Category Archives: DevOps

A Serving Flask on Docker

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Serving a flask application with gunicorn and nginx on docker… Packaging applications for reproducible results across environments has gotten a great boost with docker. Docker allows us to bundle the application with all its dependencies so that the resulting image can be run anywhere with a compatible docker runtime. The… Read more »

A Flask Full of Whiskey (WSGI)

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Serving up python web applications has never been easier with the suite of WSGI servers currently at our disposal. Both uWSGI and gunicorn behind Nginx are excellent performers for serving up a Flask app… Yup, what more could you ask for in life right? There are a number of varieties… Read more »

ELK Clusters on AWS with Ansible

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In the previous post we built a virtual ELK cluster with Vagrant and Ansible, where the individual VMs comprising the cluster were carved out of a single host. While that allowed for a self-contained development & testing of all the necessary artifacts – it is not a real world scenario…. Read more »

ELK Stack with Vagrant and Ansible

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It has been a while unfortunately since I sat down for some writing on this blog. But the writing bug is persistent – once hooked, you got to write. Serious writing requires original research, data collection/analysis etc… so can take a good bit of time depending on the topic. I had… Read more »

Virtual Clusters with Vagrant & Virtualbox

We take a break from the H-1B analysis and set the stage here for future posts that require us to work in environments with distributed compute & storage. A simple way to simulate them is with Virtualbox as the provider of VMs (‘Virtual Machines’) & Vagrant as a the front-end… Read more »