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Category: Virtual Computing

  • 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…

  • EBS and EC2

    I’m exploring with EBS volumes – that is, Elastic Block Storage – and there are some interesting characteristics that I’ve discovered. They are viewed at a type of “network usb stick” in that the EBS volume can be “unplugged’ from one instance and plugged in to another one; they are versatile in that way. That…

  • Querying AWS Services via JSON JMESPath queries

    JMESPath is helpful in helping to query JSON output data, for example to filter or manipulate that data. This is useful when working with AWS Services, particularly through CLI and/or with services such as CloudWatch or Systems Manager. I’m following this resource on my learning journey, which I’m sharing some of those steps here 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,…

  • 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,…

  • Working with SQL : ER > Tables

    In this post, I want to dive a bit deeper into SQL – I wrote about this in a few other posts, but lately I’ve been working with Flask (a framework for building back-end python apps) and realize that I want to make sure I’m solid in this foundation. It’s going to be important going…