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Track and Optimize AWS Costs with a Custom Dashboard

This tutorial is a revised version of a proof-of-concept I created for a client few months ago. I wanted to showcase how I manage costs, improve performance, and implement best practices in an AWS...

Using Terraform To Deploy a Web Server and Run a Bootstrap Script

Terraform isn’t just for big, end-to-end projects. As a Cloud or DevOps engineer, you’ll often work on smaller but critical tasks like creating and connecting a database server, setting up a security...

Automating a Serverless CRUD REST API with Node.js

In this guide, I walk you through building and automating the deployment of a serverless CRUD REST API using Node.js, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Serverless Framework, and GitHub Actions CI/CD...

I Built A Production-Ready React App And Deployed it with GitHub Pages

Putting your project online is a clever way to collect valuable feedback, show your skills, and confirm that your project works outside your local machine. GitHub Pages make it happen. It hosts any...

How to Troubleshoot Terraform

When working with Terraform, you might run into four types of issues: language, state, core, and provider errors. Understanding these error types will allow you to troubleshoot terraform issues and...

How To Protect Sensitive Input Variables with Terraform

When configuring infrastructure, you often need to use sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, API tokens, or Personally Identifiable Information (PII). It’s crucial to prevent accidental...

Creating a Spotify Playlist with Terraform

In my quest to master Terraform, I decided to take on a few challenges. While Terraform is widely used for managing cloud infrastructure, it can also interact with various services including Spotify...

How To Deploy a Container with Amazon ECS

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed orchestration platform designed to simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. Seamlessly...

Automating Continuous Deployment with Bash and Docker on AWS

In this tutorial, I will walk you through automating the continuous deployment (CD) process for a Dockerized application using a Bash script and AWS services, particularly AWS ECS (Elastic Container...

Deploy Blue-Green Environments with Terraform

Deploying new versions of an application without causing downtime can feel like walking a tightrope, but it doesn’t have to be. Blue-green deployment is a smart way to release updates while keeping...

Building Docker Containers with Python and Boto3

In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up Docker containers for Python projects with Boto3 and bind mounts. Let’s have fun. Scenario A Python development team is looking to simplify their setup...

Building a Palindrome Detector using Python

A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward, ignoring spaces, punctuation, and capitalization. Examples include “madam,” “racecar”. In...