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DevOps on AWS: Everything You Need to Know

DevOps is renowned for fast methodologies, increased security (in the form of DevSecOps), as well as the quick and easy scalability of software development projects. These advantages make it essential for companies to embrace the DevOps culture as a guarantee of future success and growth. 

At the heart of this change, we have Amazon and its pioneering cloud offering, Amazon Web Services. Being the most popular in the market means Amazon has some of the best services, infrastructure, locations, and support in the market. The amount of trained professionals in AWS DevOps is also the highest among the big three; Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and AWS.

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From Architecture to an AWS Serverless POC: Architect’s Journey

Project Context

This year a number of financial services firms have had to comply with a new "401(k)-to-IRA Rollover Advice" fiduciary rule. This rule mandates that wealth managers and broker-dealers must demonstrate "investor's best interest" intent when presenting investment opportunities to their clients.

Many financial services firms with legacy and 3rd party SaaS application landscape face a common challenge of data lineage and data consistency throughout the client onboarding user journey. Throughout this journey, the client’s investment profile is used to put together a proposed investment portfolio and open an investment account. Client On-boarding Business Process

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AWS DevOps Services: A Faster, Seamless Route to AWS DevOps Cloud

Cloud computing and corresponding solutions have taken the corporate sector by storm. More and more organizations are taking the plunge and adopting cloud solutions to regulate business processes and accelerate performance. A typical path towards the adoption process has been migrating to a DevOps environment.

It is expected that by 2021 overall spending on cloud services will cross the mark of $530 billion. Etching an 80% growth, cloud-native DevOps is more likely to be the future of IT companies. Companies that have already made a move have the upper hand over the others who are yet to transform their business operations.

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Docker How-to: Custom Authentication to A Private Docker Registry With NGINX, Lua, and AWS ECR

Background

Our engineering team developed a Docker Container for our application, Kloudless Enterprise, to simplify cluster using industry standard tools like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

However, our customers found downloading the container from our web portal was somewhat inconvenient. Users previously had to download the archived image and manually load it into their Docker daemon to use it. There also wasn’t a way to check which images were available without visiting the portal through a browser. To improve the experience, we decided to provide a private Docker Registry that would allow our users to not only pull images, but also query tags and take advantage of other useful features that the Docker Registry provides.