Deep Dive into Enterprise IT
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
Cloud adoption has gone through phases. Hashicorp’s CTO Armon Dadgar has a great stream on Hashcorp’s narrative of the three Phases of Cloud Adoption: New greenfield clients today should aim at phase 2 or phase 3 depending on their target operation size. Either way, they need a landing zone for consistency. This post focuses on … Read moreLanding Zone in AWS – Introduction
This post provides an example of using AWS CDK in Typescript. Ansible Tower and AWX We have used open-source Ansible extensively in the past. While the automation is convenient, the lack of UI makes it not as suitable as a team collaboration tool. One way to allow team collaboration with open-source Ansible, is to use … Read moreAWS CDK example in Typescript – provision an AWX server
There are two mechanisms to initialize instances in AWS. Cloud init and CloudFormation Init. Both are widely used and we discuss each of them in this posting. Then we will give an example of using AWS CDK in Python. Cloud-Init Cloud-Init is a service originally built for Ubuntu, as a bootstrapping utility to customize a … Read moreAWS CDK example in Python – provision Kubernetes Nodes
[Update] Some security improvement was introduced in may 2021. Here‘s detail. [Update] Here’s the link to the orthweb repository. In this project we introduce a medical imaging web service based on Orthanc, an open-source project of DICOM server, and a pipeline to deploy such server automatically and consistently. We deploy Orthanc on AWS automatically. This … Read moreAutomatic deployment of Orthanc on AWS