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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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Network with the Console and Design Thoughts
December 19, 2021
We'll build a VPC Network with the Google Console. Will explain a lot of reasoning in why think a simple Google Network design will work for a lot of cases. Will address questions folks who are from the AWS world might be wondering about.
16:25
Terraspace Azure Key Vault Secrets: How to Setup and Use
January 4, 2022
We'll show you how to use Azure Key Vault Secrets with Terraspace. This allows you to not store any secret information like passwords in your Terraform source code.
Commands
In the video, to focus on learning, we mainly use the Azure Portal Cons...
11:18
Terraspace Restricting AWS Regions: Only Allow us-west-2 and us-east-1
January 25, 2022
We'll show you how to restrict the AWS regions that are allowed to be deployed to with Terraspace. Note, this check is only at the Terraspace level.
config/app.rb
Terraspace.configure do |config|
# ..
config.allow.regions = ["us-west-2", "us...
8:25
Terraform Tfvars: How to Set Variables
July 23, 2022
We'll introduce Terraform tfvars and cover different ways to use them.
Related
Terraform State
Links
Terraform tfvars docs
Github Repo: https://github.com/boltops-learn/terraform-fundamentals-101/tree/main/terrraform-tfvars
4:56
Terraform Provider Docs Resources: Navigating and Learning Where to Go
July 24, 2022
We'll provide a gentle walkthrough to some of the Terraform Provider Docs. This helps you understand where and how to look up Terraform Resource documentation.
Terraform AWS Provider Docs
3:53
Terraspace AWS Security Group: Create Tutorial
August 2, 2022
We'll cover how to create an AWS Security Group with Terraform. Though this might seem like a simple example, it's very useful to learn AWS because:
It's quick to create a security group
It's free
It'll be useful for other videos
Links
GitHu...
4:57
Terraform AWS Webserver: Configure EC2 Instance UserData and SSH Debugging
August 2, 2022
We'll show you now to create an AWS EC2 Instance with Terraform and write UserData script that will configure the instance at launch. We're combing knowledge we've learned from in other lessons: creating an instance and security group. And making...
18:12
Terraform AWS Data Sources
August 2, 2022
We'll cover Terraform Data Sources. Particularly two useful examples to help get started: aws_ami and aws_vpc.
Terraform Data Sources Links
https://www.terraform.io/language/data-sources
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/lat...
9:39
Terraform AWS Launch Templates
August 3, 2022
We'll cover how to create an AWS Launch Template with Terraform. This prepares us for later lessons like AutoScaling that use Launch Templates.
Terraform LaunchTemplate Docs:
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/res...
7:39
Terraform AWS AutoScaling with Launch Template
August 3, 2022
We'll show you how to create an AutoScaling Group with a Launch Template with Terraform. This builds upon the Launch Template video. Using Launch Template is recommended by AWS nowadays.
AutoScaling Group and Launch Template Docs
https://regist...
21:07
Terraform AWS AutoScaling with Mixed Instance Types
August 3, 2022
We'll create an AWS AutoScaling Group with Mixed Instance Types. This is one of my favorite stacks because it allows us to mix and match spot and on-demand instances. With spot, we can save 50-90%.
Terraform AutoScaling Docs
https://registry.t...
12:24
Terraform AWS Load Balancer Standalone
August 3, 2022
We'll create an AWS Load Balancer with Terraform. We'll cover all the resource components that's needed:
aws_lb
aws_lb_listener
aws_lb_target_group
aws_security_group
Terraform Load Balancer Docs
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashi...
15:24
Terraform AWS AutoScaling and Application Load Balancer
August 3, 2022
We'll create an AWS AutoScaling Group with an Application Load Balancer.
Terraform Load Balancer Docs
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/lb_target_group
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp...
18:06
Terraform Import Command: Learn How to Use It
August 3, 2022
We'll cover the terraform import command. The command import existing infrastructure resources into the terraform statefile.
Many folks do not have greenfield projects and that's fine. The terraform import command allows you to take manually crea...
7:58
AWS CloudFormation Intro: CLI Tutorial
August 3, 2022
We'll provide a general introduction with the AWS CloudFormation CLI. This is right up the alley for those who are used to using the CLI.
Links
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-instance.html#cfn-...
15:27
AWS CloudFormation: Webserver EC2 Instance and Security Group
August 4, 2022
In this video, we'll walk you through a real-world situation where:
You'll download an existing CloudFormation template
Review it
Update and fix it so it works
We'll install apache with UserData and show you how to ssh into the instance and de...
36:08
AWS CloudFormation Parameters
August 4, 2022
CloudFormation parameters are essentially inputs to the CloudFormation template. They allow you to reuse the same template and create different stacks.
Links
GitHub Repo https://github.com/boltops-learn/cloudformation-fundamentals-101/tree/mai...
11:33
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.