Cloud and DevOps

Terraform being an Infrastructure as a Code helps us to manage a lot of infrastructure for several platforms in a consistent manner.  In this blog, I will walkthrough on deploying a terraform code using  Github actions Terraform code to create S3 bucket In this blog, I will walkthrough each blocks in terraform to create an S3 bucket in AWS in automated workflow using GitHub Actions. Lets look into the Terraform files. To understand easily, I have created separate tf files for each purpose, but you can still use all in one tf file as per your convenient. You can use any name with tf extension, for better understanding I used following names. versions.tf ...

Use Case We know that EC2 Linux instances are accessible through the private keys by default. However, SSH is allowed but you cannot use SSH password authentication to access Linux instance as it is disabled by default. So, what would happen if you lose the private key of your Linux instance? In this blog, I will walk you through the easiest ways to login when you lost the Key pair What is a key-pair file? Key-pair is a combination of a public and private key. Amazon EC2 uses public-key cryptography to encrypt and decrypt login information. Private key is only the way to get access to the instance, what if you lost the key? Is your servers lost in black hole? Thankfully nothing is lost you still can access your server, let me show you how can you solve this problem. Things that you should know before to proceed to this topic This procedure will requires s...

What is VPC Endpoint A VPC endpoint enables private connections between your VPC and supported AWS services. Endpoints are classified as Interface and Gateways endpoints. In this blog, I will be showing how to host interface endpoints in shared model Do you have Multi AWS Accounts in Organization? When you have multi accounts structure in your Organization then creating endpoints in each accounts will increase the costs and IPs, in this blog I will explain how you can deploy endpoints in Shared Services Account and associate the member accounts VPCs with Private Hosted zone. Below is the Architectural diagram which I will be showing in detail on how to setup and also how the flow works Architecture Design AWS Services/Components required VPC Subnets Endpoints Hosted zone and Record set Transit Gateway I...

What is Grafana? Grafana is open-source visualization and analytics software. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore your metrics no matter where they are stored. In plain English, it provides you with tools to turn your time-series database (TSDB) data into beautiful graphs and visualizations. Setup Grafana on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service This blog explains on how to run Grafana on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes cluster and adding cloudwatch as datasource to Grafana. Using Grafana you can simplify Kubernetes monitoring dashboards from Clo...