By this time you have created multiple EC2 instances, and post installation manually installed applications like Jenkins, docker etc. Now let's switch to a little automation part. Sounds interesting??🤯
AWS
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User Data in AWS
When you launch an instance in Amazon EC2, you have the option of passing user data to the instance that can be used to perform common automated configuration tasks and even run scripts after the instance starts. You can pass two types of user data to Amazon EC2: shell scripts and cloud-init directives.
You can also pass this data into the launch instance wizard as plain text, as a file (this is useful for launching instances using the command line tools), or as base64-encoded text (for API calls).
This will save time and manual effort every time you launch an instance and want to install any application on it like Apache, docker, Jenkins etc
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IAM
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources. With IAM, you can centrally manage permissions that control which AWS resources users can access. You use IAM to control who is authenticated (signed in) and authorized (has permissions) to use resources. Read from here
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Step 1: Start the instance where you have installed Jenkins previously.
Step 2: Edit inbound rules
Select your instance --> Security --> Click launch-wizard-**
click on Edit inbound rules
Click Add rule --> allow inbound traffic on port 8080 for Jenkins
Step 3: Access Jenkins using your instance's public IP
e.g: <public-ip>:8080
Step 1: Search IAM --> Click on Roles
Step 2: Click on Create role
Step 3: Select as shown --> Next
Step 4: in add permission block, just click on the next.
Step 5: Now create 3 roles with the names specified in the task 2.
- Devops-user
- Test-user
- Admin
Step 6: Now we can see the created users below...
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