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Introduction to Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager addresses a lot of SysOps requirements for configuration management, including server automation. In this domain, there is another AWS service called OpsWorks. However, with OpsWorks Stack, OpsWorks Chef and OpsWorks Puppet all coming EOL in 2024, the entire OpsWorks service is mostly deprecated. By partnering with leaders such … Read moreThe Systems Manager Hodgepodge
As a continuation to the last post, we explore the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) as an orchestration tool in this post. LZA borrows a lot from the ASEA, an accelerator project to deploy the security reference architecture (SRA). LZA is a multi-purpose project that consists of both the orchestration engine (the accelerator itself) … Read moreOrchestrate Landing Zone with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS
Following an introduction to AWS Landing Zone, I’ll dive deeper into Control Tower as an orchestration tool in this post. More on Landing Zone In data center operation, there are numerous tasks that other teams have to complete before the the deployment of an application. For example, the 42U server cabinet must be in place … Read moreOrchestrate Landing Zone with AWS Control Tower
For server CPU, the most common architectures today are amd64 (aka x86_64) and arm64. Although AMD developed the former first, Intel names it as x86_64 (or x64 for short). In terms of compatibility, they are the same. In general, arm64 architecture consumes less power and therefore mobile systems first favour it. Its power efficiency now … Read moreKubernetes with Multiple CPU Architectures 2 of 2 – Node and Workload
I recently renewed my associate administrator certification, and feel it’s a good opportunity to brush up on Azure landing zone. The lame part of this is the semantics. I found many similar terms across cloud service provider (CSPs). In the context of Azure, it makes sense to clarify the terms again for Cloud Adoption Framework … Read moreLanding Zone in Azure – Introduction
Last fall I worked on a demo project for IoT device tracking on AWS so I had some reading. Overview From a strategic level, as servers move away to the cloud, AWS envisions that the footprint left on premise will mainly be IoT devices. The role of the cloud therefore becomes a central point of … Read moreA taste of IoT device tracking