AWS Secrets Manager helps us to create, manage, rotate and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle In this story, we will learn how to create and consume secrets using AWS Secrets Manager and Terraform. Creating a Secret for a Variable In this first example, we will create a secret using a…

Over the last few weeks, I wrote a couple of stories on how to use Terraform to create internal and external load balancers and use ACM to create SSL certificates and write records in Route 53 (see below). How to Deploy EC2 Instances with an Internal Load Balancer, and ACM…

One of the benefits of using the public cloud is that you can use it as an extension of our data center and deploy internal applications (not exposed to the internet) using automation. In this story, we will learn how to build several components to create a good foundation base…

In this story, we will learn how to create DynamoDB Tables in AWS using Terraform. In particular, we are going to learn: Create DynamoDB Tables Create DynamoDB Table Item Bulk Import using .JSON files If you are interested in creating DynamoDB Global Tables, please check this story → https://gmusumeci.medium.com/how-to-create-amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-in-aws-with-terraform-268d39809329 Prerequisite: AWS Credentials

In this story, we will learn how to create DynamoDB Global Tables in AWS using Terraform. The story includes both: DynamoDB Global Tables V1 (version 2017.11.29) DynamoDB Global Tables V2 (version 2019.11.21) If you are interested in Create DynamoDB Simple Tables Create DynamoDB Table Item Bulk Import using .JSON files …

In this story, we will learn how to build several components to create a good foundation base to deploy high available web applications in AWS. We will deploy: Amazon Linux EC2 Instances in multiple AZs An Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute the load between these EC2 ALB Target Group…

In this story, we will learn how to patch an EC2 Machine running Amazon Linux 2. Note: Kernel Live Patching is not supported in Amazon Linux 2 instances with 64-bit ARM. Patching the Operating System Packages We will SSH the EC2 instance using ec-user@[machine-name] and then we will start updating Amazon Linux packages: [ec2-user@kopicloud ~]$…

In this story, we will learn how to deploy a Windows Server with SQL Server VM Instance (VM) in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) using Terraform. GCP Compute Engine provides images with Microsoft SQL Server preinstalled on Windows Server. …

In this story, we will learn how to deploy a Fedora Linux VM Instance (VM) in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) using Terraform. Prerequisite: GCP Credentials Before creating our GCP VM Instances, we will need GCP Credentials to execute our Terraform code. Please refer to the “How to Create a Service Account for Terraform…