Tag: containers

These shipping containers in Delhi are being used for something unusually awesome

While going from Mehrauli towards Badarpur, take a left after crossing the scenic site of Tughlaqabad fort ruins. You instantly notice a huge hill on the right side of the road. Once it is close, you realize that the hill is actually made from garbage dump — it is Okhla landfill site...

Resilient Containers for Humans: ECS Workloads with AWS Resilience Hub

As Werner Vogels, CTO of AWS, famously said: “Everything fails, all the time.” This holds true for any type of system, including those hosted on the cloud. As more companies move their workloads to AWS, ensuring high availability and resiliency becomes more important than ever....

When Is Serverless More Expensive Than Containers?

I talk to a lot of people about serverless. Shocking, I know. When discussing the viability of serverless for production applications, I’m often hit with the same two arguments: “ Cold starts are so bad we can’t use serverless” and “aren’t you worried a...

Serverless vs Containers: Which is Right for Your Business?

Are you attempting to determine the ideal method for deploying your apps in the cloud? The two most common solutions are Serverless vs Containers. But deciding which one to use might be difficult. Which one is superior? Are Serverless more economical? Which one is simpler to manage? In this ...

MySQL Replication Using Docker Containers

Replication enables data from one MySQL database server (known as a source) to be copied to one or more MySQL database servers (known as replicas) (MySQL). The following steps are modified from the original guide at GitHub so that they could be run in PowerShell (Windows environment). T...

Using AWS single sign-on within your Docker containers

If you deploy applications to Amazon AWS EC2 instances, you probably make a lot of use of Amazon-specific features. In my case, I happen to use Amazon’s Systems Manager to store configuration parameters for my applications. When developing code locally I would also like to be able to run th...

Selenium script execution in AWS EC2 instance using selenium grid and docker containers

 In this use case, we will see how to execute the selenium script execution inside AWS EC2 instances using Selenium grid and docker image.  EC2 instance creation with preinstalled docker amazon Linux AMI  Go to AWS Management console, In AMI search for an ‘docker&rsquo...