A walkthrough in Terragrunt with a multi-environment example — Why Terragrunt? Terraform is a powerful tool for infrastructure as code, but it can be challenging to manage larger projects with multiple modules and environments. That’s where Terragrunt comes in. Terragrunt is a tool that provides extra functionality on top of Terraform, making it easier to manage complex infrastructure projects. One of…

Creating EKS cluster with eksctl and Deploying Apache spark on EKS using Helm chart — Introduction Apache Spark is an open-source analytical engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters. Apache Spark natively supports Python, Java, R, and Scala, giving you a variety of languages for building your applications. …

SonarQube is an open-source code quality-checking tool. Here we deploy Sonarqube in ECS Fargate — SonarQube is an open-source code quality-checking tool. Usually, we install this in some medium-type instances or run it in Docker. Here we are using a serverless model which is also cost-effective. We use a public docker hub image to create this. Prerequisite Aws access to create ECS service Postgres DB for…

In this post let's make use of a public terraform module from terraform module registry In my previous post, we published a Terraform module so in this post we’ll be using that module to create an S3 bucket. Open the Terraform Registry page for the S3 module.

In this post let's publish a module in Terraform. We will be creating a module to create an S3 bucket then we will be publishing it to Terraform registry. — Introduction It was a few months back I started using Terraform modules, till then I was more into root module setup. But using the root module for large projects will be a hectic task. Since I discovered Terraform module I never went back to the root module setup due to its…

This post is about the journey I took to clear Terraform Associate Certification — HOORAY..! I am happy to share that I have achieved the Terraform Associate certification badge from HashiCorp. It’s been over 3 years now since I started terraforming the infrastructure on AWS but it was not until last month I started thinking about getting certified. …

This post is about step by step process of configuring Pritunl VPN in AWS EC2 — Why Pritunl VPN? As a best practice of security we all keep our backend logic layer and database layer in private subnets with Natgatway or without Natgatway, but at times developer or DB admin, needs to log in to DB for manual querying. It is at times like this we require a Bastion…

How to configure and connect in the AWS Client VPN using the OpenVPN client — Introduction This post is to create a client VPN in AWS and with the help of an OpenVPN client, we can connect to privately hosted resources in the VPC like RDS DB, Redshift DB… etc. OpenVPN uses VPN technologies to secure and encrypt data sent over the internet. Its custom VPN…

This post will guide you through creating a multiport Fargate ECS service with Terraform module — Currently, in AWS ECS, we cannot expose multiple ports from the container to the ECS service via the AWS console. So the workaround used is to create an ECS service with AWS CLI but this involves creating target groups manually and attaching them to the load balancer, also need to…