Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts about AWS! Throughout this series, I’ll be covering various AWS topics as I prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect exam. I thought what better place to start than with one of the most fundamental steps when beginning with AWS: creating an account. In this post, I’ll discuss the root user that’s created with your AWS account and how it differs from IAM users....
In the previous post, we talked briefly about EC2. In this post, we’ll explore it in a bit more detail. We’ll launch an instance and use it to run an nginx web server which will be accessible from anywhere using a URL. So without further ado, let’s get started :) Search for “EC2” in the AWS search bar. From there click the “Launch Instance” button. Now you would see a screen to choose an AMI....
This article is going to introduce you to the Infrastructure as a Service side of AWS. We’ll start from the basics of how accounts in AWS work and cover some fundamentals in this article. Then in the next post, we’re going to do something a bit more hands-on and see EC2 and S3 in action. AWS Accounts? So let’s talk a bit about AWS accounts first. If you just have a username and password for your account then you have what is called a root account....
Hey folks, in this post we’ll see how you can use Kyverno to enforce some best practices for your EKS cluster. For those not familiar, Kyverno is a Kubernetes native policy engine that aims to make your life easy when managing clusters. To know more you can read my previous post on Kyverno where we discuss the project and its internals in detail. With that out of the way, let’s get started!...