Terraform tricks : How to mimic nested variable substitution using locals

Intro                          β€œDeveloper’s constant urge to use Terraform like a programming language :)” My impression after enjoying my first terraform applys is that it’s kind of rigid, though when someone says Immutable and declarative in the same sentence, you should definitely get that it’s not procedural by design. Therefore,  you can’t expect a bash shell …

Terraform for dummies part 2: Launch an instance with a static website on AWS

Intro This has become a habit so far to explore different ways of automated provisioning for each cloud provider. This time, I will try Terraform on AWS and reproduce the same deployment I have completed on Oracle Cloud, and as usual we won’t just deploy an instance but also configure a website linked to its …

Launch an ec2 instance with a static website using awscli in 10 min (FreeTier)

Intro            aws cli is a strong yet easy way to automate simple repeatable tasks covering aws resources as it’s a direct, human-readable doorway to aws cloud platform.  This tutorial will not just demonstrate how to provision a website in awscloud, but will hopefully trigger your curiosity on the numerous possibilities the Command line tool can …

AWS CLI installation in 10 minutes

Almost every Cloud provider has a Command Line Interface (CLI) which is a unified tool to manage cloud resources. In previous post I described how to configure Oracle Cloud infrastructure CLI. This time my focus is its AWS equivalent as I intend to explore different ways of provisioning instances in all major Cloud shops (OCI,AWS,Azure,GCP),  …