Sathyajith Bhat on AWS & DevOps

Here’s how a LAN cable swap broke my Internet connection.

Tired of running out of space on your Arch install?

Tired of wrangling JSON blobs representing AWS resources?

Looking to find an alternative to Google Maps Timeline?

I talk about how we at The Trade Desk serve our users with the AWS Global Accelerator.

This talk looks at the options available and a general guide on what service to pick when running containers on AWS.

I dig into AWS CLI a little bit to explain how we can use JMESPath expressions to apply client-side and server-side filtering and bulk tag instances of an Auto Scaling Group.

I’ve been using hostname spoofing with curl for a while and I find out why hostname spoofing doesn’t work with TLS.

A brief summary about Networking in the cloud on AWS/GCP that covers VPC, subnets, routing, ingress and engress packet flows.

Here’s how you can get the goodness of fuzzy search in your PowerShell terminal with fzf.

Presented at AWS Community Day 2022 - I talk about using Route 53 and enabling automated multi-region failover and failback using Route 53.

Here’s how you can self-host FreshRSS on Fly.io in under 10 minutes

I had some fun playing with Route 53’s routing policies.

I picked up a task to migrate our base image from Amazon Linux to Amazon Linux 2.

I brief on what infrastructure as code (IaC) is, the options available for IaC and then do a deep dive into the AWS CDK.

I attempt to complete the DigitalOcean Kubernetes Challenge and deploy a GitOps CI/CD solution using Tekton and Argo CD

The second edition of my book - Practical Docker with Python is now available.

This talk looks at why you should be using AWS Fargate for one-off tasks.

The VPC Reachability Analyzer tool is a network diagnostic tool from AWS.

Removing Subnet delegations for an Azure VNET that might block deployments.

The CDK Day is here!

This post explains Terraform’s exit codes in detail and how you can use them to skip a terraform apply when no changes are needed.

November end/December is a fairly exciting time for a lot of AWS enthusiasts - it’s time for re:Invent, AWSs’ annual event which brings in tens of thousands of AWS users, enthusiasts, power users, customers and more.

I started blogging with WordPress about 13 years ago.

I had the privilege of being able to talk about what you can do to improve your Azure account security and improve the security posture of your workloads running on Azure as part of Microsoft For Startups’ Highway to a 100 Unicorns - Scale Up Thursdays we…

This talk looks at some of the guidelines to be followed when improving the security of your workloads.

Folding@Home(aka FAH) is a distributed computing project.

This talk looks at why you should be using AWS Fargate for one-off tasks.

I’ve always dreamed of being at reInvent and this year, not only do I get to be at re:Invent, I also get a chance to lead a Dev Chat.

So yeah that actually happened!

The talk looks at threat vectors to containers and how they can be mitigated.

I recently published couple of articles elsewhere: How to Increase Container Security and Ward Off Threats - Adobe Tech Blog 5 OpenSource tools for container security - OpenSource.com Scanning Docker Images for Vulnerabilities with Aqua Microscanner - pre…

E3 has come and gone by and most of the year’s press conferences were boring (what was EA even smoking?).

Containers are slowly becoming the standardized units of deployment.

Long time, no write!

VR and me go like chalk and cheese - ever since a kid, I’ve had motion sickness which limited me from playing most FPS games and my last attempt at VR(at IGX 2016) was a disaster - I barely could withstand 30 seconds of VR.

A 5-minute speedrun on how to create a Kubernetes cluster using KOPS.

In Chef parlance, databags are global variables saved in JSON format and are stored and accessible on the Chef server.

Among the services I look after, the biggest and high-profile - is the user facing website.

I had an instance today where a local VM(which is provisioned by Xenserver) was running low on disk space and wanted to increase the disk space allocated to it.

End of the year is here and while other services are busy sending Year in 2016 report, there sparked a mini gaming report in our telegram group and I decided to compile my gaming in 2016 report.

Last night as I was about to head to sleep, Sensu started emailing me about disk space warnings on one of the backend servers.

I’ve been a long time KDE user, loved the KDE 4.0 SC when it first arrived and probably one of the most vocal supporters for it when people were hating it.

I like chef-zero a lot.

I have begun to use Terminator quite a lot.

Since my new job involves lot more of Linux, shell scripting bash and automation, I’ve been trying to brush up my Linux skills.

Transistor is the second game made by Supergiant Games following up on their previous game, Bastion.

Gog.com(formerly Good Old Games) is part of CD Projekt Group - the publishers of the fantastic Witcher series of games.

Few months ago for our second wedding Anniversary, after much discussions on what to get for each other - we decided to get a PlayStation 4.

For every Barcamp event that comes and goes by, I try to think of what new thing I can do to make it a bit better.