terraform-excuses-to-use

Learning Terraform by making myself automate things

Subproject ideas

1. exampro - Andrew Brown's marvelous 10-hour AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate course. This covers the fundamental services of AWS in prep for the SA-A exam. Focus here will be on the numerous follow-alongs, with freedom to stray into other cool stuff as I feel inclined.

   • S3 follow along
     • create buck and upload files

2. benchmark-emr-vs-db - Sort of a personal hobby horse. I intuit that Apache Spark (and consequently EMR) is probably overused in the wild, because of multiple work projects where Spark was used as a fancy [not R]DBMS. However I lack intuition for how much data is really big enough to be worth using Spark like this -- especially since purpose built DBs or DWs such as Redshift are so much more performant than when Spark first showed up.

3. aws-samples - In support of other more meaningful subprojects, such as the preceding benchmark task, I will be following a lot of AWS tutorials. Sometimes they're automated with CloudFormation. Why not port the setup in order to learn Terraformc (and create more personalized templates for the more integrative subprojects)?

• /simple-phonebook-web-application - Aurora migration - Simple port of [a CF template] (https://github.com/aws-samples/simple-phonebook-web-application)