Tutorials

Tutorials and Best Practices for the Cloud

At IT Wonder Lab we share best practices and tutorials for the deployment of applications and the management of cloud infrastructures.

We have tutorials for the following technologies in English and Spanish:

Kubernetes: Kubernetes is an open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services. Kubernetes facilitates declarative deployment of infrastructure and applications.
Terraform: Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using best practices by defining the infrastructure as code. Terraform can manage infrastructure from the main cloud providers: AWS, Google, Azure, OpenStack, VMware, Oracle, Docker, CloudStack, …
Ansible: Provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and continuous delivery with hundreds of modules available to automate repetitive tasks in the main operating systems and cloud and on-premises providers.
AWS: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most popular, powerful, and distributed IaaS and PaaS cloud platform with enterprise capabilities.

LAN, NAT, HOST Only and Tunnel Kubernetes networks

Kubernetes Tutorials

Kubernetes Cluster using Vagrant and Ansible with Containerd (in 3 minutes)

Tutorial and full source code explaining how to create a Kubernetes cluster with Ansible and Vagrant for local development under 3 minutes.

Terraform Tutorials

Terraform Cloud Agents in a Kubernetes Cluster

What are the Terraform Cloud Agents?
With Terraform Cloud Agents, a company can manage its private infrastructure as code and benefit from all the functionality of Terraform in a SaaS scenario.

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Ansible Tutorials

How to Share Infrastructure in Multiple Terraform Projects?

Methods to divide Terraform AWS infrastructure between different teams and projects using Terraform: Using Terraform Data Sources, Accessing a Remote Terraform State-file From Other Project, …

Kubernetes Tutorials

Installing Istio on Kubernetes

How to install Istio in a Kubernetes Cluster to use it as a service mesh for a microservices architecture.

Kubernetes Tutorials

How to Deploy an Application in Kubernetes with Terraform

How to publish multiple replicas of an Application (from the Docker Registry) and create a NodePort in Kubernetes using Terraform (in 10 seconds)

Kubernetes Tutorials

Installing the Kubernetes Dashboard and managing the Cluster using kubectl

How to install the Kubernetes Dashboard and manage the cluster after installation.

PostgreSQL running inside Kubernetes and using an external NFS Server

Kubernetes Tutorials

Running Postgres in Kubernetes with a Persistent NFS Volume

How to create a Kubernetes persistent volume for Postgres long term storage of data using a NFS Volume

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Ansible Tutorials

How to use Ansible and Terraform together?

This Ansible AWS tutorial shows how to use Ansible and its dynamic inventory to provision the software and configuration of infrastructure that has been created with Terraform.

AWS Terraform module

AWS

How to disable AWS instance destroy with Terraform?

Techniques to prevent infrastructure destroy in Terraform by protecting selected instances and resources from being accidentally destroyed.

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Terraform Tutorials

How to programmatically use your public Internet IP address in Terraform?

Obtain your public IP address and use it in Terraform to create AWS Security Rules.

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AWS

Creating AWS RDS Database with Terraform (4/5)

Tutorial and source code explaining how to create and manage MariaDB (or MySQL) RDS database with Terraform in AWS.

AWS list of AMI

AWS

AWS Route 53, AMI Lookup and EC2 Creation with Terraform (3/5)

Tutorial and source code explaining how to manage AWS Route 53 DNS Service, create an register an EC2 instances and find an AMI with Terraform.