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

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on July 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Python script to start or stop amazon ec2 instance and notify slack channel

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on January 16, 2016

Hello Guys, Happy New Year to you all. This is my first post in 2016 and I would love to share something useful for those who play around with AWS EC2 instances. Let’s get started with the prerequisites. Prerequisites Before you start, I would love to warn you about python and its discipline around indentation. […]

Introduction to Ansible

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on July 4, 2015

Hello There, This is the first article of the series on configuration management with Ansible. I hope this will give you hands on real practice time , working knowledge with Ansible Using Ansible Now that we have our default inventory and our infrastructure defined in the mother article, let’s see what we can do with […]

Taking advantage of vagrant for quick infrastructure prototyping

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 24, 2015Tagged automated, linux, ubuntu, vagrant, virtualbox, virtualization

Hello Folks I must admit, I have been very reluctant in using vagrant for while before I have seen the light. I actually had my wow moment when I managed to set up a complex virtual IT infrastructure to simulate a deployment architecture with just few lines. Let’s get going with our task today. For […]

The awakening of the Giant Microsoft

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on December 19, 2014

With .NET Core released as open source not being news anymore, I think even though I am not a Microsoft fan , this is a huge step in the awakening of the giant. According to Paul Krill of Infoworld, Experts agree that it’s not currently threatening Java. My personal view is that Microsoft is totally […]