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Application Deployment with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Tolulope Adeleke — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:40:51 +0000

What is AWS Elastic BeanStalk ?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a fully managed service by Amazon Web Services, offering a simplified approach to deploying, managing, and scaling web applications. Developers can effortlessly upload their code, and Elastic Beanstalk takes care of tasks like infrastructure provisioning, load balancing, and application health monitoring. It supports various programming languages and platforms, automatically scales based on demand, and integrates seamlessly with other AWS services like CloudWatch, RDS, and S3.

Elastic Beanstalk environments can be easily managed, supporting multiple stages like development, testing, and production. Its integration with various AWS services offers a comprehensive ecosystem for application deployment. Developers can achieve a balance between ease of use and customization, ensuring their applications run efficiently at scale.

Let's create an elastic beanstalk using these basic steps;

Step 1:

Navigate the Console, locate the search bar and type AWS elastic beanstalk.

Step 2:

Click on Create application, on the left panel, click on Applications

Step 3:

Enter the name of your application on the Application Information Page.

Then Click Create to initiate the application creation process.

Step 4:

Now proceed to set up an environment by Navigating to the left hand , click on Environment

Step 5:

Now we configure the environment

Environment tier -Choose the Web Server Environment

Application Name - Then name your environment .

Platform - Managed Platform

Choose PHP as your platform and leave others with the default recommended. Then Click next to proceed

Step 6:

Configure service access

Click on Use an existing Service role.

If you click on EC2 Instance at this point it is not updated, so we need to work on this.

Step 7:

Open Console on a new tab and choose the IAM to assign roles

Step 8:

Use Case - Ec2
Add permissions to AWS Elasticbeanstalkwebtier _ Give a Role name

Step 9:

Proceed to click Create role . Role Created

Step 10:

Configure Network Settings

Under the VPC section, Choose the default recommended .
Choose an availability zone.
Click Next to proceed

Choose the default recommended for everything then proceed to submit

Step 11:

Click “Submit” to launch the environment.
Verify the success message on the page.

Step 12:

Copy the domain link provided and paste it in your web browser.

Yayyyy...You have successfully created a PHP app using AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Step 13:

Now we verify if our instance is running and resources.

Well done Mate !

Code On Gitbash- Push to Github

Tolulope Adeleke — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:50:09 +0000

As a beginner it gets difficult to master Gitbash and push anything to Github even when this is a fundamental skill for a developer. This article will take you through every step till you push to Github.

Let's go through each step, as we code on Gitbash and push to Github.

Step 1:

If you haven't downloaded and Install Gitbash - Do so now!

Git Bash is an application for Microsoft Windows environments which provides an emulation layer for a Git command line experience.

You can download Gitbash here -

Step 2:

On Git Bash, set your username and email using the following commands:

git config — global user.name “Your Name”
git config — global user.email “your.email@example.com”

Step 3:

Create a project directory

Step 4:

Now, change directory

Step 5:

Now start a Git repository

Run the command git init to create a new Git repository

Step 6:

Use touch index.html to create the index.html
Run vim index.html to edit

Step 7:

Connect to GitHub

Go to to your Github repository, create new repository, copy the http link and append it to the “git remote add origin” command.

https://github.com/Tioluwaniope/Gittest101.git

Step 8: Stage Changes

Run command git add command to stage changes to the index.html file

Step 9: Commit Changes

Run git commit -m command to take a snapshot of your file. This makes the changes permanent.

Step 10: Now push to Github

Run command git pushto push the committed changes to the master branch on GitHub.

Well done ! You have successfully navigated the process of pushing changes from your local environment to GitHub.

Create An S3 Bucket On Aws And Upload A File.

Tolulope Adeleke — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:17:01 +0000

What is Amazon S3?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Amazon S3 provides management features so that you can optimize, organize, and configure access to your data to meet your specific business, organizational, and compliance requirements.

Let's Proceed to create an S3 bucket;

Step 1:

Sign into your AWS management console .

Step 2:

In the left navigation pane, choose Buckets.

When the create bucket page opens, now fill in the details.

Step 3:

Choose a region - A region where your s3 bucket will be situated

Step 4:

Name your bucket- Your bucket name must consist only of lowercase letters, numbers.

Step 5:

Object Ownership- For Object Ownership, disable or enable ACLs and control ownership of objects uploaded in your bucket.

Step 6:

Block Public Access settings for this bucket

For Block Public Access settings for this bucket, choose the Block Public Access settings that you want to apply to the bucket.

