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Google Instance Template and a Single Instance with the Console
December 17, 2021
We'll show you how to use Google Instance Templates. Instance Templates allow you to pre-configure settings for a VM. So you don't have to go through steps the VM console repeatedly, you can just launch the VM from the Instance Template. We'll al...
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Google MySQL CloudSQL Database with the Console
December 17, 2021
We'll create a MySQL Database Server that's managed by Google Cloud. We'll actually connect to the database confirm it's working.
We'll use both:
gcloud sql connect XXX
As well as
mysql -uroot -hXXX
12:29
AWS AutoScaling Group with ELB: Popular Stack with Traditional VMs
December 17, 2021
Show you how to build an AutoScaling Group with an ELB. We'll create a Launch Template, Security Group, Application Load Balancer, and AutoScaling Group with Multiple Instance Types. We'll cover many details of each of the settings. Will also prov...
23:05
Google Virtual Machine with the Console
December 17, 2021
We'll build a Google VM with the Console. This is a great way to get started and learn how Virtual Machines work with Google Cloud. We'll cover how the startup script works with the VM. The startup script can be used to install your own custom sof...
12:51
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
AWS AutoScaling Group and ELB: Repeat of Lesson with More Debugging
December 16, 2021
We'll create an AWS AutoScaling Group with an ELB. In this longer video, we'll show some common mistakes and how to debug and errors along the way :) We'll also show you how to further harden the security of the setup by only whitelisting the demo...
36:31
AWS AutoScaling Spot Mixed Instance Types: Newer Way to Launch Instances
December 16, 2021
We'll build an AutoScaling Group with Mixed Instance Types. This allows you to use a combination of on-demand and spot instances. As a part of this, we'll define a Launch Template, since Mixed Instance Types are only supported with Launch Template...
15:14
AWS Launch Templates and a Single Instance with the Console: Useful to Avoid Manual Repetition
December 16, 2021
We'll introduce AWS Launch Templates. They can be used to launch an EC2 Instance, AutoScaling Group, or Spot Fleets. In this video, we'll create a single EC2 instance.
14:50
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
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
The Best Terraform Statefile Approach Recommendation
December 14, 2021
Explain why think the best Terraform state file approach is a stack-env scoped approach. We'll go over the evolution process, IE: pain and suffering, that folks usually go through before arriving at the same conclusions.
This approach is actually...
5:38
AWS RDS MySQL Database with the Console: Review RDS Settings and Good Naming Conventions
December 14, 2021
We'll build an RDS MySQL database with the Console. We'll cover the settings that you can configure with the RDS database and what they mean. As a bonuses, we'll some guidelines on DB naming conventions also. We'll confirm the DB is working by con...
18:46
AWS EC2 Instance with the Console: Manually Creating is a Great Way to Learn How Things Work
December 14, 2021
We'll build an EC2 instance with the AWS Console. We'll cover the common settings that you can configure the EC2 instance with. We'll also cover the user data script and show you how to can customize the EC2 instance when the instance is first lau...
14:32
AWS VPC with the Console: Manually Creating a Highly Available Redundant Network
December 14, 2021
We'll build highly available VPC containing multiple AZs with the AWS console. This design follows baseline best practices and ensures that your DB can failover to different availability zone in the event of an outage.
16:40
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
Azure Spot VM with the Portal
December 13, 2021
We'll create an Azure Spot Virtual Machine wth the Portal. Azure's Spot offering is different in that you'll need larger instance sizes for spot. We'll show you in the demo.
3:04
Google Preemptive VM or Spot Instance with the VM Console
December 13, 2021
We'll create a Google Preemptive VM, IE: Spot Instance. We’ll use the Google Console and review the price difference. You'll show you how much you can save.
1:51
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
free lesson
AWS Spot Fleet with the EC2 Console
December 13, 2021
We'll create a Spot Fleet with the EC2 console. Spot fleets are very powerful. They create multiple EC2 instances and manage them.
There are different Spot Request Types. We'll also review and explain them.
Request Type
Persistence
instance...
10:57
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
Azure az config Set Default Resource Group
December 12, 2021
Covers a nice tip that sets the resource group default for all the az commands. This saves precious finger-typing energy :)
Commands:
az group list -o table
az config set defaults.group=demo
az network vnet list -o table
az config set defaults.gr...
1:43
Azure SQL Server with the Portal: Create and Use the Browser Query Editor To Connect and Test
December 12, 2021
We'll build a Microsoft SQL Server with the Azure Portal. We'll connect it via the Query Preview in the browser. Importantly, we'll explain the difference in the portal interfaces you'll use to see:
databases
database servers
8:02
Azure Windows Virtual Machine with the Portal: Form Options, RDP Into Box, and Delete VM
December 12, 2021
We'll build a Windows Virtual Machine with the Azure portal. We'll also connect to it, but downloading the RDF and using a Remote Desktop client.
6:06
Azure AKS Cluster with the Portal: Create Cluster and Deploy App with kubectl
December 12, 2021
We'll create an AKS Cluster with the Azure Portal. We'll show how Azure creates the Kubernetes cluster resources under a different resource group with the prefix MC_.
We'll explore and explain how AKS dog-foods it and uses a Uniform Virtual Mach...
13:31
Azure Scale Sets and Load Balancer with the Portal: Apache Web Server UserData Script Example
December 11, 2021
We'll build an Azure Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Load Balancer. We'll walk through useful debugging steps. This helps you in case things go wrong.
The custom data script we'll use:
#!/bin/bash
whoami
apt install apache -y
18:08
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.