Category AWS

What is On-Premises, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and IaC?

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  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • On-Premise
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Examples I’ve used

What are the differences?

Infrastructure as Code

So what is IaC, Infrastructure as Code? Standardise Infrastructure, Automate deployment and recreate, well-documented code. Exampled formats such as JSON & ARM templates.

DevOps teams will use IaC to recreate production like environments in dev cycles. Validate and Test deployments, prior to a production deployment. The end result being able to deliver a stable and repeatable environment.

Azure Resource Manager

The alternative to just running scripts. Manage your infrastructure resources in a group by templates. In addition, you apply security (RBAC) and tags, then associate costs to the group.

VMworld 2018 Barcelona Highlights

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Stephen Hackers from Hot Wired IT Solutions affiliate partner to HTG (Howell Technology Group) made the trip to VMworld Barcelona 2018 with Kevin Howell (HTG), Graham Wight (HTG) and Tony Cota.

Overview

Tech Experts Meetings + Design Workshops + Vendors + Hall Sessions = A great experience and excellent value for money.

Things I learnt…

  1. Download the VMworld App
  2. Book sessions early
  3. Register for a vendor party
  4. Participate where possible

VMworld through my eyes

  1. Download the app… Contains your pass, schedule, reminders, events, map, info and more.
  2. The photo every geek wants

3. Picked up my VMware vExpert 2018 goodie bag

 

4. Attended multiple design workshops. Signing NDA… Sorry no secrets being shared here.

VMware design_studio

 

5. Entered the Hackathon .. Joined an amazing team of 8 experts. (3rd place)

Chris Porter, Christopher Lewis, Colin Westwater, Dave Simpson, Dominik Zorgnotti, Gareth Edwards, Tony Cota and Stephen Hackers (Me).

We created and launched #PowerVKE. PowerShell module to deploy kubernetes. This was successful in taking 3rd place at the Hackathon

Available on GitHub https://github.com/PowerVKE

Follow on twitter https://twitter.com/PowerVKE

24 hours on from the Hackathon and Will PowerVKE name change to PowerPKS??

 

6. Meet the Vendors.

Vembu stand

NetApp with Ducati ( I was always going to visit any stand with a bike being a biker myself)

Quantum

 

7. Vendor party

Cohesity was our option

Great night out and some interesting glow in the dark / flashing devices for the night. The Queen tribute act was definitely worth watching. The friendly atmosphere was fantastic

 

8. Meet the Experts.

I attended two of these excellent sessions on PKS (kubernetes) and vSphere on AWS. As a techy I felt I got more business value in these 30-45min 1-1 tech sessions than in some of the high level presentations attended. That’s not to say the high level presentations were worth attending as well, but I got to ask in the 1-1 my homework for actual work I’m doing or planning on doing.

 

9.The End

Then the trip was over. Such an amazing few days. Already looking forward to VMworld 2019……

AWS – IT Study Notes by Tim Kendall

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Sharing a useful post I’ve come across on AWS (IT Study Notes by Tim Kendall)

Online Resources – AWS CSA
Each of the below links have been carefully sourced to give you accurate information to help study for the AWS CSA Associate exam.

Amazon Web Services – Whitepapers – https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/

Amazon Web Services – FAQ’s – https://aws.amazon.com/faqs/

Amazon Web Services – Exam Blueprint – https://d0.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-assoc/AWS_certified_solutions_architect_associate_blueprint.pdf

Jayendra’s Blog – http://www.jayendrapatil.com

ACloudGuru – https://acloud.guru

Booking the Exam
The exam is not taken with AWS directly, it is booked via WebAssessor and the exam is taken at Prometric Test Centre’s (UK). Click the below link and click ‘Schedule an exam’
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/

VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Overview

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VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Overview

VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Overview

Yesterday we launched the VMware Cloud on AWS service. VMware Cloud on AWS allows you to run your applications across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments based on VMware vSphere, with optimized access to AWS services. The Cloud SDDC consists of vSphere, NSX and vSAN technology to provide you a familiar environment which can be […] The post VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Overview appeared first on frankdenneman.nl .

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) – PoC

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  • Created an account – http://aws.amazon.com/
  • Setup a Windows 10 client
  • Installed using the download 3.4.3 x86 msi and ticked install paths.
    Tried x64 installed and had a few errors trying 3.5 version
  • The EB  Command Line Interface (CLI), used the following the guide
  • Followed the Amazon Install procedure below:

The Python Software Foundation provides installers for Windows that include pip.

