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Why? I was preparing to a demo of AWS features and I was going to use CLI for most AWS interactions. Presented material was spanning across multiple services and involved creation and destruction of resources that incur cost. Some of the actions required a user that is empowered. The broad range of services required a …
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What is it? This terraform project will execute given script on AWS EC2 (installation here) and take AMI snapshot of it so that future EC2 can be spun up from that AMI, without the burden of running initial installation. Terraform destroy subcommand will purposefully NOT destroy the AMI, but will destroy the original …
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This post shows Terraform configuration files I have used to create base AWS stack for my projects. It is a minimal configuration for new VPC with public/private subnets and autoscaling bastion. Following is my best attempt at illustrating it. The stack consists of var.az_count (declared in variables.tf) subnets …
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This post shows my example implementation of auto-delete solution that will traverse my Gmail account in search of qualifying messages and remove them. If you have ever owned some of the cheap CCTV cameras you might have chosen to automatically send motion snapshots and alerts to your email address. It can work but can …
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