Time to improve HOPE and keep moving forward in GOD

Yaa, I believe this is the time to make my things settle down. Great war of depression, hopelessness and all other feelings that made me pain are vanishing slowly. This 3 months journey had given me a lot in. As someone said, problems(no failures) are stepping stones to success, the above problems given me an opportunity to look inside of me sincerely. We all have inner fears, inner thoughts and inner consciousness. One day or the other we have to face them. I believe, I have faced it to considerable amount till now.
During the time of facing my inner fears, I have great support from friends, family members, elders, our church Rev.fathers and philosophers and books. I strongly believe this is the time that I sincerely moved towards God. Great reading of books, specially about and towards God, towards inner strength and personality development and financial discipline. Great discussions with church fathers about various topics specially, soul clean, inner strength and faith on GOD. Great reunion with old buddies, great laughs and long talks and so on. I'm still in the process of regaining inner strength but I strongly believe , the growth of fruit is already originated.

We always face tuff period once in a while during various times . At that same time, we need to have inner courage, strong conviction to wait and great patience to let the storm cross by. We have to move out and speak, we have to move on and try something else. try something else. We should not let our brain to think much in to pool of unnecessary thoughts which interrupts our progression. During my tuff period I had great battle of thoughts all day. But firm belief on God,family and friends made me to come out of the situation and I moved on. Now I need to move more towards GOD. He rises us and makes our lives more beautiful.

Time of self realization and exploration

I have been exploring my inner self from quite good time (Last 2-3 months). It's completely new journey altogether. A jounery of extreme difficulties that I have never experienced. It is the jounrey of cutting the moving rope and tying with fresh and new rope which is much modified, compared to the past. My woke ups changed. Hobbies changed. Dreams changed, life style changed and totally the way I'm looking at the things changed. Initially, I was wounded by surroundings. I thought I can take some deep breathes, guided confidence and move on. But, from there on words the petals of new explorations about life, aspirations, skills, thinking and many are opened. I experienced deep inner thinking, deep inner thought fighting, deep mental observation and so on.

It was all started with the way surroundings reacted with me in the month of April. Things suddenly started moving in almost reverse direction on my path. I have to look deep in to the wound. I have to deeply think about the on going things. I have to deeply keep my self active about the surroundings. In the process, I started realizing my own self. My confidence. My exact state in the surroundings. My thoguht process towards day to day things . I have met the people I never thought of. I have experienced the thought process I never thought of. I experienced the fears I never thought of. On the positive side, I started moving towards Almighty god Jesus Christ. I started reading Holy Bible. I started getting solutions to the problems that we generally think, we don't have an answer. I started looking real things. I started spending time with mom. I started getting counseled by Rev.Fathers, people of personality development, people of good wisdom. And, I started reading great books with great concentration and with great zeal to learn. I started conquering inner fears, inner weaknesses. Above all it's God's call and intention to change the path and to keep us in ACTUAL direction that he wanted to.

Devops series-article-02-Change is the basic nature of Universe. What makes Devops so special?

Yes. Change is the basic nature of universe. As we are, from infant to adult and old... . Universe changes continuously to never ending time. Our systems, practices, knowledge changes from time to time. If you can see, much things are automated on mobile from last 17-20 years.
        Around year 2000, a mobile phone can be used for very regular purposes. But, today, using the same mobile phone we can hand the universe. Think ? . How many things included in to it automatically for many of day to day activities. In the same way, our software cycles, systems and practices automated time to time.
       The age old story is, many people used to work for each activity in an environment. One needs to depend on other. For example, there should be at least one resource in the team to place new build in the test environment. There is another resource who can run basic test scripts on the build. So on... . A software life cycle includes many phases, coding , building, testing, performance analyzing, running, so on. "What if we automate most of the phases activities using tools available ?". There comes the Devops. It is all about integrating available tools either open source or commercial to automate the build activities that improves reliability, efficiency and also saves lot of time and money to the organization.
       Devops automates an organization's purpose using its tool set that makes so many things move on their own. It doesn't mean that there is no human intervention but it does mean that "a message carrying Dove once.........., is replaced by the mobile signal that carries information today. YES. "Change is the basic nature of Universe" .

                                                                                                               Signing off,
                                                                                                               Raju Shikha,

Devops series-article-01-Sample devops flow that demonstrates CI/CD

Hi Folks,

In this article, I would like to present a simple Devops flow . Basically, Devops works on two concepts, Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment. In a nutshell, Continuous integration is integrating different tools and services in the in the environment on the fly and deployment  refers to building, checking, deploying and running the build in the environment.

Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment Flow:

1.       Let’s start from the scratch. Let’s have dvcs(distributed version control system) where different teams commits the code check in.  Once the code is checked in, A Jenkins job starts and clone the code

2.       Once the code is cloned, we need to build it using a build tool. Popular and legacy build tools are ANT and Maven. For suppose, using ANT, we need to generate build file(build.xml) that generates archive files like .war file. To achieve this task Continuous integration server(e.g: Jenkins ) has the plugin, ANT

3.       Now, after the war file is ready, Continuous integration server(e.g: Jenkins ) integrates profiling tool like SonarQube and starts the profiling job. Profiling checks for code leakages, best practices etc.

4.       After profiling, Continuous integration server(e.g: Jenkins )  start the job for  environment provisioning . To achieve this, we need to add configuration management and environment provisioning tools(AWS Cloud, Chef server, Docker) plugins in Continuous integration server(e.g: Jenkins )  .

5.       Now, Continuous integration server (e.g: Jenkins ) starts the job for environment provisioning. Minimum steps to achieve at this stage are Spin up virtual machines, Install OS level services, Install application level services, Install web/application server

6.       Once the environment is ready,  Continuous deployment server(e.g: Jenkins) starts the job that installs application on web/application server which demonstrates application fully up and running on given environment. 

 

Above diagram demonstrates a sample CI/CD flow. Note that I have not added the add-on services like Continuous monitoring(e.g: Nagios), email notification service at different levels.  As a series of articles I will keep on improving above flow and  include other services.

Like any other species

I strongly believe that this existing human systems are the result of continuous evolution of human thoughts . Like any other species, humans born with flesh and blood, lead their natural life with respect to nature, may try to change nature towards his intelligence and finally leave it forever and ever.
               Sometimes I introspect my self for the reason being, why am I more interested towards the formation and continuation of human systems which is an integral part of society. I believe it may because I read some philosophy, some life experiences, may be I have some cowardliness. May be...!!!
               Coming to the discussion, I believe there is no big reason or special occasion that nature creates for the birth of any human being. There is no pre compiled life written programming for the path of his life on the earth. Of course, on the other hand, there may be scientific genetic reasons for him/her to think towards or move towards particular life. Because I think, human brain which is integral part of genes may think towards some specific life because of its very formation. This may apply to all other species.
               Therefore, in my view, the resting bones in tombs or the ashes that mingled into air are lived like any other species on the earth, lead the life according to their heart and brain and left this active world for ever and ever, like any other species. We are doing the some like any other species.