By default, all four Block Public Access settings are enabled. I recommend that you keep all settings enabled,

Step 7:

Bucket Versioning - For Bucket Versioning, you can choose if you wish to keep variants of objects in your bucket.

Step 8:

Tags- Under Tags, you can choose to add tags to your bucket.( Tags are key-value pairs used to categorize storage). This is Optional

Step 9:

Default encryption, choose Edit.

To configure default encryption, under Encryption type, choose one of the following:

Amazon S3 managed key (SSE-S3)

AWS Key Management Service key (SSE-KMS)

Step 10:

Advanced settings: This is optional(We will not touch this in this blog)

Step 11:

Click Create bucket

Now we upload a file on the bucket created

Step 12:

On the Upload page, Select the upload button

Step 13:

Now click the add files button to add files

Step 14:

Give it few seconds to get uploaded

Step 15:

The file is successfully uploaded...yayyy

Click on the file to view the full details

Well done Mate ! You have successfully created S3 bucket and uploaded a file.

Deploy An EC2 Instance On AWS and Install Nginx

Tolulope Adeleke — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:03:42 +0000

What is Aws Ec2 instance ?

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows users to rent virtual servers in the cloud. These virtual servers are known as "instances." EC2 instances provide scalable computing capacity, allowing users to quickly scale up or down based on their computing requirements.

Some of the key features of Ec2 includes Scalability, pricing options, security, elastic load balancing, etc.

Let's deploy ec2 instance on AWS using the following steps;

Step 1:

Log into your AWS Console and change your region, I will be using US East 2.

Step 2 :

Locate Ec2 on the homepage using the search bar

Step 3:

You either click on instance on the resource page, then go ahead to launch instance on the next page. On launch instance immediately using the launch Instance button

Step 4:

Once you click the launch Instance button, choose a name and add a new tag

Step 5:

Proceed to pick the image to work with. For this, we will be making use of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is the modern, open source operating system on Linux

Step 6:

Choose an Instance type. we will make use of the default Instance type.

Step 7:
Create a key pair. choose the RSA key pair type and Pem private key format, download and save in a folder.

Step 8:

Proceed to launch Instance... Give it few seconds and wait for the notification Successfully Launched.

Step 9:
Go back to view instances, select the Instances just created and connect.

Step 10:

we connect using EC2 Instance connect. Make sure to take note of the username and copy the Public IP address.

Once connected, you proceed to run commands that will give way to installing Nginx

Step 11:

The first command to run is Sudo su this is because we need to be on root to install nginx. Then confirm that everything is updated by running the command apt update

Step 12:

Proceed to install nginx with the command apt install nginx

Step 13:

Proceed to check if DNS is accessible.Go back to Instance deatails to copy and paste on your web browswer

Step 14:

If not accessible, you get this

Step 15:

Move to security groups from the panel, select the group ID of the Instance just created.

Step 16:

Proceed to edit Inbound rules

Step 17: Add a new rule. Type : HTTP (not HTTPS)
source: Anywhere Ip4

Then proceed to save rule

Step 18: check DNS accessibility again using the Public IPv4 DNS or reload previous page.

Well done Mate ! You have succesfully deployed AWS Ec2 Instance and installed Nginx.

Create and deploy a virtual Machine Via Powershell

Tolulope Adeleke — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:01:16 +0000

Let's create a virtual machine using windows powershell.

I will advise you make use of windows powershell 7. If you don't have it, download it.

What is Powershell and what is it used for ?

PowerShell, based on Microsoft .NET technology, serves as a versatile attribute with dual functionality. It can function as both an open-source shell and a scripting language. When utilized as a shell, PowerShell enables the control of a computer through commands issued via a command-line interface, specifically pertaining to the operating system.

Here are basic steps in creating your virtual machine on powershell;

Step 1 : Install Azure PowerShell Module

You will have to install the azure powershell module using this command -“Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber -Force -Scope CurrentUser”

N.B - If you have this installed just like i have, you don't have to reinstall

Step 2: Connect to your Azure Account

Next you have to connect your Azure account, make sure you have an active subscription and log in to your account. The command to connect to is Connect-AzAccount

Step 3 : create a resource group

Note that if you have an existing and active resource group on your azure subscription, you don't have to create a resource group.

To create a resource group, use the command New-AzResourceGroup -Name -Location

Step 4 : Create your virtual machine

Now you can go ahead and create your virtual machine using this command but make sure to fill in your own parameters and names

New-AzVM -Name teevm -ResourceGroup teerg -Location eastus -Image Ubuntu2204 -VirtualNetworkName teenet -SubnetName teesubnet -SecurityGroupName teesec -PublicIpAddressName teeip -OpenPorts 80,3389

To create the Virtual machine , a user and password is required.

