Week 20: In this project your manager wants you to deploy a highly available two-tier architecture using terraform modules. The power of automation and cost-saving methodologies are showcased in this project! For this project you are allowed to have all your code in a single main.tf …

In this project I will be showing you how to deploy an application via a CI/CD Pipeline, to an AWS EC2 Instance via CodeDeploy & a AWS S3(Simple Storage Service) bucket. What you will need: An AWS account Desire to learn something new What is CI/CD? CI= Continuous Integration is…

In this project we are going to deploy a reliable and robust multi-tier architecture using a Infrastructure-as-Code(IaC) tool called AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation is very similar to the industry standard Terraform which is used by many organizations to automate the deployment of cloud architecture in a quick and efficient manner…

Scenario: Our DevOps engineering team often uses a development lab to test releases of our application. The Managers are complaining about the rising cost of our development lab and need to save money by stopping our (for this example) 3 AWS EC2 instances after all engineers are clocked out. The…

What is LDAP? LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Think of Windows Active Directory, but for Linux. LDAP allows a Sysadmin to create a central location for all users within a team or organization. LDAP stores names, numbers, and all kinds of information about shared resources within a system. …

In this project I’m going to show you how to setup a CI/CD Pipeline using Git, Jenkins, and Maven in AWS Cloud. Git: is a tool that helps developers/engineers who write code to save and manage different versions of their code. It’s like a time machine for code, allowing you…

In this project I will be showing you to create a user account in Active Directory on a Windows Server. The user we will create will be assigned the same access and permissions as an administrator. This project is part of an ongoing series of IT related projects that I…

Welcome to project #2 of my IT Home Lab. In my first project I showcased how to install VirtualBox onto your local machine and get Windows 2016 server installed onto VirtualBox. If you haven’t check out that write up, you can take a look and read it here. In this…

Welcome to my IT home lab project #1 where I showcase how to setup VirtualBox and Windows 2016 Server on your personal computer so that you can setup your very own at home IT lab. This project will be a part of a series of on-going projects that I will…