AWS Resource Groups - KnowHow(s) - Series 5

AWS Resource Groups - KnowHow(s) - Series 4

AWS Resource Groups - KnowHow(s) - Series 3

AWS Resource Groups - KnowHow(s) - Series 2

AWS Resource Groups - KnowHow(s) - Series 1

RedHat Ansible - Code Review Tool - Part 2

RedHat Ansible - Code Review Tool - Part 1

AWS Community Day 2019 - Kochi

AWS Community Day 2019 - Kochi

Yet another milestone and I have been selected to present and share my experiences with a new topic of interest - AWS IAM 

Flyers are out !!! All are welcome !!

DESIGN4INDIA - A NASSCOM Initiative - Part IV

DESIGN4INDIA - A NASSCOM Initiative - Part IV

Another interesting session that excited me was 'Plenary Session: Creativity in the age of data' by Eric Cruz, a multi-award winning, Create leader, Director, Designer and what not

DESIGN4INDIA - A NASSCOM Initiative - Part III

DESIGN4INDIA - A NASSCOM Initiative - Part II

Another session that I attended and was of great insight was "Scaling Designs with Systems Thinking". Ideologies, principles and experiences in implementing those aspects were shared by market leaders, experts and all women, by the way

From Left to Right: Shilpa Kadam, Prachi, Ruchi Batra and Nitin Sethi

DESIGN4INDIA - A NASSCOM Initiative - Part II

DESIGN4INDIA - A NASSCOM Initiative - Part II

Happy to have attended workshop on Alexa by Sohan Maheshwar, Design Coach, Alexa Evangelist from Amazon

Thanks to Sohan, who explained and motivated everyone in the group to have interest on Alexa skill. He cleared the air of confusions where people think that Design is one and the same for Voice Based skills, as well. Folks, we are wrong if we thought so

Here are few of the Design Principles for VUI ( Voice User Interface !!! Hurray .....I learnt new term)

Listening UI needs variety rather repeated or uniformity

No Guidance unlike GUI

VUI has to be designed for Speaking rather guiding like GUI

DESIGN4INDIA - A NASSCOM Initiative - Part 1

Design Summit 2019: Embed 3.0 - Unleashing The Power Of Design Disruption

Happy to have been nominated to attend the Design4India, Design Summit 2019 in Conrad, Bangalore

Overall, it was different experience guys; My intention and expectation was to learn something on Design Principles on Software Development's design aspects and so on...Silly me :-(

Participation in "Design Summit 2019" was true an eye-opener which pushed me out of my comfort zone and limited knowledge of thinking 'Design' as pre-dominant to Software Development and Mobiles or Devices. Truth was that 'Design' is everywhere and Speakers who were part of the event gave the real perspective of Design in any field of origin be it Software Development, UI, Device Designs, Branding to Designs, How to scale up and above all 'Sustainable Design' for emerging trends

To be honest, I was stunned to see people from 'Peter England', 'Interior Design', 'Agro Products' companies who have turned up to the session for awesome take aways on 'Sustainable Design' and I was came out of my ignorance on design as a concept

AWS Community Day 2019 Chennai - Tweets

AWS Community Day 2019 Chennai - Tweets

Found these awesome tweets by like minded community for AWS Community Day Chennai 2019

AWS Community Day Chennai - 2019

AWS Community Day Chennai - 2019 

Finally, I was there in Chennai to be part of the AWS Community Day 2019 as a Speaker to share my insights and experience of using "AWS Secrets Manager" to the community

AWS User Group Chennai, was rocking and unbelievable the guys' co-ordination effort they have put up to make the event a success and yes undoubtedly, event in Chennai was great success. User Group members from Bangalore, Mumbai were as well there and was part of organizing and doing arrangements together as a team and there was no leader among them, literally. Awesome to witness the teamwork !!!

