Explore some pros and cons of Bottlerocket, the Linux-based open-source operating system by Amazon Web Services for running containers.
Explore some pros and cons of Bottlerocket, the Linux-based open-source operating system by Amazon Web Services for running containers.
Background A client recently wanted to move several DevOps and scanning tools into the cloud, to which they were in the process of proving out and transitioning. We had a number of security scanning and static analysis tools, along with corresponding dashboards and a continuous integration server to orchestrate them. All of these tools were […]
In this blog I would like to demonstrate how to use AWS EC2 container service with AWS Codebuild, which is a very powerful and handy tool to automate your builds, so that it helps you run your architecture in a more efficient and automated way. In ECS everything starts with a Docker container. If you […]
Here at Coveros, our accountants were facing significant issues with QuickBooks Premier Professional Services 2015. The initial login process was painfully slow, often taking up to twenty minutes to get a stable login. The software often struggled while switching between single-user mode and multi-user mode (which was done to allow multiple users to access the […]
In the last project I was involved in I needed to establish a connection between a Windows Server 2012 instance in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a physical Synology network-attached storage (NAS). The challenge was that the NAS was located at a remote site and was behind a router. I needed to do this in […]
Whether you’re setting up a VPN server or establishing SSL certificates for your internal websites, there are a lot of reasons to consider setting up your own certificate authority (CA) for your organization. On my current project, we ran into the former situation and quickly realized the widely recommended default of setting up a separate […]
I’m currently working on a DevOps project, heavily centered around AWS GovCloud. It’s important to point out I’m working in GovCloud, as opposed to AWS, as this means several key tools are missing. My colleague, Alan Crouch, recently pointed out how NAT Gateways are missing from the offered infrastructure. Another tool we found missing was Route 53, […]
As the Federal Government looks to adopt cloud services from Amazon Web Services, many agencies are looking to AWS GovCloud to be that provider because services have been accredited by the FedRAMP program. While this is a far better pill to swallow for security programs, it’s somewhat more of a headache for most developers and […]
Recently, I was on a project that required daily backups of an Amazon Web Services server. The Windows 2012 server stored critical company data that had to be available at all times. My team decided to accomplish the backup task by creating snapshots of the volume that was associated with the server on a daily […]
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a handy tool for online file storage that is often used when setting up VMs. While transferring data between availability zones in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a trivial task, transferring S3 buckets from AWS to AWS GovCloud requires a greater challenge. In order to start, you’ll need a […]
