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AWS: using Certificate Manager to generate a TLS certificate for a delegated subdomain


Categories: aws

AWS Certificate Manager can generate custom TLS certificates that can be used by AWS resources to enable secure TLS communication. In this article, I will delegate authority of a custom subdomain to AWS Route 53, then allow AWS ACM to generate certificates for this subdomain.  This subdomain and certificate can then be used within the … AWS: using Certificate Manager to generate a TLS certificate for a delegated subdomain

Terraform: provisioning AWS servers in both public and private subnets


Categories: Virtualization

It is relatively straightforward to create an AWS public subnet where the compute instances have access to the public internet via the default internet gateway. But once you start building private subnets behind it, you must start considering security groups, routing, and the NAT gateways required to reach public services. In this article, I will … Terraform: provisioning AWS servers in both public and private subnets

CloudFoundry: Installing a BOSH Director on AWS


Categories: Containers, Virtualization

BOSH is a project that unifies release, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud based software.  It also serves as the underlying infrastructure for deploying the CloudFoundry PaaS. In this article, I will lead you through deploying the BOSH Director to Amazon EC2 which is the first step in deploying both CloudFoundry CFAR as well as CFCR … CloudFoundry: Installing a BOSH Director on AWS

AWS: Installing the AWS CLI on Ubuntu


Categories: Automation

Amazon EC2 provides a web interface for managing IaaS, but for repeatable infrastructure deployment what you really want is the ability to deploy and manage this infrastructure using an API or command line tool. In this article we want to focus on the CLI (command line interface), which shields us from the API innards and … AWS: Installing the AWS CLI on Ubuntu