Infrastructure as code is managing and provisioning of infrastructure using code (basically property files and configuration files that define your setup and configuration files for the software you plan to use on it) instead of manually doing it. Using an automated method to handle your infrastructure saves a lot of time that lets you do… Read More »Chef vs Ansible vs Puppet vs Terraform vs Saltstack
AWS, Azure, GCP and openstack are all cloud platforms that give you a variety of hosting features and a lot more. All of them differ a great deal and today are used quite a lot in many places. There are a lot of other providers but none comes as close to AWS, Azure and GCP… Read More »AWS vs Azure vs GCP vs Openstack in a nutshell
The hosting market today is a very competitive place, providing various services including support and services that manage your service. Whether you are just hosting a website on a shared host, VMs, containers or even dedicated rentals, due to competitive pricing, everyone overprovisions except if mentioned which are typically more expensive. A dedicated VM service… Read More »Overprovisioning and Overusing compute resources
When dealing with VMs, if you didnt plan your filing and partitions well and went ahead with root, you may one day be extending this. For instance you may only provision 10GB of EBS on EC2 on amazon at first, then as your files grow such as logs and say content for your website you… Read More »Extending the root LVM on linux live