by truthbrother | Jul 29, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Ansible
I wanted to create Amazon EC2 Key pair using Ansible tool. I do not want to use AWS CLI. Is it possible to create AWS ec2 key using Ansible? You need to use ec2_key module of Ansible. This module has a dependency on python-boto version 2.5 or above. boto is nothing...
by truthbrother | May 7, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
This is Part 2 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series. In Part 1, we explained why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation. In this post, we’re going to introduce the basics of how to use...
by truthbrother | Dec 29, 2020 | Terraform by HashiCorp, Amazon Web Services, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, Packer by HashiCorp
If you search the Internet for “infrastructure-as-code”, it’s pretty easy to come up with a list of the most popular tools: ChefPuppetAnsibleSaltStackCloudFormationTerraform What’s not easy is figuring out which one of these you should use. All of these tools can be...
by truthbrother | Dec 23, 2020 | Amazon Web Services
We launched the t1.micro instance type in 2010, and followed up with the first of the T2 instances (micro, small, and medium) in 2014, more sizes in 2015 (nano) and 2016 (xlarge and 2xlarge), and unlimited bursting last year. Today we are launching T3 instances in...
by truthbrother | Apr 20, 2020 | Amazon Web Services
Efficiently managing user identities at scale requires new solutions that connect the multiple identity sources that many organizations use today. Customers want to establish a single identity and access strategy across their own apps, 3rd party apps (SaaS), and AWS...
by truthbrother | Apr 20, 2020 | Amazon Web Services
This guide will walk you through the steps to connect your pfSense network appliance to your AWS VPC. There are several ways to achieve this, but if you only have one VPC you need to connect to, this is the most cost-effective way. If you have multiple VPCs, it is...