Microservices Overview

Lego Metaphor for Microservices

What Are Microservices? Microservices are a software development approach where a large, complex application is broken down into a collection of small, independently deployable services. Each service is responsible for a specific business capability and communicates with other services through APIs. This approach aims to improve scalability, maintainability, and flexibility of large and complex applications …

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Mount EFS To A Docker Container

I needed to mount my AWS EFS container to my Bitnami/Wordpress image manually. At this point, I already had an EFS that I had used before while experimenting with Fargate. I decided to simplify and reduce costs, and manually setup on an EC2 Instance. First Create a Docker Volume Then Run the Container Additional Considerations …

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How To SSH into EC2

SSH into EC2

If it has been a while since I’ve connected to my AWS Linux instance via ssh, I’ll sometimes find myself searching the web for these steps. I’m using a mac so these file locations apply to mac. If you need to connect to an existing EC2 and you have the .pem file (private key) If …

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