codepipeline Finalizing CodePipeline with Lambda Hey there, it has been awhile since my last post! No I did not contract COVID-19 yet. I have been busy studying for the AWS Devops Professional Certification! Now that
AWS Migrating an On-Prem Virtual Machine to AWS Currently there is a huge push to migrate from on premise environments to AWS. In these scenarios a "lift and shift" approach is ideal especially for legacy applications where no
codepipeline The Return of CodePipeline So for the past three weeks while studying for the AWS Devops Professional certification, I've been punch-drunk with setting up automated pipelines. I've already automated my container image creation process
AWS Creating Docker Container Images Automatically on AWS! It is a chore to update and build container images. Personally speaking from managing this website running on containers, I hate having to create new container images and uploading it
SSM Playing with AWS Systems Manager Slowly I'm learning more and more AWS services. Today I'll be writing about an awesome service called Systems Manager (SSM) and how it can be used to maintain and manage
AWS Load balancing on AWS ECS Okay I confess I got lazy and wanted to push out my previous AWS migration post a fast as possible. Well in my haste, I completely neglected implementing redundancy. If
EKS Creating a Kubernetes Cluster Using EKS Hello friends! It's time to ring in the new year with some cool container orchestration with EKS! Tonight I'll be showing you all how to setup an EKS cluster on
packer Installing and Using Packer to Create AWS Images Hashicorp's Packer is an open source tool that enables users to create machine images using infrastructure as code. What this allows me to do, is create custom images with my
prometheus Monitoring AWS Resources with Prometheus In the last blog post, I showed how to setup Prometheus to monitor my lab environment. I used node exporters on my virtual machines to expose metrics that Prometheus would
acm AWS Certificate Manager If you've read my previous blog post, I migrated my entire Ghost blog to AWS utilizing ECS. In the previous post, I only enabled HTTP, now it's time to secure
ECS Migrating My Ghost Blog to AWS I haven't been blogging as much as I wanted to last month due to a very persistent cold that sidelined me for nearly two weeks. So this blog entry will
AWS Practicing Blue Green Deployment in AWS Blue green deployment or sometimes referred to as red black deployment is a deployment strategy where a new environment (green) running the most up to date code base is created
AWS Playing with an Elastic Load Balancer AWS offers load balancing to EC2 instances, containers and serverless functions. This enables you to position a fleet of instances to handle incoming requests from the internet. In a traditional
cloudformation Using Cloudformation with Codepipeline Alright!!! If you've been following the last post, I've setup a pipeline to create a flask based website and deploy it using Elastic Beanstalk (EB). EB is great service when
codepipeline Setting Up a CI/CD Process with AWS CodePipeline Today I'll be setting up an automated delivery process using AWS codepipeline. What is codepipeline? Codepipeline is AWS's take on a CI/CD platform like Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo, and
codecommit AWS CodeCommit If you don't already know AWS has it's very own code repository service called CodeCommit. In today's tutorial, you can follow along with me as I setup a repository using
terraform Terraform Basics with AWS With the rise of multiple cloud vendors, being able to spin up environments programmatically can be a huge challenge. An operator will need to understand varying services and syntax for
Serverless Serverless Exercise with AWS Lambda and Python You may have already heard of the serverless craze. For those like me who are always six months behind the curve; serverless is the concept of running code without having
AWS Setting up a bastion host on AWS So you may be wondering why I'm creating this tutorial, when I already have a setup in Azure (see blog entry here)? Well to keep things simple, I have been
AWS AWS Solutions Architect Study Notes Great success!!! I have recently made it official, I obtained the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification by passing the SAA-C01 exam! Resources Used for Studying Okay so how did I
