AWS 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…

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…

Using 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…

I 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…

Jenkins 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. …

Terraform 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. It’s written in a human readable…

Requirements 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…

Use 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. …

Cleaning up my AWS Three-Tier Architecture Deployment part 1 — In a previous post, Terraform: Deploy A Three-Tier Architecture in AWS, I used Terraform to create AWS infrastructure, however I did not use Terraform recommended best practices. I used a single main.tf file and hard-coded everything. As I’m just beginning my journey with Terraform, hopefully this can be forgiven. In…