davethemaker

Category: Code

  • AWS Console: VPC+SN+SG+EC2+RT

    In this post, I’m going to detail my journey building out this infrastructure. Here’s the goal: The goal is to practice a few things besides the deployment of these resources: INTRO: There’s a lot of directions that this project can grow, but the scope for this particular project is limited in scope: the ability for…

  • Terraform: Data Source: Debian > Amazon Linux 2

    In my previous iteration of using Terraform to configure AWS resources to build out the infrastructure needed (VPC, AZ, subnet, security group, Internet Gateway, Subnet Association) to host a running EC2 server, I used a Data Source that spun up a Debian instance. That worked great but tbh I have been spending most of my…

  • Terraform: VPC, EC2..

    As I learn the AWS services ecosystem, using the AWS Management Console mostly, I would like to practice IaC skills using Terraform. Here’s what’s been helpful.. This video has been helpful. Firstt, have to configure and authenticate, and I wanted to do this through VSC. Add on: AWS and Terraform modules. Click on the AWS…

  • AWS CloudFormation

    I’m working on learning AWS by systematically reading through “Amazon Web Services In Action, 3rd edition”, by Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig. There are so many resources that are available, and it’s easy to get pulled here and there – but I find this book to be pretty thorough without being too detailed or confusing,…

  • Visualizing SQL data

    I worked with data analysis using Panda, matplotlib and more during my studies at UW, but subsequently focused on cloud infrastructure and securing resources. Building out my database and SQL skills, I’m coming full circle to using visualization to better understand data- this is helpful in all sorts of ways! Here are some links to…

  • Containers w/ Alembic, Postgres DB, VSC + RAW vs ORM SQL Queries

    This posting is where I’m going to post the steps that I took to do the following: 1) set up Visual Studio Code to work with Containers 2) download docker images 3) connect to various containers which all are geared up to build a python-flask-PG DB application 4) work with alembic and flask to work…

  • Shell Scripting

    There’s a lot of tools and things to learn when it comes to networks, cloud, IaC, and so forth. There are a few that I understand to be fundamental: python, networking, Linux, and…scripting. So, even though I am loving learning about all things cloud and networking, I am going to shift to deep dive into…

  • Pure Python for Daily Steps App

    Today I want to practice what I’ve been learning in Python around data structures by building an application that will allow a user to sign up, log in, then add values to different metrics – all of which point towards the user achieving their goals. There won’t be a database for this app, just storing…