To install Python 3.4, pip, and the EB CLI on Windows

  1. Install Python 3.4 from the downloads page of Python.org.
  2. Add the Python home and scripts directories to the Windows Path system variable: 
    C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\Python34;C:\Python34\Scripts
  3. Open the Windows Command Processor from the Start menu.
  4. Verify that Python and pip are both installed correctly with the following commands: 
    C:\Windows\System32> python --version
Python 3.4.3
C:\Windows\System32> pip --version
pip 6.0.8 from C:\Python34\lib\site-packages (python 3.4)
  5. Install the EB CLI using pip: 
    C:\Windows\System32> pip install awsebcli
Collecting awsebcli
  Downloading awsebcli-3.2.2.tar.gz (828kB)
Collecting pyyaml>=3.11 (from awsebcli)
  Downloading PyYAML-3.11.tar.gz (248kB)
Collecting cement==2.4 (from awsebcli)
  Downloading cement-2.4.0.tar.gz (129kB)
Collecting python-dateutil<3.0.0,>=2.1 (from awsebcli)
  Downloading python_dateutil-2.4.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (188kB)
Collecting jmespath>=0.6.1 (from awsebcli)
  Downloading jmespath-0.6.2.tar.gz
Collecting six>=1.5 (from python-dateutil<3.0.0,>=2.1->awsebcli)
  Downloading six-1.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: six, jmespath, python-dateutil, cement, pyyaml, awsebcli
  Running setup.py install for jmespath
  Running setup.py install for cement
  Running setup.py install for pyyaml
    checking if libyaml is compilable
    Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat).
    skipping build_ext
  Running setup.py install for awsebcli
    Installing eb-script.py script to C:\Python34\Scripts
    Installing eb.exe script to C:\Python34\Scripts
    Installing eb.exe.manifest script to C:\Python34\Scripts
Successfully installed awsebcli-3.2.2 cement-2.4.0 jmespath-0.6.2 python-dateutil-2.4.2 pyyaml-3.11 six-1.9.0
  6. Verify that the EB CLI is installed correctly: 
    C:\Windows\System32> eb --version
EB CLI 3.2.2 (Python 3.4.3)

” Install Python, pip, and the EB CLI on Windows

AWSome Day event in Manchester

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Notes based on Amazon AWS – AWSome Day event in Manchester
These are unverified notes taken at the event. Detail may be incorrect, but hopefully provide a rough guide to AWS.

Covers AWS foundational services

  • Gain a deeper understanding of AWS core and application services
  • Learn how to deploy and automate infrastructure on the AWS
  • CloudAmazon certification / accreditation ., platform accredited. Easier to accredit PCI DSS. Platform already done. You only need to accredit application
  • AWS has different levels and costs of storage.
  • Aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws
  • Control the permissions of users and what they can spin up.
  • S3 storage for the Internet. http or https, natively online, highly scalable, fast and reliable and fast    Use case , OS, backups, databases
  • EFS – multi attachment points – currently in preview mode
  • AWS STORAGE GATEWAY backups. Local machine , virtual machine which interacts with the cloud
  • Import and export supported USB devices or snowball a rack of storage.
  • Move to the cloud -> EC2 auto scaling and ELB
  • Cloud metrics will help size your EC2
  • Trusted advisor basic is free (Cost optimisation advice)
  • Auto scaling – schedule the scaling up and down.
  • Scaling is free, you only pay for additional EC2s
  • Cloud watch auto enabled when you spin up an EC2 for the hyper visor
  • Tag each EC2 instance ( who built it, what’s does it do )
  • Security Security groups, instance firewalls, VPC – Subnet control
  • Cloud trail- enabled per region. This will monitor and track all Api calls. Everything in AWS is an API call.
  • RDS – managed by AWS, backups & HA ( multi AZ required for no down time during patching)
  • ElastiCache – put in front of an RDS for better performance
  • Visual OPS third party app can create a formation template . Give it read  access to map.. Give it write to create
  • Cloud formation template and snapshot. Can restore and recover from an outage. Cloud formation gathers info on all VMs, networks & users and the template can recreate the full environment
  • Amazon redshift – petabyte scale DB service
  • Dynamo DB – no limits, Fast using SSD disks
  • AWS Database
  • Amazon route 53 is now a DNS registrar
  • Most common issue is Security permissions as everything is blocked by default.
  • user accounts – individual AWS credentials
  • SSL endpoint – secure transmission
  • Purchasing on demand, reserved or spot instances
  • Oracle
  • AWS marketplace
  • EC2 VMs are tied to the location you created it under. You will not see the VM in another location.
  • Start up- only pay when you start using
  • Compute
  • A way of posting data to AWS.
  •  Volumes can be resized, snapshot and create a new volume of another. You can also shrink if required and data / space allows.
  • EBS elastic storage, snapshots, single attachment. Can be detached & attached to another location
  • Glacier storage.. Storage of stuff you hope you never see again but you need to keep., like tax documents for seven years. Costs more to retrieve the data back. Encrypted.
  • Lamba websites, takes uploaded images, watermarks and optimises and uploads
  • AWS Simple money calculator
  • Create unique buckets for each of your projects
  • Learn identity & access management
  • Amazon RDS. Managing the patching, high availability. Reduces engineer time spent wasted patching. It’s done automatically. Same as spinning up services in other Zones for resilience
  • Register for aws for free and get Ec2 free tier for a year
  • Aws.amazon.com/new