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Using Ansible to provision AWS EC2 instances

July 29, 2021 By truthbrother Leave a Comment

A practical way to provision instances on Amazon Web Service EC2 with Ansible. Welcome, this article shows a simple approach to use Ansible for provisioning an AWS EC2 instance. Ansible is a configuration management tool widely used to provision IT environments, deploy software or be integrated to CI/CD pipelines.… Read more

How to create AWS EC2 key using Ansible

July 29, 2021 By truthbrother Leave a Comment

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.… Read more

An Introduction to Terraform

May 7, 2021 By truthbrother Leave a Comment

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 Terraform to define and manage your infrastructure.… Read more

Why we use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation

December 29, 2020 By truthbrother Leave a Comment

If you search the Internet for “infrastructure-as-code”, it’s pretty easy to come up with a list of the most popular tools: Chef Puppet Ansible SaltStack CloudFormation Terraform What’s not easy is figuring out which one of these you should use. All of these tools can be used to manage infrastructure as code.… Read more

How useful is Ansible in a Cloud-Native Kubernetes Environment?

December 24, 2020 By truthbrother Leave a Comment

A question I’ve been hearing a lot lately is “why are you still using Ansible in your Kubernetes projects?” Followed often by “what’s the point of writing your book Ansible for Kubernetes when Ansible isn’t really necessary once you start using Kubernetes?”… Read more

New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performance

December 23, 2020 By truthbrother Leave a Comment

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 twelve regions.… Read more

How do I use CloudFront to serve a static website hosted on Amazon S3?

April 27, 2020 By truthbrother Leave a Comment

I want to host a static website on an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Then, I want to serve my website through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. How can I do that? Short Description To serve a static website hosted on Amazon S3, you can deploy a CloudFront distribution using one of these configurations: Using a REST API endpoint as the origin with access restricted by an origin access identity (OAI)Using a website endpoint as the origin with anonymous (public) access allowedUsing a website endpoint as the origin with access restricted by a Referer header For more information on the two endpoint types, see Key Differences Between the Amazon Website and the REST API Endpoint.… Read more

Why is CloudFront serving outdated content from Amazon S3?