I’m so triggered right now… In this project we will create 3 Lambda functions that will: Send a message to SQS queue when an HTTP API Gateways end point is reached Get the messages from SQS and send them to an SNS topic we have subscribed to by email Receive…

Let’s make a cluster, buster. It’s week two with Terraform and I have been given a new task. For my first project (creating a two tier architecture in AWS with Terraform) I built my infrastructure in one big, giant Monolith file. This time I’d like to break my resources into…

Let’s write, plan, apply and DESTROY some resources in AWS — HashiCorp Terraform is an IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tool that allows you or teams to build/rebuild/change and track those changes to cloud infrastructure with ease. This makes it highly desirable to the DevOps workflow. One of the things that make Terraform so special, is that it is platform agnostic. This…

Meet your new helmsman… Kubernetes in simple terms: Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration tool that deploys containers at scale. It works in line with microservices (one of the newest cloud trends) and multiple cloud providers, making it one of the fastest-moving projects in open source history. Kubernetes eliminates many of the manual processes involved…

Docker: So what are we lookin at anyway? Docker is an open source platform that enables developers to build, deploy, run, update and manage containers. Docker combines application source code with the operating system (OS) libraries and dependencies required to run that code in any environment. Containers simplify the development…

Become a bucket head in this quick AWS tutorial — What is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) you may ask? Amazon S3 is an AWS service that provides you with object storage for many different use cases in a secure, highly available, and cost effective manner. It can be fairly easy to manage data stored in S3 and use cases…

because “good things come in threes” — With this article we are going to attempt to create a 3-tier architecture in AWS, one step at a time, to try and best understand its structure. What is 3-Tier Architecture you may ask? 3-Tier Architecture is used in web-based applications and consists of 3 layers: Web Tier or (Client Tier) which takes input and provides output…

because making lists is fun… Hello everyone and welcome back. With this article we are going to go through the steps of making your own DynamoDB table, filling it with data, and doing it from the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface). …

What is Cloudformation? — If you need to deploy more than just a handful of services or applications on AWS, over some time, you’ll find that it is tedious to set each one up manually. This is where Cloudformation comes in… CloudFormation is an infrastructure automation platform that deploys resources in a repeatable and…