Tag Archives: public cloud

07 Jul

How to display HTML page using only AWS API Gateway

API Gateway is a powerful tool you can use to create a frontend for your application hosted on AWS. It let developers create, maintain, secure and monitor API on a large scale. This API is a gateway to access your data, functions, logic or any web application hosted on AWS. Logic is based on RESTful API framework used in an example by web servers and can be used to eliminate physical or virtual servers from infrastructure. API Gateway is a tool for a dynamic and flexible approach for data transformation. Let me show you how to display HTML page using only AWS API Gateway.

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04 Jul

AWS Lambda guide part III – Adding S3 trigger in Lambda function

AWS Lambda Tutorial, I will show you how to create or import your Python application to Lambda, use S3 bucket, add S3 trigger for Lambda and more!

This is third part of the tutorial of AWS Lambda. In previous chapters I presented my small Python app I created for signing certificate requests and imported it to AWS Lambda service (check AWS Lambda guide part I – Import your Python application to Lambda). Then I modified the code so instead of using reference to static local files we can read and write to S3 bucket (check AWS Lambda guide part II – Access to S3 service from Lambda function). Now let’s move forward and add S3 trigger in Lambda function.

We can always execute Lambda function manually either from web panel or using CLI. We can also execute it from our other application if required. But microservices are often triggered by events. In this article I will show you how to automatically sign certificate using my Lambda function when request file is uploaded to S3 bucket. Let me show you how to program S3 trigger in Lambda.

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26 May

Why having cloud load-balancer for on-premises services is not a good idea?

Cloud load-balancer for on-premise services is not a good idea

We were thinking about redundancy options for CCIE.PL today. There are few restrictions we have there, both came either from policy or our personal thoughts about several aspects of paid services and sharing admin access. But simply we are thinking how to automate failover in case our primary server or database have problems. Easiest solution would be to use Cloudflare free tier service but let’s say we don’t want to do this now. So we were looking on the other options and there was an idea that maybe we can use cloud load-balancer for on-premise services. First thought – it’s brilliant. On second thought – definitely that idea was wrong. Let me show you why.

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