Preparation Guide for Puppet 206 Certification Exam

By Dustin Ward

One of the notable technological advancements in recent times, DevOps, has completely transformed the way of IT operations. DevOps experts are capable of finding high-paying jobs in various notable enterprises all over the world. Therefore, the demand for certifications in popular DevOps tools such as Puppet is increasing considerably. If you are searching for ideal…

Implementing Amazon Inspector in Automated AMI Pipelines

By Dustin Ward

This is part two of a two part series on Amazon Inspector. This article is about implementing Amazon Inspector in automated AMI pipelines. The first article is an Introduction to Amazon Inspector.Automated security scanning is an essential part of DevSecOps, however setting the scanning up can be cumbersome. This quickstart incorporates Amazon Inspector and helps…

Deploy, track, and roll back RDS database code changes using open source tools Liquibase and Jenkins

By Dustin Ward

Customers across industries and verticals deal with relational database code deployment. In most cases, developers rely on database administrators (DBAs) to perform the database code deployment. This works well when the number of databases and the amount of database code changes are low. As organizations scale, however, they deal with different database engines—including Oracle, SQL…

Introduction to Amazon EFS Infrequent Access

By Dustin Ward

This short demo shows you how to easily get started with the Amazon Elastic File System Infrequent Access (EFS IA) storage class and optimizing storage cost with a EFS Lifecycle Management policy. Amazon EFS Infrequent Access provides price and performance for files not accessed everyday and automatically moves your files to the lower cost EFS…

Getting Started with Ultra-Low Latency Using AWS Elemental Live – Part 2

By Dustin Ward

The AWS Elemental Live encoder version 2.17.3 now supports chunk delivery to AWS Elemental MediaStore enabling a stable user experience of 3-4 seconds glass-to-glass latency using standard HLS/DASH packaged content and delivered through traditional CDNs. This blog post, the final of a two-part series, provides a step-by-step guide to building an ultra-low latency (ULL) workflow…