Published inAWS in Plain English·Jul 3Member-onlyWhy Companies Should Be Using Amazon WorkSpacesAdapt To Remote Work with Amazon’s Cloud-Based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Over the years remote work has been gaining popularity, and with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, its adoption has only increased. With this trend, businesses require a secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution that enables employees to access their desktops from anywhere…Aws Workspaces6 min readAws Workspaces6 min read
Published inAWS in Plain English·Jul 6, 2022Member-onlyTerraform Modules: Adding a SSL Certificate to an ALB in AWSOverview This article is an extension from my previous on Adding a SSL Certificate to an Application Load Balancer in AWS where it walks through the manual steps in the AWS Console. Please reference it for more information on the process and information about SSL Certificates. This article deals with taking…Terraform4 min readTerraform4 min read
Published inAWS in Plain English·Jun 1, 2022Member-onlyAdding an SSL Certificate to an Application Load Balancer in AWSAWS Certificate Manager AWS Certificate Manager(ACM) is a service that allows you to create, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services. ACM simplifies the certificate process by removing the manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates. Once created, the SSL/TLS…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published inNerd For Tech·May 2, 2022Member-onlyWhat Is Terraform And Why Is It Needed?Infrastructure as Code Using Terraform Find Me Online Be Sure to Connect with me on LinkedIn Check my Medium for plenty of Hands On Terraform Projects The Traditional Approach When getting started in the cloud, users most often create their cloud infrastructure using a management console. The management console provides a user friendly graphical display that…Terraform6 min readTerraform6 min read
Published inAWS Tip·Mar 23, 2022Member-onlyThree Best Friends: Terraform, Ansible, and JenkinsUsing Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline to create AWS Infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible. First, I want to give credit to Derek Morgan and his Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins course. I recently completed his course and can’t recommend it enough. It starts off small and by the end you have a complex…Terraform14 min readTerraform14 min read
Mar 11, 2022Member-onlyCloud Resume Challenge Part 1: Static S3 Website, CloudFront & DNSI decided to take on the Cloud Resume Challenge when I was going through the Level Up In Teach DevOps bootcamp at the beginning of 2021. My intention was to complete the entire project and post one article with all the details. Well, life and work and prevented me from…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Published inNerd For Tech·Aug 16, 2021Member-onlyInstalling Jenkins Using Ansible PlaybookJenkins Jenkins is a self-contained, open source automation server used to automate tasks associated with building, testing, and delivering/deploying software. Jenkins Pipeline implements continuous deliver pipelines into Jenkins through use of plugins and a Jenkinsfile. …DevOps5 min readDevOps5 min read
Published inNerd For Tech·Jul 21, 2021Member-onlyDeploying AWS Resources Using Terraform And Jenkins PipelineTerraform HashiCorp Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure that has an open-source and enterprise version. Unlike AWS CloudFormation, which can only be used on AWS, Terraform is cloud agnostic and can be used to create multi-cloud infrastructure as well as on-prem. …DevOps10 min readDevOps10 min read
Published inAWS in Plain English·Jun 23, 2021Member-onlyTerraform: Deploying A Two-Tier Architecture Using Terraform Cloud CI/CDRequirements Create a highly available two-tier AWS architecture containing the following: 3 Public Subnets 3 Private Subnets Auto Scaling Group for Bastion Host Auto Scaling Group for Web Server Internet-facing Application Load Balancer targeting Web Server Auto Scaling Group 2. Deploy this using Terraform Cloud as a CI/CD tool to check…Terraform8 min readTerraform8 min read
Jun 14, 2021Member-onlyTerraform: Creating A Custom Module For EC2Use Case A simple Terraform file has been made by team member in your organization to launch an EC2 instance. Your company would like to use this template as the standard for launching EC2 instances, however it does not currently follow Terraform best practices. …Terraform6 min readTerraform6 min read
