Category: Powershell

Secure RDP Access to Amazon EC2 for Windows: Leveraging Fleet Manager and Session Manager

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Fleet Manager is a service AWS Systems Manager provides to securely manage Amazon EC2 instances at scale. Cloud engineers can log in via remote desktop (RDP) to Amazon EC2 instances for Windows using Fleet Manager to perform troubleshooting or management tasks. Previously, a set of configurations were required to access an Amazon EC2 instance for … Continue reading Secure RDP Access to Amazon EC2 for Windows: Leveraging Fleet Manager and Session Manager

Install and configure CloudWatch Logs agent on Amazon EC2 instance for Windows using user data

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Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides. It monitors log files, collects and tracks metrics, sets alarms, and triggers actions to help AWS users ensure the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure resources. CloudWatch integrates with various AWS services, such as Amazon EC2, to provide comprehensive … Continue reading Install and configure CloudWatch Logs agent on Amazon EC2 instance for Windows using user data

Automate Azure Boards iteration using PowerShell and Azure Pipelines

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I start planning for the following year in the last two weeks of December. I use Azure DevOps to track my work  -break down goals into features, and features into user stories, which I map into sprints. Creating iterations and adding them to projects is something that anyone can automate. Last year I used the … Continue reading Automate Azure Boards iteration using PowerShell and Azure Pipelines

Create an Amazon Managed Grafana dashboard using Terraform and Azure Pipelines

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Recently I came across a use case where I was required to create Grafana dashboards using the Terraform Grafana provider. Although it did not sound too complex, it soon became once I started automating the process using Azure Pipelines. In this note, I documented the challenge and the solution. Before diving deeper, an Amazon Managed … Continue reading Create an Amazon Managed Grafana dashboard using Terraform and Azure Pipelines

Install and use AWS tools for PowerShell on Azure DevOps Pipelines YAML

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Often while working on automation, I am required to interact with AWS cloud resources. For example, when using my laptop, I use the AWS CLI; I have the latest version installed. However, I prefer AWS Tools for Powershell if I automate the process into a build pipeline. If you are new to AWS Tools for … Continue reading Install and use AWS tools for PowerShell on Azure DevOps Pipelines YAML

Push Docker images to Amazon ECR using YAML based Azure Pipelines

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When it comes to identifying a process to deliver continuous value to customers, CI-CD is the defacto standard. And container technology enables that by encapsulating an application and its dependencies into a package that can be hosted and scaled independently of other applications. So DevOps engineers and application developers merged these ideas to forge a … Continue reading Push Docker images to Amazon ECR using YAML based Azure Pipelines

Create Azure DevOps iterations using PowerShell

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I start planning for the following year in the last two weeks of December. I use Azure DevOps to track my work  -break down goals into features, and features into user stories, which I map into sprints. Creating iterations and adding them to projects is something that anyone can automate. I learned that from Vinicius … Continue reading Create Azure DevOps iterations using PowerShell

CI/CD of Terraform workspace with YAML based Azure Pipelines

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This note focuses on using Azure DevOps with Terraform workspace to automate the ideas discussed in the previous two notes (i) CI/CD using Terraform and Azure Pipelines -ideation and (ii) Terraform workspace with multiple AWS accounts. If you are new to Azure DevOps, I would suggest you familiarize yourself with either Azure DevOps build and … Continue reading CI/CD of Terraform workspace with YAML based Azure Pipelines

Exploring Azure Pipelines, Terraform, and Powershell

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As of this writing [Feb 2021], if you've used the Terraform extension from Microsoft DevLabs, you'd have noticed that there is support for only a tiny set of Terraform commands out of the box. These are init, validate, plan, validate and apply, and destroy. But Terraform has many commands: fmt, import, output, show, taint, workspace, … Continue reading Exploring Azure Pipelines, Terraform, and Powershell