by truthbrother | Mar 21, 2018 | Amazon Web Services
Imagine an application which requires 24×7 availability with maximum 15 minutes of downtime allowed. How would you ensure the database hosted on your Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume is backed up to meet the required SLAs? An automated backup is the key process...
by truthbrother | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon Web Services
What is a bastion host, and do I need one? Bastion hosts are instances that sit within your public subnet and are typically accessed using SSH or RDP. Once remote connectivity has been established with the bastion host, it then acts as a ‘jump’ server, allowing you to...
by truthbrother | Mar 20, 2018 | JIRA, Atlassian
This page describes a possible way to use Nginx to proxy requests for JIRA running in a standard Tomcat container. You can find additional documentation that explains how to use Apache mod_proxy for the very same purpose. Configuring Tomcat In this example, we want a...
by truthbrother | Mar 20, 2018 | NGINX, Amazon Web Services
It’s time to Use NGINX as the Standard Proxy Server for Atlassian’s JIRA With NGINX now serving over 37% of the top 1000 websites it’s a great time to evaluate replacing Apache as the standard proxy server for Atlassian’s JIRA issue tracker. Two...
