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…

Let's outline some of the key differences between Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. — Introduction When asked about the best tools to automate infrastructure provisioning, two prevalent names come to mind: Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has become fundamental to businesses in their cloud journey. As the name implies, IaC provides the ability to define your infrastructure, typically cloud infrastructure, as code. …

How to install the CloudWatch agent in Ubuntu 20.04 and how to get memory metrics in the CloudWatch console — In AWS, for the EC2 instance, we won't get memory metrics by default in CloudWatch. So one way to get this done is with the CloudWatch agent. By getting the memory metrics in AWS CloudWatch we can set up an Alarm to trigger notifications or any action. In this post…

In this post, let's see what secrets manager and how to rotate db credentials secrets with the secrets manager. AWS Secrets Manager is a secret management service that helps you protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources. This service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database…

In this post lets checkout how to take backup of a working Gitlab and restore in another working Gitlab. I used an Omnibus Gitlab installation in AWS EC2 with backup location as a S3 bucket. Now lets see how to backup Gitlab. backup prerequisites Make sure the version is same in both…