Allow DELETE method pass payload in Akamai


We have a RESTful API endpoint for DELETE request sitting behind Akamai. And the DELETE request contains some data in the payload. By default, Akamai strips off the payload in DELETE method when you only turn on 'Allow DELETE'. To allow Akamai to pass the payload in DELETE method, you have to: Enable 'Allow All Methods on Parent Servers' on … Continue reading Allow DELETE method pass payload in Akamai →

Nginx upstream key exchange issue


Continue with my previous post. Now it is about phase #3. Theoretically, it should be very straightward. All Nginx needs to do is just fowarding the Akamai reqeusts to the upstream. Right? But in real life, whatever can go wrong will go wrong 😦 In the testing, we always get '502 Bad Gateway' error. I … Continue reading Nginx upstream key exchange issue →

Bamboo plan for AWS build part 4


Swap URL: This is for blue/green deployment. The idea is to update the floating DNS to point to different stack's ELB CNAME. It allows us to easily divert the traffics to different backend stack, but keep it transparent to users. Cloudformation snippet "Resources": { "Route53DNSRecord": { "Properties": { "Comment": "Floating DNS Record", "HostedZoneName": { "Fn::Join": … Continue reading Bamboo plan for AWS build part 4 →

Bamboo plan for AWS build part 3


Continue with the Bamboo plan for AWS build, now it is time to look into the deployment plan. For each environment, I got 4 sub plans: Create Stack, Deploy Config, Swap URL and Delete Stack. Create Stack: As explained in the part 1, Stack means the infrastructure. e.g A Nginx stack has those components: ELB, Autoscaling … Continue reading Bamboo plan for AWS build part 3 →