RyanF.dev

RyanF.dev

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Hey, I’m Ryan — a cloud engineer writing about AWS, Terraform, and building infrastructure.

This site is where I document projects and share what I learn working with services like ECS, Fargate, Cognito, and Lambda. Take a look at the blog and projects to see what I’ve been building.

AWS Fargate: Networking Options for Tasks in Private Subnets

When your applications are running in containers on Fargate, there are a few options for getting internet access to them. If they can't be placed in public subnets, NAT Gateway or VPC Endpoints are common solutions for Fargate tasks in private subnets.

AWS Cognito: User Pools, Identity Pools and App Clients

AWS Cognito is an identity management platform for web and mobile applications for registering users, authentication and authorization. User Pools and Identity Pools are the two main components of Cognito, but play very different roles in the authentication and authroization process.

OAuth 2.0 Introduction for AWS Cognito Users

OAuth 2.0 is an industry standard authorization protocol. AWS Cognito implements OAuth 2.0

AWS Elastic Container Service Overview

Elastic Container Service lets you manage containerized applications at scale on AWS with several cluster modes and pricing options. Here's a quick refresher to go along with the ECS project.

AWS Lambda Python Deployments: Zipped, Layers, Docker Containers

Zipped deployments are still great but not for every use case so this is a look at layers and Lambda container images. Also a look at improvements to container images since their 2021 launch.

Terraform AWS: AWS Fargate Advanced Networking and Deployment

Create a VPC, split the network into public and private subnets and create the IAM Roles and Security Groups needed to begin taking a look at the networking options available for Fargate. Also take a look at different optimization, logging and monitoring settings.

Terraform AWS: User Authentication with Cognito, API Gateway, React

Create a serverless architecture for a React application that uses AWS Cognito, API Gateway, and Lambda for user registration and authentication. The application also takes a look at protected routes with React Router and getting retrieving user profile information from DynamoDB.

Terraform AWS: Secure Website Deployment with CloudFront, S3 and OAC

Create AWS infrastructure with Terraform then push an AstroJS web application to GitHub. After a successful build of Astro, GitHub Actions deploys the app to AWS.

Terraform AWS: Create a VPC with High Availability Networking

Create a stand alone VPC with already configured ingress and egress networking for deploying highly available servers across multiple private or public subnets.