July 2021

Developing on AWS Resources

27 Jul 2021 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: ttrentler | In: AWS, AWS, Developer

AWS Infrastructure

AWS Foundation Services

Developer Tool Resources for AWS

AWS Local Development and Testing

Developer IAM Resources

S3 Resources

Dynamo DB Resources

Lambda

Amazon API Gateway

AWS SAM

AWS AppSync

  • AWS AppSync simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. AppSync is a managed service that uses GraphQL to make it easy for applications to get exactly the data they need.
  • GraphQL | A query language for your API: https://graphql.org/ 
  • Creating Your First AWS AppSync GraphQL API: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ayZeVjwRPk

Step Functions

Securing Your AWS Applications

Identity and Access Management

DevOps

Additional Resources

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My User Data Recipe for an AWS EC2 Instance launched with Docker

21 Jul 2021 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: ttrentler | In: AWS

I’m using an Ubuntu server instance on EC2 and run the below script as user data on initial launch . . . .

I need to manually update the Docker compose URL/version in the script below – – Still need to figure out how to automate that.

User Data to launch Ubuntu instance with Docker installed

#!/bin/bash
# Install docker
apt-get update
apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
add-apt-repository \
   "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
   $(lsb_release -cs) \
   stable"
apt-get update
apt-get install -y docker-ce
usermod -aG docker ubuntu

# Install docker-compose
curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.21.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

# READ MORE: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
# To check: grep "cloud-init\[" /var/log/syslog
#       OR: less /var/log/cloud-init-output.log

# Manually add user to docker group
# sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
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