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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.

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AWS

Creating AWS EC2 Instances and Security Rules with Terraform (5/5)

Tutorial and source code explaining how to manage AWS EC2 Instances and Security with Terraform.

AWS

AWS VPC Subnets, Routing Tables and Internet Access using Terraform (2/5)

Tutorial and source code explaining how to create and manage AWS networking with Terraform.

AWS

AWS VPC, Route 53, RDS MariaDB, EC2 using Ansible and Terraform (1/5)

Tutorial and source code explaining how to provision and configure a VPC, Route 53, RDS MariaDB, Instances and security groups using Ansible and Terraform on AWS to run WordPress in an Ubuntu server with Nginx, PHP, and Let’s Encrypt.

Kubernetes Tutorials

Using a NodePort in a Kubernetes Cluster on top of VirtualBox

Kubernetes tutorial explaining how to use a NodePort to publish applications in a Kubernetes cluster running in VirtualBox with Vagrant and Ansible

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AWS

AWS Basic VPC Elements

Best practices for naming and using AWS Infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible.

Kubernetes and Istio Header based Routing

Kubernetes Tutorials

Istio Patterns: Traffic Splitting in Kubernetes (Header/Cookie Based)

How to split traffic in Kubernetes with Istio based on request headers, tutorial, and examples with source code.

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Kubernetes Tutorials

Istio Patterns: Traffic Splitting in Kubernetes (Canary Release)

Tutorial on how to use Istio on Kubernetes for releasing new versions of software to the Cloud.

AWS

Create an AWS IAM User for Demos

How to create AWS IAM user for Terraform and Ansible demos.

AWS

Create an AWS Account for Demos

In order to run the examples presented in IT Wonder Lab you will need accounts in different cloud providers. Most of the providers offer free tiers or some demo credits to test their services, be aware that running the examples might cost you money. Visit aws.amazon.com/free to understand what is included by AWS in its free tier offer. Create an e-mail account for singup Create a new email account or an alias that will be used to sing-up in AWS. I like to use a group e-mail address so I can delegate access in case of need. Signup for an