Terraform Pipelines for Dummies Part2: GitHub Actions AWS Deploy (OIDC)

Intro Did you know that 12 millions secrets were publicly exposed in GitHub in 2023 alone? This is additional evidence that leaked secrets rhyme with financial and reputation loss for users, organizations and even states. The worst thing to do is make it easy for hackers to infiltrate your company’s system. This is where workload …

How to Survive Pearson Vue exam glitch nightmare

Intro Recently, I passed the AWS SAA certification, and while sharing your achievement on socials after long months of preparation and grind can be gratifying, some Pearson Vue test takers, didn’t have the same smooth experience, for unexpected challenges due to OnVue software glitches. In this short post, I’ll take you through the surreal blunders …

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),  …