Technical Report On AWS VPC And IaC

Feedbackyou are missing lab reports for Step 2, 3 and 4 labs. They are a crucial part of the IaC technical report. Submit them to meet requirements.Table Description automatically generatedStep 2: Interfacing With the Cloud—Command-Line InterfacesProvisioning cloud resources using the cloud provider’s internet portal is great for learning, setting up demos, etc. But it does not allow for automation of tasks, which is necessary for cloud engineers responsible for creating and maintaining corporate cloud deployment.Automation of tasks is crucial for ensuring continuity, repeatability, and consistency of administrative activities. Cloud resources are created and maintained by software implementing virtualization, SDN, etc., and this enables programmatic interfaces to their capabilities, making the infrastructure as code (IaC) paradigm a reality.As the BallotOnline cloud engineer, you will be responsible for automating cloud administration tasks. In this step, you will explore the most basic IaC tool—the scripting framework. With it, you can define lists of commands to be executed automatically on demand.Most cloud providers offer scripting interfaces for their cloud offerings. In this step, you will become familiar with the AWS command-line interface (CLI).You will complete the Lab 1 AWS CLI , in which you will first create an AWS Cloud9 development environment and then use AWS CLI in it to provision a virtual private cloud (VPC) and attach a tag to it. Then, you will create an internet gateway, tag it, and attach the gateway to your VPC. You will verify all the steps by inspecting provisioned resources in the AWS console.You will create a lab report as per the lab guide, describing the steps you’ve taken with all the screenshots requested in the guide. You will also describe how using scripting framework like AWS CLI can help BallotOnline in administering its cloud deployment.Step 3: Interfacing With the Cloud—Declarative Resource Definitions
An alternative to executing scripting command commands with options is to describe the desired effect of their execution—the desired configuration of resources. This is called declarative programming. Most cloud vendors make declarative frameworks available in their cloud offerings.The description of desired configuration is done by defining templates using some declarative notations. The most popular are YAML (“Yaml Ain’t Markup Language”) and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).JSON is a simple notation using nested key-value pairs to describe hierarchical structures of named attributes. You’ve seen examples of it as output from AWS CLI commands in the previous step.As before, you will use Amazon AWS as the exploration environment. Its declarative IaC feature is the CloudFormation (CF) framework.You will complete Lab 2 AWS CloudFormation in which you will become familiar with CF templates, and then use CF Template Designer to define a stack containing a VPC with an internet gateway (similar to the previous step), tag them, attach the gateway to the VPC, and provision the stack.You will create a lab report as per the lab guide, describing the steps you’ve taken with all the screen shots requested in the guide. You will also describe how using declarative IaC features can help BallotOnline in administering its cloud deployment.Step 4: Interfacing With the Cloud—Cloud APIsThe fact that cloud offering features are software-defined finds its ultimate reflection in rich cloud API libraries most cloud providers offer, so that customers can interact with their cloud deployments directly from the code of their software products. Cloud API libraries are available for popular programming languages and are often referred to as software development kits (SDKs).You will complete Lab 3 Cloud API in which you will become familiar with AWS SDK for the Python programming language. You will explore and install the Python SDK in your Cloud9 environment. Next, you will take a look at a Python script create_instance.py that provisions an EC2 instance and tags it. You will run the script and verify that the instance has been provisioned successfully.You will create a lab report as per the lab guide, describing the steps you’ve taken with all the screenshots requested in the guide. You will also describe how using cloud APIs can help BallotOnline in administering its cloud deployment.