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Automation / Cloud / Google Cloud Platform / Infrastructre & Hardware
by Gini Gangadharan · Published January 16, 2020
Yes, your server and data are on cloud, but to avoid the risk of unexpected data loss still you need to follow standard backup mechanisms provided by cloud providers like snapshots or replication. The...
How To / Infrastructre & Hardware
by Shibin John · Published January 9, 2020 · Last modified January 13, 2020
I had been using several migration tools. However VMware HCX ( Hybrid Cloud Extension ) has some unique feature that allows end user to easy-to-use, easy-to-migrate. Migration can be from on-premise to on-premise from...
GNS3 (Graphical Network Simulator) is the most popular – open source, free software – tool for designing and simulating network infrastructure. GNS3 has 2 parts The GNS3-all-in-one software (GUI) The GNS3 virtual machine (VM)...
Cloud / How To / Infrastructre & Hardware / Microsoft Azure
by Gini Gangadharan · Published November 8, 2019
As we know public cloud is offering unlimited* amount of resources and as an end user of public cloud we don’t need to worry about the backend resources. But, there are few facts to...
Automation / Cloud / Docker / How To / Infrastructre & Hardware
by Gini Gangadharan · Published October 22, 2019
When it comes to VCS (Version Control System), we will have confusion as we have many products in market with almost same capabilities. When we think about enterprise level usage, GitLab, GitHub, Subversion, Bitbucket...
Automation / Cloud / Google Cloud Platform / Infrastructre & Hardware
by Gini Gangadharan · Published January 16, 2020
Yes, your server and data are on cloud, but to avoid the risk of unexpected data loss still you need to follow standard backup mechanisms provided by cloud providers like snapshots or replication. The...
How To / Infrastructre & Hardware
by Shibin John · Published January 9, 2020 · Last modified January 13, 2020
I had been using several migration tools. However VMware HCX ( Hybrid Cloud Extension ) has some unique feature that allows end user to easy-to-use, easy-to-migrate. Migration can be from on-premise to on-premise from...
GNS3 (Graphical Network Simulator) is the most popular – open source, free software – tool for designing and simulating network infrastructure. GNS3 has 2 parts The GNS3-all-in-one software (GUI) The GNS3 virtual machine (VM)...
Cloud / How To / Infrastructre & Hardware / Microsoft Azure
by Gini Gangadharan · Published November 8, 2019
As we know public cloud is offering unlimited* amount of resources and as an end user of public cloud we don’t need to worry about the backend resources. But, there are few facts to...
Automation / Cloud / Docker / How To / Infrastructre & Hardware
by Gini Gangadharan · Published October 22, 2019
When it comes to VCS (Version Control System), we will have confusion as we have many products in market with almost same capabilities. When we think about enterprise level usage, GitLab, GitHub, Subversion, Bitbucket...
Google Container Registry (GCR) is a service in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to manage your own docker container repository. This is fully managed service and you can store your custom container images as well...
Ansible / Automation / Cloud / Infrastructre & Hardware
by Gini Gangadharan · Published September 24, 2019
Ansible Tower is a wonderful product which help to implement a central hub for IT automation. Ansible Tower is basically a web console and REST API for underlying Ansible Engine but with more features...
Ansible facts are nothing but some variables which are automatically discovered by the Ansible on managed hosts while running ansible adhoc commands or playbooks. See Automation with Ansible full chapters. Ansible Facts Examples Hostname...
Ansible / Automation / Infrastructre & Hardware / Scripts
by Gini Gangadharan · Published August 30, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2019
Ansible Variables You can use variables in ansible plays to store values like users to create, packages to install etc. By using variables, you can manage your plays with dynamic input values. See Automation...
Cloud / How To / Infrastructre & Hardware / Network / Security
by Gini Gangadharan · Published August 8, 2019
You might be a Sysadmin, developer, DBA or whatever, logs are like treasure boxes for anyone working in IT. And the best practice to keep logs in a central location together with local copy....
