Recently there was a query in AWS Community Builder Slack channel regarding a Lambda function script to take backup of /var/www/html and store it in S3 bucket on a daily basis. We don’t need a Lambda function for this as this can easily be done by using SSM Automation along…

In https://medium.com/aws-in-plain-english/website-defacement-monitoring-using-amazon-cloudwatch-synthetics-db85ef9c2f27, we learned how to use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics for Website Defacement Monitoring. In this post, we’ll see how we can setup a GitLab deployment pipeline for continuous Website Defacement Monitoring Pre-requisites: 1- Create a CloudFront distribution with S3 as origin. 2- Setup GitLab OIDC Connector for AWS. You…

In this post, we’ll discuss how we can control GitLab Parent-Child Pipeline execution. GitLab Parent-Child pipeline is useful for monorepo deployments and you may refer to https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/02/22/parent-child-vs-multi-project-pipelines/ for more details. Our Gitlab repo structure looks like this. We don’t have any code, just a bunch of .gitlab.ci.yml files. We have…

While creating a GitLab pipeline for our application, we encountered a couple of errors: Error 1: Reason: In package.json, there were few commands which were using source command. For example: "build": "source scripts/script.sh; GENERATE_SOURCEMAP=false react-scripts build", Since GitLab runner was using /bin/sh shell and source command was not available there…

Reference: https://socket.io/docs/v4/using-multiple-nodes Why AWS NLB stickiness is not always sticky | Cloudar 100% focused on AWS solutions. 100% customer-obsessed. That's Cloudar in a nutshell. We have been combining reselling…cloudar.be Recently we encountered an intriguing scenario with NLB Session Stickiness. Our application was using socket.io’s HTTP long polling which required a sticky session to be enabled. Our traffic flow was like this:

In this post, we’ll see how we can setup Centralized Egress for multiple environments running in different VPC network. Generally, we have multiple environments(Dev/UAT/Staging etc.) running in different VPCs with each having their own NAT Gateways/VPC Endpoints/Network Firewall etc. …

In this post, we’ll see how we can use AWS Workspace to access internal resources like EC2 or RDS instances. Step 1: We need to create a directory before we setup AWS Workspace. We can create a Simple AD and as per https://aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/other-directories-pricing/, you may use it for free.

In this post, we’ll see how we can configure Route53 Resolver Inbound And Outbound Endpoints. While Inbound endpoint allows DNS queries to your VPC from your on-premises network or another VPC, Outbound endpoint allows DNS queries from your VPC to your on-premises network or another VPC. You may refer to…

Recently we were upgrading one of our EKS cluster and found out that none of the current team members have permission to connect to this Cluster. Here are the steps we followed to fix the issue. Step 1: From EKS console, we figured out that this cluster was created on…