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CloudFormation Template and jq Tips Summarize Resources
September 17, 2017
AWS CloudFormation Templates and jq Tips. In this video, I'll show you how to use jq to quickly summarize what resources are defined in a CloudFormation template. I found this to be useful to help understand how a CloudFormation template works.
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4:08
Terraspace Quick Start
November 28, 2020
In this Terraspace Quick Start video, we'll show you how to get started with Terraspace quickly. We'll cover:
modules and stacks
custom hooks
custom args
multiple environments like dev and prod
multiple regions like us-west-1 and us-west-2
6:44
EKS Managed Nodes Cluster with eksctl
October 9, 2021
We'll walk through creating an EKS cluster with the eksctl tool. We'll create a EKS powered by Managed Nodes.
To help learn about the eksctl tool and we'll explore and review what gets created:
CloudFormation Stacks
VPC Network
EKS Cluster
EC2 ...
16:55
free lesson
EKS AWS Load Balancers Overview
October 9, 2021
Learn about the different AWS Load Balancers and how they map to EKS Kubernetes resources like Service and Ingress Resources. Kubernetes Service resources are layer 4 load balancers. Kubernetes Ingress resources are layer 7 load balancers. AWS has...
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The eksctl Docs Walkthrough
November 18, 2021
We'll walk through the eksctl Docs. The eksctl tool is a powerful way to create and managed EKS clusters. There's a lot more to the tool than the AWS docs can cover. By walking through the docs site, you'll learn where you'll need to go to use the...
7:46
Terraform Registry EKS Module Code Review and Summary
November 20, 2021
We'll review and quickly figure out what the Terraform Registry EKS module creates by using grep.
Useful greps
grep '^resource' modules/fargate/*.tf
grep '^resource' modules/node_groups/*.tf
grep '^resource' *.tf
grep '^module "' *.tf
Links:
T...
3:54
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How to Find Current AWS EC2 Spot Market Prices
December 13, 2021
We'll show you how to find current AWS EC2 Instance spot prices. There are several ways, we'll go through 6 of them!
Links:
Blog Post: How to Find the Current AWS EC2 Spot Market Price
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Pricing
Spot Instance Advisor
EC2...
5:20
AWS Spot Instance with the EC2 Console
December 13, 2021
We'll show you how to launch a spot EC2 instance.
There are different Spot Request Types. We'll also review and explain them.
Request Type
Persistence
instance
one-time
instance
persistent
fleet
request
fleet
maintain
7:29
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AWS EKS vs Azure AKS vs Google GKE
December 13, 2021
We'll cover the 3 different Kubernetes offerings from AWS, Azure and Google. We'll walk through each of their consoles, website interfaces, and explore how they work and compare.
Repos used to create the 3 different clusters:
https://github.com...
15:34
Terragrunt to Terraspace: The Step by Step Migration Guide
December 14, 2021
We'll take you through a full migration of a simple Terragrunt project to a Terraspace project. You'll be able to run terragrunt apply and terraspace up and see no changes. This allows you to test things out incrementally.
This unique approach o...
13:47
AWS Launch Templates Pros vs Cons and Theory vs Practice: How to Use Them in the Real World
December 15, 2021
We'll introduce AWS Launch Templates and explain what they do. More importantly, we'll talk about the Theory vs Practice of using Launch Templates. How to actually use them in practice.
What Settings Can We Change at Launch Time?
Launch Templa...
10:13
AWS VPC Fundamentals: CIDR Ranges, Subnets, Route Tables, IGW, NAT, Network ACL, Security Groups
December 16, 2021
We'll explain how AWS VPCs work and cover their fundamental building components. The VPC is a highly available design. This is essential if you need to build VPCs. It's also very useful when you need to debug VPC networks. We'll cover:
CIDR rang...
11:39
Google Network Fundamentals: AWS vs Google
December 18, 2021
We'll cover how Google Networks work. They are global. We'll compare them to AWS VPCs to help emphasize how they are global instead of regional, which are what most people are used to when thinking about Virtual Networks.
5:10
AWS How To Add Shortcut Console Links to the Menu
December 20, 2021
Short video shows you how to add shortcut links to the top of the AWS navigation. Makes it easy to just get to your most used AWS consoles in a single click.
0:54
Different Ways to Launch AWS EC2 Spot Instances
December 25, 2021
We'll provide a high-level overview of the different ways to launch AWS EC2 spot instances. We'll talk about their different complexity levels and age in existence. The 3 different ways:
EC2 Instances
Spot Fleets
AutoScaling Groups
The recomme...
