Tag: GitHub Actions

Automate Terraform Modules README Generation with terraform-docs and GitHub Actions

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Terraform modules are essential building blocks for reusing Terraform configurations. For a Terraform module to be successful, ease of use and discoverability are key. Since creating a Terraform module also goes through a development and maintenance cycle, storing that in a GitHub repository is convenient. By doing so, Organizations improve collaboration, increase transparency, and enhance … Continue reading Automate Terraform Modules README Generation with terraform-docs 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

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

Create AWS Lambda Layer using Docker, Terraform and GitHub Actions

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A Lambda layer is a distribution mechanism for libraries, custom runtimes, or other dependencies required in the AWS Lambda functions. Cloud engineers can manage and reuse these libraries and dependencies across multiple functions by packaging them into a layer. By the end of this note, you will learn how to create a Lambda layer for … Continue reading Create AWS Lambda Layer using Docker, Terraform and GitHub Actions

Create Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB using Terraform and GitHub Actions

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In this note, I discuss creating an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB using Terraform and securely automating the provisioning process using GitHub Actions. By the end of this note, you will learn about the underlying architectural dependencies and specific properties needed to create a secure RDS for PostgreSQL DB using Terraform. Per AWS-Docs, Amazon Relational … Continue reading Create Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Access Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached from an Amazon EC2 instance using Python

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This note is the second part of my notes on Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached. In the first note, I demonstrated how to create an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached using Terraform. In this note, I list the steps to create the additional infrastructure and access the Memcached cluster using Python. To accomplish the use-case, I'll use … Continue reading Access Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached from an Amazon EC2 instance using Python

Create Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached using Terraform and GitHub Actions

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Caches store frequently accessed data in memory, which is accessible much faster than disk-based storage or even a database. This capability reduces data retrieval latency and improves the application response times. Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached is a fully managed caching service, which means AWS handles maintenance, patching, backups, and monitoring. In this note, I demonstrate … Continue reading Create Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Protecting Credentials and Variables in AWS Fargate Containers using AWS Secrets Manager

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Credentials and sensitive variables allow access to confidential data and must be protected from unauthorized access so only permitted entities can access them. AWS Fargate is a technology that can be used with Amazon ECS to run containers. AWS Fargate is commonly used to run workloads to interact with databases or access confidential data or … Continue reading Protecting Credentials and Variables in AWS Fargate Containers using AWS Secrets Manager

Enabling Health Checks and CloudWatch Logs for AWS Fargate Tasks

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In Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), HealthCheck is a mechanism for monitoring the health status of containerized applications running in tasks. It helps ensure that only healthy containers (with health check passing) serve traffic and unhealthy containers are replaced automatically. Configuring the ECS Managed Healthcheck is crucial for maintaining the availability, reliability, and scalability of … Continue reading Enabling Health Checks and CloudWatch Logs for AWS Fargate Tasks