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Step by step ECS Fargate setup from scratch using Ansible part 2

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on July 2, 2023July 2, 2023Tagged Ansible, AWS, Containers, ECS, Git, linux

Welcome to the part 2 of our attempt to deploy to ECS using ansible. This is the continuation of the ansible setup we did on in the part 1. In there in part 1, we have set up the project using a specific structure that allows for multi environments and allows for the use of […]

Step by step ECS Fargate setup from scratch using Ansible part 1

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on May 27, 2023May 27, 2023Tagged Ansible, AWS, AWS CLI, Pyenv, python

This second article from a series of 3. It focuses on how to create the same infrastructure we created in the first segment with awscli. But this time doing it with Ansible. The purpose of this article isn’t to introduce ansible to a real newbie but to help setup the project ahead of the actual […]

Step by step ECS Fargate setup from scratch using AWS CLI

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on December 5, 2022December 5, 2022Tagged API, AWS, AWS CLI, AWS ECS, Docker, java, Terminal

In this post, the first of a series of 3, we are essentially going to create the whole ECS Fargate setup from ground up using the aws cli only. There are a lot of tutorials out there that explain how to install and configure the aws cli, either version 1 or version 2. So I […]

Multistage dockerisation of a Golang application

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on December 4, 2022December 4, 2022Tagged Alpine, API, Docker, Golang, linux

Hi there!! In this post I will like to share a little dockerisation technique for clean deployment of application in docker. This application is essentially a demo application app I wrote for another tutorial of mine where I needed a working application to deploy into AWS ECS. I decided to release it hoping that it […]

AWS VPC to ECS from ground up

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on December 3, 2022December 3, 2022Tagged AWS, CLI, ECS, Fargate

Recently I was reached out by an up coming DevOps engineer to help with an AWS setup that includes launching a set of mircroservices into AWS ECS Fargate. I had created the setup in my AWS account and documented it. But that documentation had assumed a certain level of exposure and experience and the actual […]

Infrastructure as Code: Deployment to AWS using Terraform Part 3

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 25, 2020December 3, 2022Tagged AWS, IaC, Terraform

Welcome to the part3 of our Infrastructure as Code using Terraform series. All our scenarios so far are to execute on AWS. This series aims to be a gentle walk-through of Terraform with full code available on git htttps://github.com/kdjomeda/intro-to-terraform. In part1 of the series, I have evolved from a proof of concept to a real […]

Infrastructure as Code: Deployment to AWS using Terraform Part 1

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 24, 2020June 25, 2020

In this section of our series, we will focus on how to get our environment ready and how we can create simple infrastructure with few lines of Terraform code. Create your AWS IAM user with access key and secret We will be using AWS for our infrastructure. Since it’s not a good idea to use […]

Infrastructure as Code: Deployment to AWS using Terraform Part 2

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 22, 2020July 22, 2020

In the part1 section of this tutorial series, I have taken time to explain how to set up Terraform to be working with AWS using AMI and creating a simple instance running as classic EC2. This series aims to be a gentle walk-through of Terraform with full code available on git htttps://github.com/kdjomeda/intro-to-terraform. In part 2, […]

Infrastructure as code: Deployment to AWS using Terraform

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 14, 2020December 3, 2022

Today, I would like to talk about Terraform, a tool I didn’t know I needed until I got to use it. This tutorial is not really what you would expect from a “how-to” or a “getting started” one. But in a way, it introduces you to Terraform the way I would have wanted it to […]

Getting Started with Ansible Works (AWX)

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on February 15, 2020February 15, 2020

Hi readers, if you got here, it means you know a little bit about Ansible core. I suspect you also know about the community version of its enterprise offer Ansible Tower, called Ansible Works(AWX). Today, I will show you how I got it installed. I personally have gotten to the point where I need to […]