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Cloud-based File Sharing Tool Collections
BoxBox began as a consumer-focused cloud storage platform, but the service has since added several enterprise features, such as Active Directory management and integration with other productivity...
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Cloud Services Model
I am a strong believer of Cloud Computing. It is the trend of the IT industry, no matter hardware vendors or software vendors will eventually step in this filed or die. Actually, it is happening now....
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A Bite of Windows Azure
Windows Azure is Microsoft public cloud platform, on which users can quickly build, deploy and manage Windows/Linux virtual machines, applications and websites across a global network of Microsoft...
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Good bye Google Reader, Hello Feedly!
Google announced Today that they will shut down Google Reader on July 1st. As a Google Reader user, I have found a new tool to replace it. Feedly is a cloud based RSS application which works on...
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Kick off my AWS journey
Amazon has been promoting AWS (Amazon Web Services) since they officially entered Australian market in November last year. I attended their AWS Summit 2013 last week in Sydney. Again, I am convinced...
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Create Windows instance in AWS
1) Login into Amazon Management Console and click ‘Launch Instance’. In the right top corner, you can choose which region you want the server to be placed. 2) Select an OS type. Here I choose Windows...
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Create Linux instance in AWS
Follow the same process described in Create Windows instance in AWS to build the Linux instance. The only two differences are the security group settings and the remote connection method. 1) Create a...
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Deploy a Microsoft SharePoint Server Farm 2010 in AWS Cloud in 6 Steps
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Amazon Web Services Products
AWS has a full stack of cloud products, and it is still growing as I can see. I am very interested to learn the AWS technology, the first step for me is to know what it can do. So I … Continue reading →
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My first look at AWS container service
First of all, unfortunately AWS ECS (EC2 Container Service) currently is not available in Australia. I guess it is not a surprise. As it happened to some other AWS products in the past as well. Simply...
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Understanding docker directory structure
I have docker installed on my Fedora box. Here I try to understand the structure of its directories. [root@mylab docker]# docker version Client version: 1.5.0 Client API version: 1.17 Go version...
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Docker infrastructure V1.1
I spent a couple days looking into Kubernetes which is a docker orchestration tool. It was initially developed by Google and used for managing the containers in Google cloud. I have set it up in my POC...
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Understanding Kubernetes
Continue with my previous post ‘Docker Infrastructure V1.1‘, I want to share some my understanding of how Kubernetes works. Logically, there are 3 basic components in Kubernetes. Pod,...
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AWS cross accounts access S3 buckets
When working on AWS cross accounts S3 access, I found out that – Only s3:CreateBucket, s3:ListAllMyBuckets and s3:GetBucketLocation 3 actions are allowed to set relative-id of Resource to “*“. For all...
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EC2 Instance assume role in other accounts
Besides IAM users, some AWS services can also assume roles. Here is the example of granting assume role permission to a EC2 instance. The scenario is that I have two accounts: In account A, I created a...
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Tips on saving AWS cost
I remember a few years back, lots companies were struggling with the VM sprawl problem. With the popularity of Cloud, the in house VM sprawl issues might be improved as most companies are moving to...
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Elastic Beanstalk Gotchas
Elastic Beanstalk is a great tool for the devs who wants a quick way to spin up web application environments which have ELB, ASG, RDS and DNS, also offer an easy way to deploy codes and manage the...
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Send VPC flow logs to Sumologic
VPC flow is a AWS feature that allows you to capture the inbound and outbound traffics of all network interfaces in your VPC. To get the information, you have to go to the Cloudwatch to read the raw...
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Hubot: CloudHealth ‘Oh My Bill’
‘Oh My Bill’ is a plugin that uses CloudHealth API to get your AWS cost report. Here are two files you need if you are interested to use: lib/omb.js and scripts/omb.js
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Elastic Beanstalk fail to launch environment
Elastic Beanstalk automatically creates S3 buckets under your AWS account to save the data (manifests, logs, application versions…) that is used by itself. If the files are gone, the environment may...
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