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Creating a Webserver using Pulumi to Build and Manage Infrastructure

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 253
Rating: 4.4/5
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Description

Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code tool that supports multiple cloud providers. The key feature of Pulumi is that it allows you to describe your infrastructure using any of the popular programming languages it supports.

Using a programming language to describe your infrastructure allows you to re-use existing programming skills and develop infrastructure code using familiar tools (such as your favorite IDE) and established development workflows and practices.

In this lab, you will learn how to install and configure the Pulumi command-line tool, and you will learn how to use it to create a web server.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this beginner level lab, you will be able to:

  • Install the Pulumi command-line tool
  • Create and configure a new Pulumi project
  • Create an Amazon S3 bucket using Pulumi
  • Create an Amazon EC2 instance and configure it as a simple web server using Pulumi

Intended Audience

  • Cloud Engineers
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Developers 

Prerequisites

Knowledge and experience with the following will be beneficial, but is not required:

  • Concept of Infrastructure as Code
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon S3
  • The Linux Bash shell

The following courses can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

 

Updates

October 10th, 2023 - Resolved Node.js issue

November 1st, 2022 - Addressed an issue preventing the pulumi up command from working

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Covered topics

DevOps
Compute
High Availability
Amazon Web Services
Compute for AWS
Amazon EC2
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Lab steps

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  1. Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
  2. Connecting to the Virtual Machine using EC2 Instance Connect
  3. Installing Pulumi and Creating a Project
  4. Creating a Webserver with Pulumi

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