GUACAMOLE: Open Source Web Based Remote Desktop Gateway

Recently, I was searching for remote desktop software using which I can do the remote or ssh login through browser. There are so many software like thinVNC, Thinfinity, TightVNC which helps us to do remote desktop. These software uses HTML5, VNC variants like thinVNC, thickVNC, UltraVNC. One problem...

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Start-Stop virtual machines parallelly present in cloud service (Azure IAAS)

Time and cost are the two crucial factors in cloud environment, people are paying for what they are using. I have setup my environment in Azure using Infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS). Environment consists of 20+ virtual machines, virtual networks. I have wrote powershell scripts which provision environment for me. While working on cloud environment with high configuration...

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Want to Ping Azure VM?

Whenever there is issues with any application or machines, the first thing we do is PING. I mean ping to that machine using IP address or hostname (if name resolution setup in the environment). In Azure cloud we are not able to ping the virtual machines using IP address from outside environment. Ping uses ICMP protocol to communicate with each other. In Azure ICMP protocol is turned off. Azure firewall...

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Install NGINX as windows service using nssm

nginx [engine x] is popular HTTP and reverse proxy server with lot of features. nginx provides executable files for windows environment. We just need to download and unzip setup file to get started.  The official document says we cannot run nginx as windows service.  We can use nssm (non...

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SERF: In a Nutshell

What is SERF SERF is open source decentralized, fault-tolerant and highly available solution by Hashicorp used for cluster membership management, failure detection and orchestration. Serf relies on an efficient and lightweight gossip protocol to communicate with nodes. The Serf agents periodically exchange messages with each other in much the same way that a zombie apocalypse would occur:...

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Merge GIT Branches Using JENKINS

Continuous Integration and deployment or delivery (CI/CD) pipeline consists of many machines or environments. It has development, production, integration, testing and staging machines. Each machine has separate branch in GIT to store the source code. In GIT, Development branch has all code from...

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Cutting Down The Cost Of Azure VMs

In cloud infrastructure, We have lot of machines present other than production servers. This includes machines used for development and testing purposes. Some of them also used for temporary purposes like doing demos to client, doing R&D on cloud infrastructure, etc. There are some machines present which are used for implementing continuous integration and deployment pipelines(Jenkins or Travis...

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Backup and Restore JENKINS Jobs

In an organization Jenkins plays important role achieving continuous integration and deployment/delivery a.k.a CI/CD pipeline. There are other tools present for achieving CI/CD like Travis, Jetbrains, Bamboo, etc. I am using Jenkins because it is popular in open source community. While automating...

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PASH - An Open Source Implementation of Windows PowerShell

Pash is an open source implementation of Powershell which can be used on linux, mac or windows mobiles. The main goal of implementing the Pash is to provide a rich shell environment for other operating systems as well as to provide a hostable scripting engine for rich applications. The script should...

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Docker on Windows

      Day by day, Docker becoming very famous as it changes the process of building, deployment, shipping of applications with the help of operating system level virtualization technology called containers.  Docker, What it is?        Docker is an...

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