Once vm is created it will bring out the details just like this;

Yippee... Congratulations mate🎉

At this point you've installed the Azure PowerShell module, connected it to your Azure account and have successfully automated the deployment of a virtual machine.

Create/Deploy A Linux Virtual Machine Using a Custom Template.

Tolulope Adeleke — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:35:42 +0000

I can create and deploy a virtual Machine in 60 seconds ? Not kidding mate😊

Let's try it now using these basic steps:

Step 1:

Search for custom deployment on the Azure portal.

We will be creating a Linux virtual machine. Select 'create a Linux virtual machine'

Step 2:

We have a template already. Just fill in ** resource, admin password and admin username**

Step 3:

Review and Create

Step 4:

Wait for deployment in few seconds

Step 5:

Your deployment is complete. An overview of your virtual machine can be seen in "Go to resource group".

Well done mate 👌 You have successfully created and deployed a Linux virtual machine in 40 seconds.

Create A Function APP (using a Webhook) Via Azure Portal

Tolulope Adeleke — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:19:27 +0000

Do you want to create a Function App ?

Let's create one together.

What is Azure Function ?

Azure Functions is a serverless solution that allows you to write less code, maintain less infrastructure, and save on costs. Instead of worrying about deploying and maintaining servers, the cloud infrastructure provides all the up-to-date resources needed to keep your applications running.

It is a serverless compute service offered by Microsoft Azure that allows you to run event-triggered code without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure.

What is Azure Function APP ?

Azure Function Apps are the containers for your functions

Here are the basic steps to create a function App

Step 1:

On the home page of the portal , search for function app and click on 'create'

Step 2:

Create using the following details;

Make sure to create a "Function App name".

Then - REVIEW AND CREATE

Step 3:

Give it sometime to deploy (wait few mins)

Step 4:

Deployment is Complete. Now click on "Go to resource"

Step 5:

Click on create in Azure portal

Step 6:

Proceed to create a function . Make sure to choose a template - Use "HTPP TRIGGER"

Step 7:

Now fill in the - Template details

You can make use of the default 'new function'

Authorization Level - Make use of function.

Selecting the right authorization level depends on how much security you want. If you really care about security and want detailed control over who can do what, then go for function-level permission. On the other hand, if you just want things to be easy for users without making them log in, you might choose anonymous Level.

Step 8:

In the left menu of the newly created HTTP trigger function, click on Code + Test, and then choose Get function URL from the top menu. To copy it, click the copy icon that appears on the right side of the page.

Step 9:

Paste the copied URL into your browser's address bar. Add the query string ?name= to the end of the URL and press enter to make the request. If you selected function as the authorization level, append the string &&name= at the end of the URL in the browser's address bar. The result will show your name on the screen. As shown below;

Step 10:

Whenever the trigger function runs, it will be logged, as depicted in the image below.

Well done mate 👌 You have successfully created a Function App Function.

Create an IOT Hub (via Azure Portal), Authenticate using a Raspberry Pi

Tolulope Adeleke — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 05:30:19 +0000

Need to create an IOT HUB ?

Trying to authenticate a connection to an IoT device using a Raspberry Pi device simulator?

Let's create one together... First, let's try to understand what Azure IOT is.

What is Azure IOT Hub ?

Azure IoT Hub is a cloud service within Microsoft Azure that facilitates secure and scalable communication between IoT applications and the devices they manage. Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect any device virtually.

It seamlessly integrates with other Azure services, allowing developers to build end-to-end solutions, and provides monitoring and diagnostics capabilities for tracking solution health and performance.

Now create an Azure IOT HUB via Azure portal using these basic steps:

Step 1:

Step 2:

Search or Locate IOT Hub on the list of resources from the category "Internet of things"

Step 3:

For the Basics Category;

Under Project details (resource group )- I will use an existing resource group "Decemberworkload" but if you don't have one create a new resource group and name it.

Step 4:

Under Instance details - we have to name the IOT HUB

"Teehub"

Region: East US
Tier : Standard
Daily message limit : 400,000

THEN - REVIEW AND CREATE

Step 5:

You will get the full details of the resource - Click the 'Create button'

Step 6:

Give the deployment time to be completed.

