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

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on May 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, 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 […]

Infrastructure as Code: Deployment to AWS using Terraform Part 2

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 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, 2020

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, 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 […]

How to handle API calls to a server with self signed SSL certificate

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on October 23, 2017

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 […]

Part 3 :: Establishing site-to-site VPN between OpenSwan And VyOS

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 22, 2017

Hello Guys Welcome to the final part of our series on establishing a VPN between Azure and AWS using Openswan and VyOS. This is where the real thing happens. I know if you were like me , you would already be itching to dive into the subject ASAP. Your prayers have been answered. Below is […]

Part 2 :: Configuration on Azure: OpenSwan

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 22, 2017

Hello Guys, Welcome to the part 2 of our series on establishing a VPN between Azure and AWS using Openswan and VyOS. In this post, I will be focus on azure side of things. I had to mention that even though azure is nice and easier to use, I have not gotten extensive experience with […]

Part 1 :: Configuration on AWS: VyOS

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 22, 2017

Hello Guys, This is the first part of our tutorial which aims at establishing a VPN between Azure and AWS using Openswan and VyOS. In this tutorial we will only focus on AWS side of things. I will also assume that you have a fair idea of what AWS is and what it offers therefore […]

How to do a mutual ssl authentication at reverse proxy level

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on September 19, 2016

Hello Guys, In this tutorial we are going to implement 2 way or mutual ssl authentication. I would love to keep this post short and straight to the point so it assumes that you understand what SSL is for and what we are aiming for. But in every day english it means 2 parties authenticating […]