Introduction OpenDaylight provides a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller that allows network engineers to programmatically direct network services via a Representational state transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API). When I...
Part Two of this HOWTO demonstrates how to secure your S3 hosted website with HTTPS. If you haven't completed part one yet, be sure to click here. Once you complete this HOWTO, you will have a secure website, that Google approves, as seen in the...
This HOWTO demonstrates how to secure your Simple Storage Service (S3) hosted website via Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). While the S3 Representational State Transfer (REST) enpoint supports native HTTPS, an S3 bucket configured to...
In this HOWTO, I will demonstrate how to easily integrate the Google reCAPTCHA service into a Flask web application using Flask-WTF. The following cartoon depicts the end result. A Flask application server provides a simple (beautified) survey to...
In this HOWTO, we expand upon the simple Elasticsearch proxy we deployed in our first Lambda tutorial. In that tutorial, we showed you how to create a proxy in front of the AWS Elasticsearch service using a Lambda function and an API Gateway. We...
Introduction Last month, I followed the example of Full Stack Python and migrated this blog from Wordpress to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3). The S3 hosting approach gives me the following features: Global caching via...
All production databases require backups. The AWS Elasticsearch documentation states: Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) takes daily automated snapshots of the primary index shards in an Amazon ES domain... However, you must contact the AWS...
The RabbitMQ website provides instructions on how to install the service on CentOS and Ubuntu Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. While the Amazon Linux distro uses CentOS as a base, it is different enough to make installing RabbitMQ tricky...
The Python Elasticsearch Domain Specific Language (DSL) lets you create models via Python objects. Take a look at the model Elastic creates in their persistence example. #!/usr/bin/env python # persist.py from datetime import datetime from...
Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Lambda provides a serverless architecture framework for your web applications. You deploy your application to Lambda, attach an API Gateway and then call your new service from anywhere on the web. Amazon takes care of...