AWS Community Day 2019 Bangalore - Tweets

AWS Community Day 2019 Bangalore - Tweets 

Sharing couple of tweets on my session on "Best Practices on using AWS Secrets Manager" in AWS Community Day Bengaluru - 2019

AWS Community Day Bengaluru - 2019

AWS Community Day Bengaluru - 2019

It is time to celebrate and embrace the AWS Community Day in Bengaluru - 2019. Hold on, there is something else to be grateful and happy about it. Yes, am given an opportunity yet again to be part of the AWS Community event in 2019 as well

Overall great organizing of the event !!! Food was awesome !! Grateful to be part of the group to share insights on AWS Secrets Manager - Best Practices

About the Speaker in AWSUGBLR blog

About the Speaker in AWSUGBLR blog

As part of promitional events and announcing speakers, the user group and organizers of AWS Community and User group Bengaluru, is owns and hosts, background about all the Speakers of the event for 2019. Since I am one of the speakers in Bangalore 2019, here is the link narrating about me in https://www.awsugblr.in/

Visit the link at https://www.awsugblr.in/blog/2019-07-21-g-vijaya-nirmala/

How To add logs for AWS Codebuild project or service

How To add logs for AWS Codebuild project or service

Let us see how to see logs of AWS Native service of AWS Codebuild logs for debugging or analysis

1. We can use AWS Codebuild as an individual project or add as a stage in AWS Codepipeline pipeline too
2. Either ways, we would be creating a 'New Project' in AWS Codebuild service
3. While creating the 'New Project' in AWS Code build, there will be section or area called 'Logs' 
4. From Logs section, we have two options either 'Cloudwatch' or 'S3'. select either 'Cloudwatch Logs' or 'S3 Logs' to redirect or store the Codebuild logs, which can be used for later anlaysis or debugging

AWS Cloudwatch: If this option is selected to store logs, then we will be prompted for 

AWS S3 Logs: If this option is selected then we need to provide S3 Bucket name and prefix, if any. Along with this, log file encryption can as well be defined, if required

AWS Community Day Speaker 2019 - Chennai

AWS Community Day Speaker 2019 - Chennai

OMG !!! I have been announced as Speaker for AWS Community Day 2019 in Chennai. Great time guys. Happy and grateful for the support and opportunity !!

AWS Community Day Speaker 2019 - Bengaluru

AWS Community Day Speaker 2019 - Bengaluru

Time again folks to be part of AWS Community Day event here at Bengaluru in Conrad. Flyers are out and here is the preview of the same

HowTo - View the system logs of AWS EC2

HowTo - View the system logs of AWS EC2

Be it as Infrastructure as Code or from AWS Console or any, there are times when EC2 Instances failed to get launch or gets terminated, were in, the logs couldnt be accessed for analysis/debugging

What do we do? In spite of very much in visibility, I just realized that 'Get System Logs' is my rescue remedy

Let us see how I used it...

Click on the server which needs debugging as below:

See the logs and perform analysis from 'Get System Logs' screen/view

AWS Encrypt Root Volumes by Default

AWS Encrypt Root Volumes

We might have used and launched root volumes as part of EC2/EMR for umpteen times in our devops lifecycle. Until few weeks back, I have been encrypting in conventional way as below

1. Create basic EC2 with required root volume size
2. Created snapshot from the root volume, of the launched EC2
3. Copy snapshot with an encryption key
4. Use this newly copied snapshot, going forward
5. Or, create an AMI with encrypted root volume, by selecting the just encrypted & created snapshot and use them ahead

Hooooooooooo, lots of work isnt it? I agree :-). It is not about creating AMI or using the encrypted volumes, but it is about doing the clean up of snapshots that were created as above

IAM Access Keys

IAM Access Keys

Users in AWS are listed under AWS -> IAM -> Users

While creating Users, by default, a set of Access Keys are provisioned for the user just created. This can be viewed in from the Users -> Security Credentials tab

But the point to be noted here is that if we are rotating the keys as per the security compliance guidelines, we cannot generate more than two. On trying to create access keys, while two of them already exists we get the below error

If you observe, 'Create Access Keys' is disabled and along with that the maximum limit alert has also been raised

AWS Codebuild supports Bitbucket now !!!

AWS Codebuild supports Bitbucket now !!!

HowTo Check the logs for EC2 user_data

HowTo Check the logs for EC2 user_data

HowTo fix Terraform - IAM resource instance profile already exists error

Terraform - Apply raises IAM instance profile role already exists error

HowTo fix awscli error

HowTo fix awscli error

HowTo - Check the encryption status of additional EBS volumes

HowTo - Check the encryption status of additional EBS volumes

HowTo fix numpy error in Linux

HowTo fix numpy error in Linux

HowTo resolve setup issues - Jenkins Dynamic Slaves using Amazon EC2

HowTo resolve setup issues - Jenkins Dynamic Slaves

HowTo clear journalctl manually

HowTo clear journalctl manually