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I expected that the provisioning aspect will swallow a lion's share of my time devoted to upgrade. I knew that the iterations that help my discovery process and testing are going to be really slow when run on certain cloud services. That's in contrast to superfast iterations when executing code locally: CloudFront …
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CDK is an interface between you and CloudFormation Simply speaking, CDK is just a CloudFormation generator, but wait ... that's a good thing. CloudFormation is powerful, just not pleasant to use, in my opinion. I find CloudFormation hard to read, long-winded, non-extendable, arbitrarily structured, and I dislike the …
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The following sections will highlight the Cloud Service architecture and management approach behind this site. Please note: If you are not familiar with term Pet/Cattle infrastructure management style, please have a look at my previous post in this series Pet resources 🥺 When I was first creating this site, I …
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Pets or cattle This analogy highlights the different approach we take when managing resources. Pets approach as equivalent of long-lived, manually managed resources With pets, we care about their name, we tend to them regularly, and they get that special spot in our life. More importantly, we want them to live long, …
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Introduction Surprisingly, to-date, I wrote little about the technologies behind this blog or about the tech journey it went on. Recently, I decided to improve the process behind it and update the tech stack as it aged. As I was already in that mental context, I wanted to share it and document some findings that may be …
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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 with …
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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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