AWS Workshop
Practical overview of some useful AWS cases
intro
About me
- • Pim Snel <pim@technative.eu>
- • Cloud Engineer at TechNative NL
- • Previous life… ran a software development company
- • Loving the good life…
- (family, wine, beer, foodie, music festivals… play around!)
obsessed with Open Source software..
Creativity meets the Cloud
Reasons to learn AWS..
intro
Why learn AWS
- • It’s a toystore filled with building blocks
- • Idea’s turn into reality much faster
- • There are no borders between development and infrastructure
Let’s get started
The Warming up..
Browsing through the AWS Admin Console
Takeways
- • Get familiarized with AWS Console
- • Learn to find the most important services
- • something with regions
- • Navigating in the menu
- • Searching for a service
- • Typical services: S3, EC2, IAM, Route 53
- • Bookmarking
- • Dark Mode
you spent hours building a huge demo..
and this happens…
WTF
😱
everything is gone!!!
Have you selected the correct region?
AWS Billing and the Cost Explorer
Takeways
- • Always be aware of your cloud spend
- • Learn how to identify costly services
- • Billing overview
- • Using the Cost Explorer
- • Turn off unused services that cost money
Now lets really start
Installing a LAMP machine
Installing an EC2 Bitnami Lamp machine
Takeways
- • Learn how to install prebuild AMI’s
- • Learn about security groups
- • Learn EC2 basics
- • Some basic and advanged SSH stuff
Steps we need to take.
- • Setup
- • First Connect
- • Open the web interface
- • Getting stuff inside your VM
- • Access phpMyAdmin via a SSH tunnel
Our Managed Services DNA
Creating Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
A minimal Terraform Example
Takeways
- • Learn how to get CLI access to AWS
- • Understand the concept of Terraform
- • Learn how to deploy resources in AWS
Steps we need to take.
- • Prepare AWS CLI
- • Install Terraform
- • Create a litte terraform project
- • Deploy and test
https://github.com/technative-university/02-minimal-terraform-exercise
Terraform is modular
Implementing external terraform modules in Terraform
A modular Terraform Exercise
Takeways
- • Learn how to navigate in the Terraform Registry
- • Learn how to implement Terraform Modules
- • Learn about Lambda, API Gateway and SES
Steps we need to take.
- • Read the exercise instructions
- • Read find the html-form-action module
- • Read module the module instructions
- • Deploy and test
https://github.com/technative-university/03-terraform-module-form-endpoint
Choose your execise
➡️ Installing a LAMP server
➡️ Minimal Terraform
➡️ MailForm Endpoint with Terraform
Exercises for the bored nerds 🥱
Exercises for the bored nerds 🥱
Bonus exercises Docker + Traefik
Steps to take.
- • Turn of the webserver in the Bitnami host
- • Install Docker & Docker compose
- • Fire up a traefik docker container
- • Fire up Umami with docker-compose with traefik conifguration
Exercises for the bored nerds 🥱
Add authentication to static site with Cognito
Steps to take.
- • Read the module docs from static-website-cognito-auth
- • try to implement
- • Bonus Bonus: connect to your Google Cloud authentication.
Thanks!
😀
Contact me for questions
Let’s plan the next workshop
There is so much more to tell
Lets
work
together