davethemaker

Tag: wordpress

  • 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…

  • How *not* to use AWS services: monolithic WP installation on single EC2

    I’ve been working with Terraform in creating an EC2 instance and provisioning it within a single AZ and subnet. I haven’t instantiated any scaling groups yet, though that’s on the near horizon, which is, along with an ELB, important for failover reasons and minimizing risks. In this post, I’m going to get some hands-on experience…