So far most of my Ansible blog posts have been deploying or configuring local devices (i.e. normally one of my Raspberry Pis), but the whole idea of Ansible is that it can build whole infrastructures as code (well, YAML files in my incase). The best place to see infrastructure as code is the cloud and … Continue reading Using Ansible With AWS – Creating EC2 Instances (AWS / Ansible)
AWS has its own Git repository system called CodeCommit. Here is what AWS have to say about it: "CodeCommit is a secure, highly scalable, managed source control service that hosts private Git repositories. CodeCommit eliminates the need for you to manage your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use … Continue reading Creating A Repository in AWS Git, a.k.a. CodeCommit (AWS)
Today I am going to look at the storage solution that is AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service), and creating buckets via the web management console and the AWS CLI. Note: This post forms part of my (slightly new) AWS category of posts. What is AWS S3? AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is a place to store … Continue reading Creating AWS S3 Buckets (AWS)
So far my AWS posts have dealt with launching an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance via the AWS web management portal and installing the AWS CLI. This blog post looks at using the AWS CLI to launch an EC2 instance, and then how to stop/start the instance. First up, we need to look at what … Continue reading Launching A Virtual / EC2 Instance Via AWS CLI (AWS)
The AWS (Amazon Web Services) CLI (Command Line Interface) offers a faster approach to interacting with AWS, especially if you are already use to CLIs like the Linux or Mac OS X terminal. Installing AWS CLI The AWS CLI can be installed on Linux or Mac OS X by entering: pip install awscli A pre-requisite … Continue reading Installing AWS CLI & Some IAM Security (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be found at http://aws.amazon.com and has a whole host of different features. This blog post will take you through launching a virtual machine instance using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). If you are new to AWS then you can sign up for 12 months of free-tier services, which includes some of the … Continue reading Launching A Virtual Instance Via Web Console (AWS)
Today (18th June 2019) I had the fantastic opportunity to attend (virtually) the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWSomeDay conference. Up to now most of my cloud experience (both personally and professionally) has been via Microsoft Azure, which has allowed me to have fun completing various projects (bots, cognitive vision, temperature sensors etc), so I thought … Continue reading AWS AWSomeDay June 2019
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