So you're an infrastructure or business application guru but you don't think you can code. And because of that, you think that AWS is not for you, it's just for coders, right? Wrong! Let's walk through some of the things you can do on AWS with just a basic knowledge of scripting and how powerful the platform is.

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AWS Global Solutions Architect
3rd July 2019
AWS for Infrastructure Peeps
Brett Looney

2. What good is AWS to me?
It’s only for developers
I know infrastructure but I can’t code
So I might as well stay doing stuff on premise

3. Wrong!

4. Boring!

5. Career Limiting!

6. Embrace the Future!

7. First: Experiment

8. Then: Learn the CLI
aws ec2 run-instances
--image-id ami-423bec20
--instance-type t2.nano
--key-name KeyPairName
Optional but highly recommended!

9. Why?

10. Automation is Key!
Automation gets rid of the boring jobs
• Delivers consistency
• And does stuff without making human mistakes
Leaves you free for more interesting things!
• As well as adding more value
• Remember the bit about career-limiting?
• This isn’t…

11. So what happens next?

12. Automatically Build Whole Environments
Let’s build a VPC
• VPC = Virtual Private Cloud
• It’s a software-defined data centre network
• CIDR range (IP address block)
• Subnet definitions
• Routes
• Internet connectivity

13. VPC Creation - CLI
aws ec2 create-vpc --cidr-block 172.16.0.0/16
aws ec2 create-subnet --vpc-id <VPCID> --cidr-block 172.16.0.0/24
--availability-zone ap-southeast-2a
aws ec2 create-internet-gateway
aws ec2 attach-internet-gateway --vpc-id <VPCID>
--internet-gateway-id <IGWID>
aws ec2 create-route --route-table-id <ROUTETABLEID>
--destination-cidr-block 0.0.0.0/0
--gateway-id <IGWID>

14. VPC Creation – CLI (VPC)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-vpc --cidr-block 172.16.0.0/16
{
"Vpc": {
"VpcId": "vpc-86891ae1",
"InstanceTenancy": "default",
"Tags": [],
"Ipv6CidrBlockAssociationSet": [],
"State": "pending",
"DhcpOptionsId": "dopt-3045aa55",
"CidrBlock": "172.16.0.0/16",
"IsDefault": false
}
}
brettski$

15. VPC Creation – CLI (Naming)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-tags --resources vpc-86891ae1
--tags "Key=Name,Value=Test VPC"
brettski$ aws ec2 describe-vpcs --vpc-ids vpc-86891ae1
--query "Vpcs[*].Tags"
[
[
{
"Value": "Test VPC",
"Key": "Name"
}
]
]
brettski$

16. VPC Creation – CLI (Subnets)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-subnet --vpc-id vpc-86891ae1
--cidr-block 172.16.0.0/24
--availability-zone ap-southeast-2a
{
"Subnet": {
"AvailabilityZone": "ap-southeast-2a",
"AvailableIpAddressCount": 251,
"DefaultForAz": false,
"Ipv6CidrBlockAssociationSet": [],
"VpcId": "vpc-86891ae1",
"State": "pending",
"MapPublicIpOnLaunch": false,
"SubnetId": "subnet-5e420939",
"CidrBlock": "172.16.0.0/24",
"AssignIpv6AddressOnCreation": false
}
}
brettski$

17. VPC Creation – CLI (Subnet Naming)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-tags --resources subnet-5e420939
--tags "Key=Name,Value=Test VPC First Subnet"
brettski$

18. VPC Creation – CLI (Internet Gateway)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-internet-gateway
{
"InternetGateway": {
"Tags": [],
"Attachments": [],
"InternetGatewayId": "igw-dbd691bf"
}
}
brettski$ aws ec2 create-tags --resources igw-dbd691bf
--tags "Key=Name,Value=Test VPC IGW"
brettski$ aws ec2 attach-internet-gateway --vpc-id vpc-86891ae1
--internet-gateway-id igw-
dbd691bf
brettski$

19. VPC Creation – CLI (Routing)
brettski$ aws ec2 describe-route-tables
--filter Name=vpc-id,Values=vpc-86891ae1
--query "RouteTables[*].RouteTableId"
[
"rtb-c6dfc2a1"
]
brettski$ aws ec2 create-route --route-table-id rtb-c6dfc2a1
--destination-cidr-block 0.0.0.0/0
--gateway-id igw-dbd691bf
{
"Return": true
}
brettski$ aws ec2 create-tags --resources rtb-c6dfc2a1
--tags "Key=Name,Value=Test VPC Main Route
Table”

20. VPC Creation - Python

21. VPC Creation - CloudFormation

22. That seems easy – what now?

23. Serverless Applications
Why run infrastructure when you don’t have to?
• Let us do the work for you…
S3: Inexpensive, durable storage with a web front-end
API Gateway: Scalable, secure API service
Lambda: Event-drive code execution
DynamoDB: Scalable NoSQL data storage
CloudWatch Events: Cron for AWS (and other triggers too!)

24. Need a stable work platform?

25. Secure
Pay as you go Simple to deploy
and manage
Provide high-performance
persistent cloud desktops to users
Managed Linux Desktops for the Cloud

26. Do you want to know more?

27. Experiment! Learn! Fly! Be Free!
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/
https://acloud.guru/
https://www.aws.training/
https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-developer-workshop
Philosophy of Security: https://youtu.be/KJiCfPXOW-U

28. Other Resources
Self-paced workshop – build serverless applications
• Or have us run it for you (just ask!)
https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-workshops
Also:
• Talk to us! We’re here to help…