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…

Using Terraform Cloud Objective: Provision a Kubernetes cluster in AWS EKS using Terraform, and will use Terraform Cloud to deploy the infrastructure. What is EKS: AWS’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed service that lets you deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Kubernetes. Prerequisites: AWS Account with admin access as a non root…

The start of a pipeline Objective: Deploy our two-tier AWS architecture using Terraform Cloud as a CI/CD tool to check our build. You can use your own Terraform configuration, but to stay in line with this tutorial, I have supplied a configuration for this project here. …

From monoliths to modules… Objective: The team needs you to create a custom module for EC2 instance with an Amazon Linux 2 AMI ID Fork and clone this repo locally with the ec2.tf template as a starting point to create the ec2 : https://github.com/LevelUpInTech/terraformec2.git Create a custom module for ec2…

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 well in line with microservices and multiple cloud providers, making it one of the fastest-moving projects in open source history. Kubernetes eliminates many of the manual processes involved when deploying and scaling containerized…

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…