This post is a continuation of divide-your-application-into-smaller-chunks Let us assume we have a VM where you can run containers. However, after running X number of VMs, it may not be able to run any additional containers. …

An application always starts small. As it matures, more features and code gets added and becomes larger. Eventually, the application gets divided into separate projects focusing on different key areas. Then, some parts of it can be deployed together and others separately. Let’s talk about extreme scenarios: if applications are…

Let’s assume that you added more features to your website. It gathers information from user, writes to database, shows users various data. It’s not just website anymore. It’s a web-application now. People started noticing your application and it became viral. Tons of people interacted with it. Your VM is getting…

In publishing-a-website, we looked at a sample website running on a single Virtual Machine (VM) in the cloud. If your VM was terminated accidentally, people won’t be able to reach to your website. To prevent this you can use “Termination Protection” feature. But things can still go wrong! Let’s assume…

After creating a VM and deploying an application on it, if disk/memory/cpu usage increases drastically then your application may stop responding. In order to handle such kind of situation, monitoring such components is important. Usually, cloud provider provide a monitoring service which can keep track of various resources created on…

Let’s say you have an awesome idea for a website. You spun up a VM in cloud and started working on the content for your website. This post is part of https://jigarr.medium.com/list/cloud-made-easy-8c91475ff513 series. Sample website If you have created a Linux VM, then you can start a sample hello-world website…

When we buy a laptop or mobile phone, disk storage is an important consideration. The same applies to your VMs running in a Virtual Private Cloud. The raw disk-drives that you can buy from stores and connect it to your machine is an example of a block storage. Block storage…

Let’s say if you want to try out an operating system, you might have to get a hardware, install operating system. If you already have a machine then you might have considered dual boot or virtual machine. This kind of exercises are good when you want to learn these things…

This post is a continuation of Intro to Infrastructure as Code (IaC)— https://jigarr.medium.com/save-your-private-cloud-setup-intro-to-infrastructure-as-code-4fa89a23ecec. CloudFormation tool works exclusively with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Here are few important questions one would encounter while using IaC. How to define resources ? All of the resources such as Virtual machine, security group, elastic IP…