A few days ago I was tasked with provisioning infrastructure for an application using Terraform. Until recently my experience with RDS instances had been creating, copying and sharing snapshots, and referencing the correct snapshot in the resource block of the Terraform script. On this occasion, however, I needed to create a database instance without …
This is a long overdue post about how my experiments with CDK Pipelines are going. I hope that there will be a few blog posts about my experience with it, depending on how much time I have spare. This particular post is focused on how to set up a Github repo as the code …
Como si no bastara con el blog en inglés, voy a intentar a escribir algunos posts en español. Lo voy a hacer por mantener mi nivel del idioma – he vivido en España dos años y le tengo mucho carino al país, cultura y el castellano. Además, me acuerdo que una vez fui a …
So, I have the AWS Developer Associate exam booked in a week’s time, so I’m going through all the services the questions about which are likely to come up in the exam. Yesterday I looked at Elastic Beanstalk, an AWS service that lets you quickly deploy application with things such as load balancing, autoscaling …
Finally, I’ve managed to find some time to write about my experience of further playing with AWS CDK. Christmas time is supposed to be the time to relax and spend with the family, but since there isn’t that much to do in another lockdown, and to get a break from looking after Andre, I’ve …
I know that I’d promised to have a further look at AWS CDK and CDK Pipelines – I must confess I haven’t managed to finish what I had planned to do; time has also been a bit of an issue during lockdown v2. Meanwhile I thought I’d write a post that I’d been meaning …
You may have guessed by now that I am so in love with AWS. The next declaration of love is exploring AWS Continuous Integration and Delivery services. Well, actually, there is another reason in addition to being enamoured – I need to have a look at those services in preparation for my AWS Developer …
7 months ago I changes jobs. Until then I’d only heard the word AWS, and I remember when I started the new job back in March, words like ‘load balancer’ and ‘bucket’ seemed ever so alien to me. Now they are a part of my everyday work vocabulary, and even though I don’t know …
I’ve wanted to have my own blog for a while and have had a lot of ideas about how I wanted to create it and experiment with different tools and services. However, since having a child, free time (i.e. learning and exploring time) has become a really precious commodity. So I knew that the …