Iaas With AWS: Setup SSL/TLS With Application Load Balancer Part 4

 In the previous post we created a load balancers with the target groups, rules, and instances to handle HTTPS traffic.  In this post we are going to set up our DNS records in Route 53. So go to the Route 53 dashboard, click on your domain

1. Click on "Create record"

Iaas With AWS: Setup SSL/TLS With Application Load Balancer Part 3

 In the previous post we created four instances with a Launch Template. In this post we are going to add DNS records in Route 53 and configure our Application Load Balancer with our certificates.

Before we start creating stuff let's take a step back and look at how we want to configure the website.  Let's say a bank wants to branch out into investing, so it wants to dedicate to instances to it's investing arm.  In our architecture we would have two target groups, one target group handling traffic for https://acmebanking.com and the other target group handling traffic for https://investing.acmebanking.com

We are going to register all four instances on the load balancer.

1. So now we ready to create an Application Load Balancer, give it a name and for the listener add an HTTPS listener to the existing one

Iaas With AWS: Setup SSL/TLS With Application Load Balancer Part 2

 In the previous post we created our certificates in the Certificate Manager, in this post we are going to create four instances using a Launch Template so that we could use it in our load balancer.  

1. We are actually going to use "Launch Template" to create our instances, so click on "Launch Templates" under "Instances" in the EC2 Dashboard

Iaas With AWS: Setup SSL/TLS With Application Load Balancer Part 1

 In this post we are going to set up our website to serve up https traffic so that our traffic can be encrypted.  In this post the first part of the series we are going to request a certificate from the Certificate Manager in AWS.

1. The first thing we need to do is create a certificate, In the AWS search field search for Certificate Manager then click on the drop down auto complete choice.

Iaas With AWS: Setup Auto Scaling With Application Load Balancer

 In this pose we are going to implement auto scaling on our instances.  Auto scaling is a feature on AWS that automatically scaled horizontally either based on metrics or the health of an instance. In this post we are going to setup auto scaling on an Application Load Balancer.  

1. The first thing we have to do is setup an Auto Scaling Group under "Auto Scaling" click on "Auto Scaling Groups"

Iaas With AWS: Create An Application Load Balancer (Host)

 In the previous post we went over how to create a Application Load Balancer, based on routes in the URL.  In this post we are going to change the rules so that it directs traffic based on host names.  For example we could have acmebanking.com route to target group 1 and accounts.acmebanking.com route to target group 2.  It's the same concept as the previous setup but instead of routes, we are using hostnames instead.

In order to implement this solution we need to setup a record in Route 53, which is AWS domain registration service.  You can follow along with the DNS names, but if you have a hostname registered with AWS that's even better.

1. So the first thing you want to do is go to Route 53 dashboard, go to Hosted Zones

Docker : Command to See What Containers Are Running

In our previous blog posts we ran containers with the Fedora and CentOS images.  In this blog we are going to run a command to see which containers are running in our host system.  To get a list of all the containers running on our host Ubuntu system we type in the command docker ps -a command.

Iaas With AWS: Create An Application Load Balancer (Routing)

 In the previous post we went over how to create a Network Load Balancer, in this post we are going to create one of types of load balancer AWS offers.  We are going to create a Application Load Balancer, this balancer  is designed to work best with the typical line of business web applications.  It deals mostly with the requests/response scenarios on the web, therefore it supports the HTTP, and HTTPS protocols exclusively.  It can be setup to respond to the routes that configured or the hosts.  It all depends on how your web applications serves the client.  In a way it's the easiest load balancer type to understand because it deals with headers, URLs,  routes,  parameters, query strings and etc.

Before we create the load balancer we need to create more than one instances with a web server because we need to test that the load balancer is able to switch.

1. Create four instances with the user data to create Apache Web Servers with these commands in the User Data for instance, if you need the full instruction on how to create instances with User Data you can read this post . 

Docker : Pull The Latest CentOS Image Into A Ubuntu Server

The beauty of Docker is that you can run a very lightweight image of another Linux distro on your host system.  In this post we will be pulling the latest image of CentOS into our docker container on our Ubuntu server.

Iaas With AWS: Create A Network Load Balancer

 In the previous post we went over how to create a Classic Load Balancer, in this post we are going to create one of types of load balancer AWS offers.  We are going to create a Network Load Balancer, this balancer  is for websites that require high performance and low latency websites, think of streaming data.  If your website needs real time streaming data, this is probably the load balancer for you. It supports layer 4 protocols such as UDP, TLS and TCP protocols. If you need a static IP or Elastic IP assigned to your load balancer this is your only choice because the other two load balancer does not give you the option to assign Elastic IPs.

Before we create the load balancer we need to create more than one instances with a web server because we need to test that the load balancer is able to switch.

1. Create two instances with the user data to create Apache Web Servers with these commands in the User Data for instance, if you need the full instruction on how to create instances with User Data you can read this post

Docker : Pull The Latest Fedora Image Into A Ubuntu Server

The beauty of Docker is that you can run a very lightweight image of another Linux distro on your host system.  In this post we will be pulling the latest image of Fedora into our docker container on our Ubuntu server.

Docker : Adding Non Root Users To The Docker Group In Ubuntu

One of the most common task you have to do as a Linux administrator is to add a new user.  Especially developers who always wants root access. Docker needs root access, however the person who is administering Docker is probably not the system administrator.  Most likely it will be the application developer. To accomplish this task you can use the useradd command in the Terminal session then add the new user to the Docker group.  Follow the steps below to add a new user to Ubuntu.

Installing Docker On CentOS

Docker is the hottest infrastructure technology to hit the tech world in a long time.  The appeal of Docker is that it allows the infrastructure team to utilize the capacity of the servers to near full capacity.  Docker is a container.  A container is like a micro virtualization minus the operating system.  It only contains enough infrastructure to host an app, without the fat.  Hence the term container is used to describe it.

Installing Docker On Ubuntu Server

Docker is the hottest infrastructure technology to hit the tech world in a long time.  The appeal of Docker is that it allows the infrastructure team to utilize the capacity of the servers to near full capacity.  Docker is a container.  A container is like a micro virtualization minus the operating system.  It only contains enough infrastructure to host an app, without the fat.  Hence the term container is used to describe it.