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Amazon S3-SNS-Lambda Event-Driven Architecture with Terraform

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When development teams need to process thousands of file uploads daily across multiple applications, traditional polling-based monitoring systems create significant operational overhead and cost inefficiencies. Manual file-processing workflows can't scale to meet modern application demands, leading to delayed processing, wasted resources, and potential data loss during peak loads. Event-driven architecture solves this challenge by automatically … Continue reading Amazon S3-SNS-Lambda Event-Driven Architecture with Terraform

Automated GitHub Self-Hosted Runner Cleanup: Lambda Functions and Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

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Running self-hosted GitHub runners on an Auto Scaling group enables organizations to have high availability during active development so that development teams do not have to compromise on runner availability. This allows development teams to have the same flexibility as that of a GitHub-hosted runner while also maintaining all the benefits of self-hosted runners, such … Continue reading Automated GitHub Self-Hosted Runner Cleanup: Lambda Functions and Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

Build Secure GitHub Self-Hosted Runners on Amazon EC2 with Terraform

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GitHub, in addition to being an excellent version control system, offers workflow automation capabilities (Actions) that enable testing, building, and deploying code based on triggers such as code commits, pull requests, or scheduled events. These workflows run on runners, which are virtual or physical machines that execute these workflow steps.While GitHub offers free hosted runners … Continue reading Build Secure GitHub Self-Hosted Runners on Amazon EC2 with Terraform

Attach AWS WAF to load balancer using Terraform and GitHub Actions

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Public-facing load balancers are vulnerable to attacks, including DDoS, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and bot attacks. These attacks can degrade the load balancer's performance, rendering it unavailable to legitimate users and negatively impacting business operations. AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a service designed to protect resources like load balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, API … Continue reading Attach AWS WAF to load balancer using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Provision AWS Resources with GitHub and HCP Terraform

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HCP (HashiCorp Cloud Platform) Terraform is a managed service that allows cloud infrastructure engineers to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using Terraform securely, efficiently, and in an automated manner. It eliminates the need to maintain a Terraform infrastructure, such as the underlying execution environment and state management. It provides a hassle-free way to manage cloud … Continue reading Provision AWS Resources with GitHub and HCP Terraform

Setup cross-account Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) access using Terraform and GitHub Actions

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that allows developers to store container images securely. It does so by storing them in an ECR repository, a logical separation for storing, organizing, and versioning the Docker images inside an ECR repository. In a typical containerized application CI/CD pipeline, the Continuous Integration … Continue reading Setup cross-account Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) access using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Securely Connect an AWS Lambda to an Amazon VPC Using Terraform

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that allows cloud engineering teams to create a private network within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. It enables them to define a virtual network environment, including IP address ranges, subnets, and route tables while providing control over network configuration and security. AWS Lambda is a serverless … Continue reading Securely Connect an AWS Lambda to an Amazon VPC Using Terraform

Create VPC Flow logs to publish to Amazon CloudWatch Logs using Terraform

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VPC Flow Logs is a feature in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables capturing information about IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). These logs provide detailed visibility into network traffic, helping to monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze traffic patterns, security issues, and performance within the VPC. The logs … Continue reading Create VPC Flow logs to publish to Amazon CloudWatch Logs using Terraform

Blue-Green Deployments for Amazon ECS Fargate with CodeDeploy, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

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Blue-green deployment is a software release strategy that minimizes downtime and risk by running two identical environments, "blue" and "green." At any given time, one environment (e.g., blue) is live and serving traffic, while the other (green) is idle and used for staging new updates. Once the updates are tested and validated in the green … Continue reading Blue-Green Deployments for Amazon ECS Fargate with CodeDeploy, Terraform, and GitHub Actions