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Amazon AppStream 2.0: Bringing Your Computer Lab to Your Students

July, 2020 One of the challenges that caught a lot of institutions off guard was finding a solution for delivering software to students and faculty that is normally only available in a computer lab.

Cloud Migration Strategy: Trust You Are Ready to Perform a Migration and Then Do It!

May, 2020 Part 3: One thing to understand about migration plans is that they are not cookie-cutter plans. If you have read Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series, then you have understood and conquered the “paralysis by analysis” phase, and the “refining your plan “ phase.

Cloud Migration Strategy: How to Know What You Don't Know

April, 2020 Part 2 of the Cloud Migration Strategy. Proper planning and preparation are two important factors in a successful migration into the Cloud. But the limiting factor for planning a tends to be not knowing *where* to start your cloud journey once you accept the fact that you *should* start the journey.

Cloud Migration Strategy: The Timing is Always Right

March, 2020 Part 1 of the Cloud Migration Strategy. The decision making around how to move forward and enhance your current offerings or even just get started in the Cloud keeps getting more challenging. When should you step back and re-evaluate your efforts or think about developing a cloud strategy for the first time?

ECS Cluster Scaling in EC2 (Part 2)

April, 2019 This is the second entry of the ECS Scaling blog that covers how to properly scale the EC2 cluster of instances that are running your ECS Tasks. The ability to run your own cluster of EC2 instances with ECS is a viable solution.

November 02, 2018

Apereo CAS High-Availability with Hazelcast and Kubernetes

November, 2018 - When it comes to deploying a highly available CAS server, one of the chief concerns is to choose a technology that is capable of sharing CAS-generated tickets across multiple server nodes. The task of managing and administering CAS tickets is handled today by a Ticket Registry component that is backed by a variety of technologies able to persist, manage, and distribute ticket objects across the entire CAS cluster. Perhaps the most popular and better-adopted option in this area is a ticket registry solution backed by Hazelcast.

August 14, 2018

Continuous Delivery of Grouper using Jenkins and Docker

August, 2018 - Unicon recently completed a project for the Colorado School of Mines to setup a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline that can be used as a template for their work modernizing their application deployment processes going forward. Because of the School of Mines participation in the TIER Campus Success Program, Internet2 Grouper and Evolveum midPoint were chosen as the target deployments of this work.

February 15, 2018

Microservices with Spring Boot

February, 2018 - The term "microservices" appears in many technology journals these days. This blog addresses common questions including: "What are microservices, and more importantly, how are they a better solution than what's already out there? Also, if microservices are so great, how easy is it to develop microservices?" Microservices are stand-alone applications that break down functionality into fine-grained components that run and restart independently.

AWS ECS Auto Scaling (Part 1)

June, 2017 - A common task I run into with clients is setting up the scaling policies for an ECS Cluster. Users typically understand the concept of auto-scaling in AWS, but when it comes to an ECS cluster there are two things to consider when scaling.

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