AWS Limits

With the flexiblity of Amazon Web Services (AWS) you can create many servers in minutes. This is great from a scaling up point of view. Your PR department have just informed you that a segment about your product is about to appear on national TV. You expect a spike in traffic, but its okay because of the preperation work and auto-scaling.

Software Updates and Technical Debt

I cannot stress enough how important it is to keep updated with the latest software versions. This does give us two problems however.

Docker on Nomad

Running docker containers on a cluster has several solutions available today:

• ECS, Amazons Elastic Container Service
• Kubernetes - A docker clustering and scheduling solution from programmers at Google
• Docker Swarm - Native clustering from Docker which I covered in a setup last week
• Hashicorp’s Nomad - A task scheduler for clusters that supports Docker

Docker Swarm

This weeks challenge. Automate the creation of a docker swarm.

6 steps to becoming a cloud expert

Though the cloud means different things to different people, as a basic concept, it’s really very simple. Instead of storing data and running applications on your home or work computer, it’s stored and processed on remote machines that are accessed via the Internet. This alternative method of computing has spawned a variety of new concepts, technologies and services, some of which have made their cross back into the in-house environment in the form of private clouds.