Tutorials

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this project I will install WordPress on Ubuntu 20.04. To complete that I will first install NGINX, then PHP, MySQL, and finally WordPress.   Background NGINX is the fastest growing and most...

Terraform tests allow you to verify your module configurations without impacting your existing state or resources. Testing in Terraform is separate from the regular plan or apply workflows. Instead...

In this short lab, I will show you how to create an EKS Cluster properly using Terraform. Usually, I’d create a `main.tf` file and put all the resources needed to set up your EKS cluster in one place...

In this tutorial, I will show you how Boto3 can be used to directly interact with AWS resources from Python scripts. If you’re diving into AWS with Python, Boto3 is the go-to library. It’s the...

In this tutorial, I will show you how to streamline CI/CD Cost Management with Python Scripts and AWS Lambda. Scenario Consider your DevOps team using a development lab for application testing, where...