Orchestrating Kubernetes on AWS with Terraform

Introduction In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to streamline their operations, improve scalability, and ensure the resilience of their applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) emerges as a beacon of efficiency and scalability in this quest, providing a managed container service that allows you to run Kubernetes …

Event-Driven Automation: Creating a Text File upon EC2 Instance Lifecycle Events

Introduction In the world of cloud computing, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances are the backbone of countless applications and services. As the need for automation and orchestration grows, it becomes essential to leverage the capabilities offered by EC2 instance lifecycle events. These events, triggered during various stages of an instance’s lifecycle, provide a powerful …

Automated Infrastructure Management with Terraform Backend and S3 Bucket Integration

Introduction When creating infrastructure as code (IaC) via Terraform, it is necessary to maintain a history of the infrastructure being built. It accomplishes this using a state file, which is merely a straightforward JSON file that outlines the infrastructure that Terraform has built and any modifications that might be made. This file should be checked …

Setup a Highly Available Website in AWS Using Terraform

Have you ever awoken from a deep sleep and been in the mood to setup a highly available, load balanced website using NGINX, while having the webpages pulled securely from an S3 bucket that also happens to hold your NGINX logs? Me neither; however, I was asking for a friend. Even though the question is …