Asshad Asshad

Setting up a WordPress site on AWS

This tutorial walks through setting up AWS infrastructure for WordPress, starting at creating an AWS account. We'll manually provision a single EC2 instance (i.e an AWS virtual machine) to run WordPress using Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL.

This tutorial assumes you're relatively comfortable on the command line and editing system configuration files. It is intended for folks who want a high-level of control and understanding of their infrastructure. It will take about half an hour if you don't Google away at some point.

If you experience any difficulties or have any feedback, leave a comment. 🐬

Coming soon: I'll write another tutorial on a high availability setup for WordPress on AWS, including load-balancing multiple application servers in an auto-scaling group and utilizing RDS.

Dockerized JMeter - A Distributed Load Testing Workflow

Supported Cloud Providers:

Amazon (https://aws.amazon.com/free/)
DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/join/)

Images used:

JMeter Server (https://hub.docker.com/r/hhcordero/docker-jmeter-server) aka "Slave"
JMeter Client Non-gui (https://hub.docker.com/r/hhcordero/docker-jmeter-client) aka "Master"

In the below keyboard shortcuts, I use the capital letters for reading clarity but this does not imply shift, if shift is needed, I will say shift. So ⌘ + D does not mean hold shift. ⌘ + Shift + D does of course.

Tabs and Windows

Function	Shortcut
New Tab	`⌘` + `T`
Close Tab or Window	`⌘` + `W` (same as many mac apps)
Go to Tab	`⌘` + `Number Key` (ie: `⌘2` is 2nd tab)
Go to Split Pane by Direction	`⌘` + `Option` + `Arrow Key`

Nginx Cheat Sheet

(from Understanding Nginx Server and Location Block Selection Algorithms - https://goo.gl/YyzshP)

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A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

	INTRO
	I get asked regularly for good resources on AWS security. This gist collects some of these resources (docs, blogs, talks, open source tools, etc.). Feel free to suggest and contribute.

	Short Link: http://tiny.cc/awssecurity

	Official AWS Security Resources
	* Security Blog - http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/
	* Security Advisories - http://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/
	* Security Whitepaper (AWS Security Processes/Practices) - http://media.amazonwebservices.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf
	* Security Best Practices Whitepaper - http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Security_Best_Practices.pdf

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	#!/bin/bash

	# According to:
	# How To Set Up Python 2.7.6 and 3.3.3 on CentOS 6.4
	# https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-python-2-7-6-and-3-3-3-on-centos-6-4
	yum -y update
	yum groupinstall -y 'development tools'
	yum install -y zlib-dev openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel
	yum install xz-libs
	wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.10/Python-2.7.10.tar.xz

	# Dont forget to set the env variable "certdomain", and either fill in your email below or use an env variable for that too.
	# Also note that this config is using the LetsEncrypt staging server, remove the flag when ready!

	Resources:
	sslSecurityGroupIngress:
	Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress
	Properties:
	GroupId: {"Fn::GetAtt" : ["AWSEBSecurityGroup", "GroupId"]}
	IpProtocol: tcp
	ToPort: 443