Management of Thousands of Virtual Linux Servers (VMs)
Managing thousands of virtual Linux servers (VMs) is a complex task that requires robust automation and monitoring tools. Effective management ensures optimal performance, security, and scalability across the infrastructure. By employing orchestration tools and maintaining consistent configurations, administrators can efficiently handle updates, patching, and resource allocation. This large-scale management is essential for supporting enterprise applications, ensuring high availability, and meeting the demands of dynamic business environments.
Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS/Fedora are popular Linux distributions, each offering unique benefits. Debian and Ubuntu are known for their stability, extensive repositories, and community support, making them ideal for a wide range of applications. RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS, and Fedora are preferred in enterprise environments for their robust security features, commercial support, and regular updates. Mastery of these distributions ensures flexibility and compatibility across various IT environments, facilitating the deployment and management of diverse workloads.
Linux Systems Automation, Installation and Configuration
Automation of Linux systems, including installation and configuration, enhances efficiency, consistency, and scalability. Tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef automate repetitive tasks, reducing human error and ensuring uniform environments. Automated installation processes streamline the deployment of new servers, while configuration management tools maintain desired states across the infrastructure. This automation is crucial for managing large-scale environments, enabling rapid provisioning, and ensuring compliance with organisational standards.
Ansible, Puppet, Chef, GitHub, SVN, Jenkins, TeamCity, Docker, Bitbucket, Maven, Gerrit, Node.js, React.js
DevOps tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef facilitate infrastructure automation and configuration management. GitHub, SVN, Bitbucket, and Gerrit offer robust version control for code collaboration. Jenkins and TeamCity streamline continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Docker simplifies containerisation, ensuring consistent environments across development and production. Maven automates project builds, while Node.js and React.js provide powerful frameworks for building scalable web applications. Mastery of these tools enhances development efficiency, promotes best practices, and supports agile methodologies.
Scripting – Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, PowerShell, Go
Scripting languages like Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, PowerShell, and Go are essential for automating tasks, managing configurations, and developing applications. Bash is ideal for Unix/Linux command-line automation. Perl and Ruby offer powerful text processing and system administration capabilities. Python is renowned for its readability and versatility in automation, data analysis, and web development. Java is a robust, object-oriented language used for complex applications. PowerShell is a powerful scripting language for Windows environments. Go provides efficient concurrency and performance, ideal for modern applications. Proficiency in these languages enhances operational efficiency and streamlines development workflows.
AWS (Amazon Web Services): EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ECS, SES, Glacier, CloudFront, CloudFormation, EBS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a comprehensive suite of cloud services, including EC2 for scalable computing, S3 for object storage, RDS for managed databases, and VPC for isolated networks. ECS facilitates container orchestration, SES handles email sending, and Glacier provides long-term storage. CloudFront accelerates content delivery, while CloudFormation automates infrastructure provisioning. EBS offers block storage for persistent data. Mastery of these services enables organisations to build, deploy, and scale applications efficiently, leveraging the cloud's flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
OpenShift, Docker, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Cobbler, Kickstart, Lambda
OpenShift and Docker are key technologies for container orchestration and deployment, ensuring consistent environments and scalability. VirtualBox and Vagrant facilitate the creation and management of virtual machines for development and testing. Cobbler and Kickstart automate Linux system provisioning, streamlining deployments. AWS Lambda offers serverless computing, enabling the execution of code without managing servers. These tools enhance development agility, simplify infrastructure management, and support modern application architectures, driving operational efficiency and innovation.
High-Traffic, High-Security Web Applications
Building and maintaining high-traffic, high-security web applications require robust architecture, optimised performance, and stringent security measures. Techniques such as load balancing, caching, and content delivery networks (CDNs) ensure fast response times and scalability. Implementing best practices in security, including encryption, authentication, and regular vulnerability assessments, protects sensitive data and prevents breaches. These applications must be designed to handle large user volumes and comply with industry standards, ensuring reliable and secure user experiences.
Clustering, Cloud Technologies, Implementations, and Virtualisation
Clustering and virtualisation technologies enhance the performance, reliability, and scalability of IT infrastructures. Clustering enables the distribution of workloads across multiple servers, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. Cloud technologies, including AWS, GCP, and Azure, provide scalable and flexible resources, supporting dynamic business needs. Virtualisation optimises resource utilisation and simplifies management. Implementing these technologies requires careful planning, robust architecture, and ongoing monitoring to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness, supporting modern enterprise demands.
APM, CDN, Infrastructure Tools – PagerDuty, New Relic, Datadog, Fastly, Discovery, AppDynamics
Application Performance Management (APM) tools like New Relic, Datadog, and AppDynamics provide insights into application performance, enabling proactive issue resolution and optimisation. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) like Fastly accelerate content delivery, improving user experiences. Infrastructure tools like PagerDuty facilitate incident management and response, ensuring system reliability. Discovery tools help map and manage IT assets. Mastery of these tools enhances monitoring, improves performance, and ensures operational continuity, supporting robust and resilient IT environments.
SERVERS MANAGEMENT Servers are the major part of any inftrastructure and DevopsHub manages customers' infrastructure in a number of companies. Moreover, we provide our servers in highly secure datacentres all over the UK and worldwide. DISASTER RECOVERY IT systems are usually highly reliable, however sometimes the issues might arise. Our task is to help your business running smoothly and we make precautions before difficult moments had happened with our Backup and Disaster Recovery. HOSTED DESKTOP (HVD) A hosted virtual desktop (HVD) is a user interface that connects to applications and data that are stored on a cloud provider's servers rather than on the user's computer or the corporate network. An HVD is sometimes referred to as a cloud-hosted virtual desktop.VOIP VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. Sometimes it's referred to as Voice over Networks or (VoN), Voice over Broadband (VoB) and sometimes Internet Telephony. VoIP allows to make free, or very low cost, telephone calls over the Internet. STORAGE, BACKUP IT systems are usually highly reliable, however sometimes the issues might arise. Our task is to help your business running smoothly and we make precautions before difficult moments had happened with our Backup and Storage. COMPLETE CLOUD SERVICE Our cloud solutions includes design, automation, architecture, developing and migration of infrastructure to the new platform on AWS, GCP, Azure, Openstack, VMWare.