Step 7:

Deployment is complete, Click on 'Go to resource'

Step 8 :

Take note of the IOT HUB Usage

Now we will be registering a new device in the Azure IoT hub

Go back to the home page and search for IOT hub, you will see the hub that was just created. click on it

Step 9:

On the left hand panel , under device management, click on devices - then add a new device

Step 10 :

Create a Device ID - Then 'click on save' to save

Step 11 :

Once the device is created successfully, click on it to view.

Then go ahead to copy the 'primary connection'. Make sure to use the copy icon.

Step 12:

Go to the Azure raspberry pi simulator web page,go ahead to replace the string on line 15 with the one we copied in step 11.

Step 13:

Click on 'run' to run the command

Step 14:

Once you run with the primary connection string. The red light beeps and that shows you have successfully added a new device and authenticated a connection.

Yippee🎉and Well done Mate👌

Create A Linux Virtual Machine/Install Nginx

Tolulope Adeleke — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:25:25 +0000

There are basic steps one need to follow to create a linux virtual machine. The steps are as follows;

Step 1 :

The first thing you need to do is login to the azure portal, search for virtual machine. Click the create button.

Step 2 :

Create or use an existing resource group

Step 3 :

Give the virtual machine a name - 'Linuxvm'

Step 4 :

Image- choose Ubuntu server

Step 5 :

create your username and password

Step 6 :

Choose a size (standard D2as_v4)

Step 7:

Now move to administrator account.You can choose to either use ssh public key or password as Authentication type.

Step 8 :

Under Inbound ports - select SSH (22) and HTTP(80)

Step 9 :

Move to Monitoring and 'disable' diagnostic. Then click review and create

Step 10 :

Validation passed- Click create

Step 11:

Deployment in progress( Give it sometime)

Step 12 :

Deployment is completed. Click on "Go to resource"

Step 13 :

Click on connect and select Native SSH

wait for validation, also give it some time until it is configured

Step 14:

Open powershell on your computer and type in this command

ssh username@Ipaddress

Respond yes to continue

Step 15:

Type in your password

Step 16:

You need to be in root to continue or do anything on linux.

Type in the command

> sudo su

Step 17:

Now we install nginx with this command (Package manager)
`

apt install nginx
`

Yayyyy we have succesfully created a Linux virtual machine and installed nginx

Step 18 :

Now we test to make sure of our installation.

Copy your public Ip address and run it on your computer web browser.

Yippee💃 Well done mate.

I hope this is of great help to you.

Create and Deploy a windows server via Azure

Tolulope Adeleke — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:40:51 +0000

Trying to create a Windows web server ?

Let's create and deploy a windows server using microsoft Azure using these basic steps.

Step 1 :

Locate virtual Machine on the Azure portal and create

Step 2 :

Under Project details (resource group )- I will use an existing resource group "Novemberworkload" but if you don't have one create a new resource group and name it.

Step 3 :

Under Instance details - we have to name the virtual machine

"windowssevervm"

Region: Choose Australia east
Availability options : Availability zone
Availability zone : Choose just one zone- zone 1
Security type : Choose Trusted launch virtual machines
Image : Choose windows server 22 Datacenter : Azure Edition- x64 Gen2
Vm Archicteture : X64

Step 4 :

Under administrative account

Username : create your username and password ( note that you need to remember this info ).

Step 5 :

Under Inbound Port rules

I will be installing on the windows server so select HTTP (80) and RDP (3389)

Step 6 :

Click to confirm licensing option

Step 7 :

Under monitoring - Disable diagnostic

Step 8 :

Review and create (Make sure it shows validation passed to be sure everything is accurate)

Step 9 :

Deployment is in progress

Step 10 :

Deployment is complete . Click on 'Go to resource'

Now click on connect

Step 11 :

Select 'Native RDP', wait for it to validate and get configured before you click on 'Download RDP'

Now it is configured, download RDP file

Step 12 :

Once downloaded, connect to it

Step 13 :

Connect with the username and password created when creating your VM

Step 14:

Your remote desktop connection is ready...yayyy

Step 15 :

Now open powershell on your remote desktop, just like you will do on your computer. we're going to Install on powershell

Step 16 :

Once powershell is open (give it time)

Type in the code to install windows feature which is 'web server'

install-windowsfeature web-server

Step 17 :

Web server installed

Step 18 :

Now copy the Ip address as shown in the image below and place on your web browser. We're doing this to test and see if our web server was truly installed.

You will get to see this after running your Ip address on your web browser.

You have sucessfully created a windows server .... Yayyy 💃
Well done Mate👌

Create a Virtual Machine hosted by Azure (via Azure Portal)

Tolulope Adeleke — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:12:17 +0000

Getting started in the cloud space shouldn't be hard right ?

