After the Part 1 post, which specifically explaining configuration with packer, on this part, I'll write more about Terraform and AWS Codebuild. The final state that we'd like to have is something like this. 2. Terraform I will build the whole stack...
Hello World! This time I want to share one way to create a golden AWS AMI and keeping it up-to-date. The goal is to have an automated way for the AMI to get the latest update. I will be using Windows AMI, Packer, AWS CodeBuild, and Terraform. 1. Pac...
AWS Autoscaling Group This thing started when we have some user-data that do and install a lot of things, especially on Windows, the booting alone could take up to 6 minutes. Often the instance couldn't catch up with the ELB health check and causing ...
Often while we are troubleshooting for EC2 user data, we want to have visibility to what happens to the script at launch. Whether it failed or which line of code is not executing by the instance. We usually have to RDP to see the log itself or use Se...
When we launch an EC2 instance, we can pass user data to the instance for performing common automated configuration tasks or running scripts after the instance boot. With Terraform, like using the console, we could 'paste' the script we would like to...
Sometimes, while trying to connect to a server via SSH, you may encounter the error “Received disconnect from x.x.x.x port 22:2: Too many authentication failures.” In my case, the system is Ubuntu and joined to Active Directory. I can only use domain...
