?:
In this blog, you will see the required steps for creating and activating your new AWS account. Once have the activated account, you can start your other lab practices as I discuss in the class timely.
The following are the main 4 steps process we need to follow:
STEP1: Creating your account. It consists of 2 steps: a) Providing a valid e-mail address and choosing a password. b) Providing your contact information and setting your preferences.
STEP2: Add a payment method Please note; you need to have a valid CC to give its details. Amazon verifies its transaction also with a tiny charge and with a credit back. If by mistaken given wrong data please note; your account registration process will not be activated. You will be intimated by mail. This way Amazon is authenticating/authorizing us for AWS usage.
STEP3: Verify your phone number. You need to Provide a phone number where you can be reached in next few minutes, while creating your account.
STEP4: Choose the AWS Support plans. Time to time the AWS plans will be published. You need to choose the plan from the currently available plans for your needs. The relevant URL is given in the detailed steps section in this blog.
As a consolidated process, we can understand from the below flow chart. Which is from the collection of AWS process charts.
b). Now, Choose Sign Up. Click on Create an AWS account. You can see new page with Create an AWS account. You need to enter the required details. E-mail id, Pwd, AWS Account name [you can give any name for this]. And choose continue to go to next page. Please note; The above steps are valid for the new users of AWS. If you enter your email address entered incorrectly, you might not be able to access your account or change your password in the future. So you need to be careful on your data entry part. Let us assume; if you’ve signed in to AWS recently, it might say Sign In to the Console. So you need to login into your existing Account.
c). Now in the current page, choose Professional or personal. These two areas will give equal services. Depends on your need You can choose one of the options.
d). From the above options choosed, type the requested company or personal information entries. Note; At this point, You need to go through the AWS Customer Agreement to know their policies and procedures to follow while operating.
e). Finally, you choose Create Account and Continue options in the bottom.
f). Please note; at this point you will receive an e-mail to confirm that your account is created. Now, you can sign in to your new account using the valid email address and valid password you have supplied earlier.
Please note; we have done the Step1 only, the activation process is not yet completed to use the AWS services. Still we need to follow 3 more steps.
STEP2: Add a payment method- Detailed steps:
At this point; On the Payment Information page,
a) Choose the payment method as per the payment gateway standards which is displayed.
b) Type the requested information associated with your payment method. Please make sure the address for your payment method is the same as the address you provided for your account. Note; If your billing address is different; then choose Use a new address, type the billing address for your payment method.
c) Now, choose Secure Submit.
STEP3: Verify your phone number.
Please keep a valid and handy phone number at this point.
a) On this Phone Verification page, type a phone number where can use to accept incoming phone calls.
b) Enter the code displayed in the captcha. When you’re ready to receive a call, choose Call me now option.
c) In a few moments, an automated system will call you to your given phone number. Even it might have SMS feature also, if you are outside North America region.
d) Type the provided PIN on your phone’s keypad of the AWS screen. e) After the process is complete, choose Continue.
You can select the AWS support plans from the given list.
b) After your selection of a Support plan, a confirmation page denotes that your account is being activated.
c) Please note; Accounts are usually activated within a few minutes, but the process might take up to 24 hours. This process includes the validation of Bank/CC account given there.
d) Hence keep looking for a mail on this subject from Amazon to start your AWS services usage.
Assuming everything went well, and your AWS account is activated now. Congratulations!
We can look into next lab with reference to the class session.
2. AWS: WordPress[WP] infrastructure creation using a free tier account
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It downloads the installer as below:
You can see the downloaded installer file for Jenkins.
How to install Jenkins?:
Now you can copy this file into a new directory as Jenkins.
I have copied into the below directory.
You need to unzip this file.
You can see the new directory is created with its unzipped files:
You can double click on it and can see the below screen:
I have changed the path as below:
Click on install and say “Yes” in windows confirmation screen.
You can see the below screen:
Once you click on finish, it will take you to a browser:
Jenkins will have a default user id as “admin” and the password.
The password is available from the given path.
You can open this file in notepad as below:
Now, copy this password as below into windows clipboard.
Now you goto the Jenkins browser and paste this password.
Close your notepad.
Now, on browser press continue.
You can see the Jenkins initial screen as below for plugins selection:
Jenkins will have 100s of plugins. But there are default plugins those can be used initially to save you disk space and time. Hence now, you click on “Install suggested plugins”.
It will show the below screen as it is working for this activity:
You can see in the right side window the tasks what Jenkins is doing:
You can also watch as it is doing one by one the plugins installation and the tasks on right side.
It might take more than 30 mts depends on your internet speed and the RAM.
I am copying some of the screens as it is moving on …
Once the plugins are installed, you can see the 1st screen to setup your 1st admin user id and password as below:
You can enter the details and click on “Save and Finish” button.
Now, it shows the below screen with Jenkins readyness to use:
When you click on “Start using Jenkins” button,
You can see the below screen as in the beginning of the Jenkins usage:
Please observe the right corner and verify your created user id.
Now, let us do some login and logout operations to make sure it is working.
When you logout you can see the below screen:
Now let us understand the url of Jenkins server which we are using:
When we install Jenkins in any machine either Windows or Linux.
By default its url should be : http://localhost:8080/
Your local host is your current machine Ip address.
You can see the screen now with the above url:
Now, you can try one more option, check your ip address from command prompt as below:
You can pickup the 1st IP address which displays from the command prompt screen.
Now, let us see What is 8080?:
Every server software creates a port address to access its web pages from the installed machine. In our case Jenkins has been configured on 8080 port as default. The 8080 is a default port for Jenkins. Similarly other server softwares also will have their specific ports.
Now, I have used a different browser using the above url to access Jenkins web page as below:
Using the login screen I am logging into my admin user id: vskumar2017 , which was created earlier.
You can also check in your windows services on Jenkins running status.
Please note on this setup, you have made a standalone Jenkins by using your PC or Laptop.
Now, you can restart your windows machine. You need to start Jenkins as fresh service.
To start Jenkins from command line
Open command prompt.
Go to the directory where your war file is placed and run the following command: java -jar jenkins.war
OR One more option is; go to your Jenkins directory in CMD window and execute: jenkins.exe start
Open browser and Use you can check the Jenkins access. It should be showing the login page.
How to remove Jenkins from your system?:
If you want to remove Jenkins from your system, you can find the Jenkins Windows installer file from the Jenkins directory and double click on it. You can see the below window to choose your action:
So far we have seen the installation of Java 9 and Jenkins.
Some times, you might need to configure other servers [Ex:Tomcat, etc,]. They might also use 8080 port. Hence there will be conflict. We need to change the port# in that case.
Now, How to change your 8080 port to other port#?:
Please find Jenkins.xml in Jenkins dir:
Ex:
In my system I have the URL:D:\Jenkins\Jenkins 2.9
You need to replace 8080 with the required port# in the below line:
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