RES701 Research Method

  • Project Report: Finishing up

    June 7, 2020 by

    One week before the submission, the learning sections has mostly been completed. It contains personla learnings which includes the acquired knowledge through the research, tasks and working with the IT team. Though it is out of the topic of the project report, the knowledge learned on various things that the how the IT team work… Read more

  • Project Report: Analysis and Learnings

    May 29, 2020 by

    With the progress so far, the placement report section is completed. This includes the analysis on isolation methods. Without proper testing, the approach provided in the report is a possible method that might be implemented to complete the emergency switch recovery. Learnings is the next section I want to cover in the report. There are… Read more

  • Report Progress: Placement Report

    May 22, 2020 by

    Dwelving into the placement project, I needed to recall all details on the work placement task from the top of my head. It was tough as I do not have the permission to access the project I have done in NPIL due to the current situation. However, my previous blogs entry helped a lot by… Read more

  • Report Progress: Introduction

    May 15, 2020 by

    The report writing had been started. I mostly focus on the introduction, background and placement plan. Though it might be considered the less important part, I put more time in these section to provide the details about my work placement and in what state it is now. The introduction basically informs a quick summary of… Read more

  • Scale and Load Balance Your Architecture

    May 12, 2020 by

    Lab Goal In this lab, we aim to create an infrastructure integrated with auto scaling and load balancing. We will try to deploy an application load balancer in this scheme. We start with an infrastructure shown in figure 1 and aim to create the infrastructure pictured in figure 2. Create an AMI for Auto Scaling… Read more

  • Install and Configure CloudWatch Logs Agent on an EC2 Instance

    May 12, 2020 by

    Create Policy and Role Going to IAM, we will try to create a role which allows an EC2 to write and list CloudWatch Logs. Go to IAM and select Policies. Create a new Policy with these JSON attached. { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “logs:CreateLogGroup”, “logs:CreateLogStream”, “logs:PutLogEvents”, “logs:DescribeLogStreams” ], “Resource”: [… Read more

  • Start Report Writing and Research

    May 8, 2020 by

    After getting the updates from my supervisor, I started to write the report. Following the guidance from some examples which Neil gave me and the templates from Lars, it gave a certain flow to the report. So far I have reached through introduction until placement plan. It took quite a while to write this as… Read more

  • Amazon RDS

    May 5, 2020 by

    Lab Goal In this lab, we will launch Amazon RDS with high availability and configure it for a web server to access. In addition to that, we will test a web application to interact with the database. This would be the network scenario look like. The setup has been initially created except all the configurations… Read more

  • Amazon Elastic Block Storage

    May 3, 2020 by

    Lab Goal For this lab, we will dwelve into Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS). Our goal is to attach an Amazon EBS to an EC2 instance and creating a snapshot of it which will be stored in S3 bucket. In addition to that, we will also try to attach an Amazon EBS created from a… Read more

  • Change to In-depth Research Approach

    May 1, 2020 by

    Current Situation Starting from 23rd March, due to the unforeseen circumstances occuring in New Zealand, my work placement was placed on halt for the moment. This is from the consideration from my supervisor that the tasks for me is more effective to be done on-site. On the time of this post writing, New Zealand is… Read more

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