Tag: Infracost

Create Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group and load balancer using Terraform and GitHub Actions

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When project teams host an application or service on an Amazon EC2 instance, they have specific questions about the underlying infrastructure. A few of them could be: (a) Can the project team be assured that if some or all existing EC2 instances were terminated or unresponsive, new Amazon EC2 instances (with the application hosted) would … Continue reading Create Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group and load balancer using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Add an application load balancer to Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet

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In this note, I create a highly available environment using Amazon EC2 instances spread over multiple availability zones attached to an application load balancer. I also have a link to my GitHub repository with the code. In the past, I wrote a note on how to toggle traffic between three EC2 instances in three availability … Continue reading Add an application load balancer to Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet

Implement pull request-based workflow using Terraform, Infracost, Checkov, and GitHub Actions

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The software development process has continuously evolved over the past several years. The evolution process continued with the wide-scale availability of cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. We realized the practice of infrastructure as code (IAC) when the development practice of coding was merged with the operations practice of creating and managing cloud infrastructure. Then, … Continue reading Implement pull request-based workflow using Terraform, Infracost, Checkov, and GitHub Actions

Estimate AWS Cloud resource cost with Infracost, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

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There are two broad aspects to running a successful business. These are (a) creating a product that generates revenue and (b) managing the product cost that is lower than the revenue. E.g., if the product generates $100 in revenue and costs $90, then the business can survive because it is generating a 10% profit margin. … Continue reading Estimate AWS Cloud resource cost with Infracost, Terraform, and GitHub Actions