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 […]
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AWS VPC to ECS from ground up
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
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 2
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
Getting Started with Ansible Works (AWX)
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 […]
How to handle API calls to a server with self signed SSL certificate
Hello Guys, Here is another post on a scenario some of you working with telcos, banks and other organizations are familiar with. There is a server somewhere which offers a service usually available over VPN, sometimes not, that you need to connect to. That server has a self signed certificate and you need to deal […]
How to establish a Route Based VPN with Azure VPN (no BGP)
How to establish a route based VPN connection to AWS Hardware VPN
Hello Guys, This post is the continuation of our conversation of establishing connection to AWS Hardware VPN. I am certainly not qualified to explain the differences between route based and policy based but I am hoping with these 2 posts it can be clear to you 😀 .For this experiment we are going to create […]
How to establish a policy based VPN connection to AWS Hardware VPN
Hello Guys, I wanted to write this article as personal documentation but as well because I wanted to be in most of our partners’ shoes. Most of the time when they want to establish a VPN connection with us and we handover a seemingly complicated AWS VPN generated configuration. In this tutorial we are going […]