2:52
Terraspace Secrets with AWS: Don’t Commit Secrets into Git, Instead Use SSM and Secrets Manager
January 4, 2022
Committing secrets into your source version control is not a good practice. We'll show you how to use AWS SecretsManager and SSM Parameter Store to store and use secrets safely instead.
Commands
In the video, to focus on learning, we mainly use ...
7:57
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AWS Configuring the CLI Credentials: Setup .aws/config Instructions
January 4, 2022
We'll show you how to configure the AWS CLI credentials. We'll create actual IAM users and set them up as named profiles in the ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config files.
Links:
Configuration settings and precedence
Named profiles for the AWS ...
8:22
EKS: Self-Managed Nodes vs Managed Node Group vs AWS Fargate
January 6, 2022
We'll cover the different EKS Nodes and what they mean. Essentially, EKS manages Kubernetes-as-a-Service but this mainly means the Kubernetes control plane. You still need to provide compute nodes to your EKS cluster so they have the capacity to ...
4:12
Terraspace Getting Started with AWS
January 9, 2022
We’ll go through the Terraspace Getting Started guide with AWS. We'll generate a new Terraspace project with an s3 bucket example. Deploy it, updated it, and learn how Terraspace works.
Links:
Terraspace Docs: AWS Getting Started
11:55
AWS Cloud9 IDE Editor Demo and Why I Currently Use It
January 13, 2022
Will cover the reasons why am using Cloud9 as my current IDE. Will also provide a demo of how to create a Cloud9 machine, going through and showing the resources AWS that launches.
Pros:
Internet Speed: This is the number one reason why I used ...
12:28
AWS CloudShell Introduction
January 24, 2022
Will show a quick demo of the AWS Cloud Shell. It's a nice way to do things on the go when you don't have your computer on hand. All you need is a web browser.
Some useful commands to help explore the Cloud Shell:
aws s3 ls
cat /etc/os-release
1:39
Account Structure Hierarchies AWS vs Azure vs Google
January 27, 2022
We'll cover the different ways and names that cloud providers use to organize the account structure.
2:40
Azure MySQL Flexible vs Single Server Offerings: Flexible Basically Provides HA Option
February 4, 2022
We'll cover the difference between the Azure MySQL Flexible vs Single Server offerings.
The Flexible Server is similar to AWS RDS Multi-AZ. So it provides a failover standby for High Availability, HA. Though it may remind AWS users of Aurora, it...
2:15
Terraspace Cost Estimation: A Few Examples with $1,287/mo EC2 Example and Different EKS Clusters
July 22, 2022
We'll review the Terraspace Cost Estimation instructions and then do something fun. We'll see what some of the example modules from the Terraform Registry costs. The cost estimates 🤣
ec2: $8.39/mo
complete ec2 example: $1,287/mo 😱
ecs-spot: $141...
12:31
Terraform S3 Backend: How To Configure Tutorial
July 26, 2022
We'll show how to configure an terraform s3 backend. We'll do a deep dive and inspect what terraform is actually creating in the dynamodb tables and s3 bucket. We'll also talk a little bit about the naming convention for bucket and key path.
Git...
7:05
BoltOps Tools
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Terraspace: The Terraform Framework
It provides an organized structure, conventions over configurations, keeps your code DRY, and adds convenient tooling. Terraspace makes working with Terraform easier and more fun.
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Jets: The Ruby Serverless Framework
Ruby on Jets allows you to create and deploy serverless services with ease, and to seamlessly glue AWS services together with the most beautiful dynamic language: Ruby. It includes everything you need to build an API and deploy it to AWS Lambda. Jets leverages the power of Ruby to make serverless joyful for everyone.
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AWS CodeBuild Tool
Cody is a AWS CodeBuild management tool. Cody simplifies creating and managing AWS CodeBuild projects. Comes with a powerful DSL.
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Lono: The CloudFormation Framework
Building infrastructure-as-code is challenging. Lono makes it much easier and fun. It includes everything you need to manage and deploy infrastructure-as-code.
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Kubes: Kubernetes Deployment Tool
Kubes is a Kubernetes Deployment Tool. It builds the docker image, creates the Kubernetes YAML, and runs kubectl apply. It automates the deployment process and saves you precious finger-typing energy.