Hello Cloud enthusiast 😊

Trying to create a virtual machine using microsoft azure?

Now ,Let's create one together using these basic steps. They are simple steps.

Step 1:

Register for the free azure subscription if you're learning. This helps a lot and you get $200 credit for free to practice. You will receive an email like this when you register for the free subscription.

Step 2:

I want to assume you have signed in and ready to kickstart.

Step 3:

On the home page, click on virtual machine and click create

Step 4:

Click on the first one that says "Virtual machine hosted by azure"

Now we're about to create our virtual machine

Step 5:

Under Project details (resource group )- I am going to create a new resource group and name it

"Novemberworkload"

Step 6:

Under Instance details - we have to name the virtual machine - I am going to name it

"Tolulopevm"

Region : Choose Australia east
Availability options : Availability zone
Availability zone: Choose just one zone- zone 1
Security type: Choose Trusted launch virtual machines
Image : Choose windows 11pro
Vm Archicteture: X64
Username : create your username and password ( note that you need to remember this info )

Step 7 :

Now click on the licensing option

Step 8:

Review and create

(sometimes you get a false alarm on validation, simply ignore and create)

Go ahead to create after validation passed.

Step 9 :

Your deployment is in progress( Give it some time)

Step 10:

Your deployment is complete... Yayyyy

You can see our virtual machine is running

Step 11:

Now connect , it's a window vm so we use RDP... click on select

Step 12:

We wait for validation, as it have to validate before getting configured

Now our RDP is configured we need to download

When you download if you are using a window laptop, you connect but on a MAC, your username and password will be required before you connect.

Put in your password and connect. You can log in using your username and password.

Our remote connection is live...Yasss

Hey fellow cloud developers, we're done with creating a virtual machine hosted on Azure. Yippee🎉

I hope this is a great help to you as a beginner and if you have been practicing along, well done and great Job Mate!

See you on my next blog and click the follow button ✌️

Configuring AWS with terraform using Ubuntu

Tolulope Adeleke — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:51:37 +0000

Hello there 🙋‍♀️

I will be sharing the basic steps on how to configure AWS with terraform using Ubuntu. If you're a beginner, this will definitely save you some time and energy.

Here we go... Yayyy

Hey...You need to have an AWS account you might want to try the free access account as a beginner.

You need to download your VMware workstation pro (Make sure it is the latest version of Ubuntu). It is quite heavy and takes a very long time to download and install this.

Make sure to remember your Credentials (Username and Password) while installing your VMware. Note, this is very important

You should get this after installation

It starts from here;

and ends here...

If you follow this steps clearly, you should get terraform installed on your VMware workstation pro. Here are the steps in order;

On your platform, search for terminal then click on it to get started. Now run the following commands;

1. wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/1.1.3/terraform_1.1.3_linux_amd64.zip (always confirm the latest version)

2. sudo apt-get install zip -y (Sudo means superuser do or substitute user do)

3. unzip terraform*.zip

4.sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin

5. terraform --version or terraform -v (this will give you the version of terraform you installed)

6. mkdir /terraform (this has to do with directory)

7. cd /terraform

8. vim config.tf

You should get this after running those commands;

If you have gotten this far...Kudos

9. You have to fill this in for configuration

provider "aws" {
project = "my-project-id"
region = "us-central1"
}

You can leave the page by clicking on (esc ,then shift and : then type wq) with this you can leave the page, so as to go back to continue with deployment.

10. Now run terraform innit

Now log in to the AWS Management Console click on your name on the dashboard, scroll down to security credentials. Copy the Access keys(access key ID and secret access key)

11. sudo snap install aws-cli --classic

12. aws configure

fill all the required credentials here (credentials from step 10)

13. mkdir /terraform

14. cd /terraform

15. touch main.tf

Make sure to fill in this command, it should appear like
this

terraform {
required_providers {
aws = {
source = "hashicorp/aws"
version = "~> 3.27"
}
}
required_version = ">= 0.14.9"
}

provider "aws" {
profile = "default"
region = "us-west-2"
}
resource "s3 bucket" "tolubucket" {
bucket = "clouddeveloper"
acl = private
tags = {
Name = "storage bucket"
}
}

16. Now run terraform innit

17. terraform plan

18. terraform apply

Now go to your AWS Console to check your deployment

That is all!

well done... If you have gotten this far, Kudos.

See you on my next blog👊 There is a section 2 for this