davethemaker

Category: IaC

  • 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,…

  • Working with AWS CLI

    Currently I’m learning Docker containers and Terraform, but at the same time, working directly with AWS API using the command line interface is good to know on a low-level way too. So in this post I’m going to describe how I set up installing the AWS CLI on my macOS in case I need to…

  • Terraform: Creating configurable server

    In my previous post around spinning up an EC2 instance using Terraform, I concluded my notes with how the main.tf (the main code for the project that created the EC2 instance) repeated the port 8080 in two different sections of the code: both in user_data and when creating a security group. It’s better to not…

  • Terraform: Spinning up EC2 Server

    In this post I’m going to be following along with the book ‘Terraform: Up and Running 3rd ed’, chapter 2 – Getting Started with Terraform. I found the first chapter to be really great because it gave a 1000′ foot perspective of where Terraform fits in the IaC world, how it compares to other tools,…

  • Configuring AWS CLI

    To work with the AWS cloud resources, the AWS CLI needs to be downloaded and installed on your particular computer OS. Then, it needs to be configured- I used the AI responses from a google query to learn that I first needed to create a user within IAM, give that user permissions, and download a…