The top reasons I decided to switch to VS Code as my editor of choice.

To give some additional context, my previous text editor of choice was Sublime Text 3. I swore by it (mostly due to ignorance) and used it for all of my code editing. If I ever…

A quick guide for first timers trying to deploy from your local machine to elastic beanstalk.

Install the CLI

First, you need to install the eb cli.

pip install awsebcli --upgrade --user

or

bre install awsebcli

Next, you need to modify your PATH.

Linux:

export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

Mac OS:

export PATH=~/Library/Python/3.7/bin:$PATH

You may want…

If you missed the first 3 workshops, find them here. Here are 3 more AWS Workshops you didn’t know existed.

These are workshops that I have discovered, but have not yet taken the time to complete. I would love to hear about your experiences with them. …

AWS has a ton of documentation, labs, examples, etc. So much so that it is difficult to find the best material to follow. Here are some exceptional workshops catered to helping you learn.

EKS Workshop

Sometimes your AWS resources predate your Terraform code. Let’s talk about how to import those pre-existing resources into Terraform.

The first thing we are going to want to do is identify what resources need to be imported. In this case, let’s import an S3 bucket.

Before we get started make…

My experience with Terraform upgrades from version 0.11 to 0.12 have been really frustrating, until now.

Upgrading Terraform from version 0.11 to 0.12 has been a pain in the butt every time I have done it. (and I have done it many times)

Every time that I go through the…

Ready to automate your CDN deployment for an S3 website bucket? Let’s build a module to do it for you!

If you want to skip all of the fun the repo with the code we are using is located here. Also, before you get started here go check out my…

Alrighty peeps, let’s create an S3 website module for Terraform! Want to see my code? Find it here!

Creating the Provider Block

First we are going to need to create the provider code block in our main.tf.

provider "aws" {  
  version = "~> 2.0"  
  region  = var.region
}

Here we made sure to set…