AWS S3

Category: Storage Amazon provides object storage service in the form of S3 - Simple Storage Service. This service is used to store data in the form of objects or files. It is very easy to use S3, but at the same time looking at the number of configuration options provided by Amazon it can get …

AWS Elastic Block Store

Category: Storage While assembling a PC from scratch, we connect various components to build a working machine. One of the components we add for storage is SSD/HDD. AWS Elastic Block Store is the same for virtual machines/EC2 instances. Think of this as a removable hard disk for VMs. AWS EBS provides a way to add …

AWS EC2

Category: Compute AWS Elastic Compute Cloud, more commonly known as EC2 is one of the core services offered by AWS. At a very basic level, EC2 are virtual machines. These virtual machines can be used as servers of various kinds - web servers, application servers, CDNs, jump servers, etc. Cloud computing offers various advantages and …

Terraform States

Before we move to the 2nd part of Terraform CLI, I think it is important to discuss Terraform States. This is one of the fundamental concepts while learning to work with Terraform. We will make use of this commit for the example we have been using in this Terraform series. Feel free to clone the …

Terraform Syntax – Part 1

This post is intended to give a brief overview of the configuration syntax of Terraform. We would go through an example and touch up on some of the important aspects of Terraform configuration language, to successfully create an IaC and see that in action. This by no means is an attempt to rewrite all the …

Introduction to Terraform

Welcome to the very first blog post of this year. This post is an introduction to Terraform which is a tool to manage various cloud infrastructure services in the form of code. You essentially codify your infrastructure and thus also known as Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Talking about Digital Transformations that organizations go through, the …