davethemaker

Tag: Linux

  • Not cookies..Baking an AMI!

    In a previous post I manually spun up an EC2 instance and then installed and configured an Apache server and MariaDB to run a WP instance. It was useful for learning purposes, and as a reference of the benefits of automation! In this post, I’m going to be baking an AMI image, that is, creating…

  • 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…

  • Linux – misc

    Some goodies as I learn Linux:

  • 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…

  • Creating AWS Launch Template for EC2

    I’ve been creating EC2 instances on a one-off basis, which is great practice, but as I am wanting to learn how to use IaC methodologies, I wanted to explore creating a launch template. First, I selected Launch Template from within the EC2 dashboard. I gave the template a name, selected the Amazon Linux x86 AMI…

  • Connecting EC2 with MySQL and Making Stuff

    For this exercise, I spun up an EC2 instance, then spun up a MySQL database instance, and connected the two. I followed the AWS tutorial ‘Creating and connecting to a MySQL DB instance’. First, I created an EC2 instance within the default VPC. I selected the AWS Linux 2023 AMI, using Free Tier configuration parameters,…