What is Puppet? Puppet is a configuration management tool developed by Puppet labs to automate infrastructure management and configuration. Puppet includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. It is a model-driven solution that requires limited programming knowledge to use. Puppet Architecture Puppet Master: It performs a critical role by handling all the configuration-related tasks. It applies the configuration to all the target nodes or the client machines. Puppet Agent: The Puppet Agent is the application that manages the […]
When migrating existing business services to Azure PaaS as part of an App Modernization project, you may find yourself seriously considering serverless computing using Azure Functions, especially if your target architecture includes MicroServices. Azure Functions let you focus on what counts — your requirements, your time and your code — and less about boilerplate code, infrastructure and processes. When creating new APIs in any technology, one thing is very important: Documenting those APIs so that others can use them. This […]
Establishing a Clear Cloud Adoption Strategy As we hear a lot of buzz about cloud adoption, I wanted to share my thoughts about cloud adoption approaches and strategies to migrating on-premises workloads to public clouds in this blog. This blog predominantly covers infrastructure assets migration in line with applications. As many would feel that cloud adoption brings significant cost savings to OpEx and CapEx, it requires meticulous planning, design, and architecting. This requires careful consideration of various aspects such as […]
The first AWS service (S3) was launched in September 2006. My humble journey in the cloud started in 2007, leading up to my first cloud talk in New York in 2008. In this blog post, I want to talk about what I, and we collectively, have learned from the last decade in the cloud and how to use this knowledge to drive cloud value. Let us get started. By now, the transformational benefits of the cloud are well established. Look […]
When migrating existing business services to Azure PaaS as part of an App Modernization project, you may find yourself seriously considering serverless computing using Azure Functions, especially if your target architecture includes MicroServices. Azure Functions let you focus on what counts — your requirements, your time, and your code — and less about boilerplate code, infrastructure, and processes. When creating new APIs in any technology, one thing is very important: Documenting those APIs so that others can use them. This […]
In May, AIS held an internal hackathon for Microsoft Power Platform to expose our team to the platform, concepts, approaches through hands-on experience and to demonstrate the role Power Platform plays in modernizing legacy applications in the cloud. The integration team focused on leveraging existing Power Platform connectors to add new functionality to the system. For example, the system sends the order confirmation email to the user using the Office Outlook connector in the Power Automate Flow. Similarly, it sends […]
In May, AIS held an internal hackathon for Microsoft Power Platform to expose our team to the platform, concepts, approaches through hands-on experience and to demonstrate the role Power Platform plays in modernizing legacy applications in the cloud. The DevOps team automated the portal deployment process using Power DevOps Tools and deployed the solution across three environments (dev, test, prod). Since Microsoft Power Platform does not support source control and versioning, the team used Azure DevOps as the solution repository and version control. Introduction When building […]
In May, AIS held an internal hackathon for Microsoft Power Platform to expose our team to the platform, concepts, approaches through hands-on experience and to demonstrate the role Power Platform plays in modernizing legacy applications in the cloud. The front-end team focused on building the Power Apps Portal for the end-users and a model-driven app for the administrators. The Portal allowed the users to browse through the product catalog, add an item to the cart, place an order, view their past orders, and […]
In this article, I am going to explain Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in detail. First, we’ll cover what it is, how it works in the backend, and our options in DRS settings. DRS is not to balance the load perfectly across every host. Rather, DRS monitors the resource demand and ensures that every Virtual Machine (VM) is entitled to the resources. When DRS determines that a better host exists for the VM, it recommends moving that VM. Two Primary functions […]
Gain control with Azure Management Groups As enterprises start to move to Azure, managing subscriptions becomes tedious with the growing number of subscriptions. In an organization, there are usually many employees and, in some cases, many applications. If all these employees are provided Azure subscriptions and start creating Azure resources at will, it may soon become difficult to control, manage, and track who creates what. Eventually, the costs may go out of control. However, organizing your subscriptions using Azure Management […]