I took the CKA exam with The Linux Foundation last week. I had been preparing for this exam for about 3 months total. I think I could have cut that down to two comfortably. One month of classwork, one studying. This isn’t going to be one of those articles about…

I’ve been meaning to set up an Ubuntu server to run some docker containers as a personal project for some time. I stumbled onto some self hosting subreddits, watched a few videos about Portainer and had to try it out for myself. I had run a Plex server for my…

In this scenario we’re going to create a serverless application. We will be using cloud services like AWS API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB deploying them using Terraform. The lambda function will have both read and write access to the DynamoDB table. Serverless computing is a cloud computing model in which…

In the tutorial that follows, you specify the VPC, subnets, and security groups when you create the DB instance. You also specify them when you create the EC2 instance to host your web server. The VPC, subnets, and security groups are required for the DB instance and the web server…

In this scenario we are going to be creating an AWS Lambda in Python to automatically process any JSON files uploaded to an S3 bucket into a DynamoDB table. In DynamoDB I’ve gone ahead and created a table called “employees” and the the primary key is employee ID. It can…

In this scenario, we have a directory that is very cluttered and we need to organize and back it up simultaneously. We can do this by writing a script that checks a local folder for specific file extensions, backs then up and moves them to their appropriate directories in S3. …

I have uploaded my files to GitHub so you can follow along. This is a scenario where we are going to host a static website from a docker container. For a lot of people this simple exercise is their first interaction with docker, or a container in general. A container…

We’re going to spin up an Ubuntu Server 20.04 instance, install updates, and all of our packages needed for Python3. Lastly, we’re going to run a program to test it works. I had been a little rusty when it comes to AWS, having not used it for a couple months…

I was recently put to task on database experience that I’ve had. Realistically, I had completed a few projects spinning up RDS Aurora instances, but that was about it. I really wanted to demonstrate my flexibility and ability to adapt using tools that are new to me. …