Aws Lighsail - A Different Perspective

Introduction to AWS Lightsail in less than two hours! And many bonuses as well!

What you'll learn

Learn how to create and manage Lightsail instances

Learn about Lightsail Databases

Learn how to deploy Lightsail containers

Manage Lightsail storage, including S3 buckets

Requirements

Working knowledge of Linux, Docker,MySQL and Wordpress is preferable, but everything will be explained step-by-step even if you don't.

Description

AWS is a hot topic today, and will continue to be so in the future. It is a complex ecosystem with hundreds of services, and each of those services is a world for itself- they can be quite complex.AWS Lightsail is meant to offer some of the most sought-after AWS services, but in a different manner. Everything in Lightsail is simplified as much as it can be. You will learn how to work with these Lightsail resources:Instances DatabasesDisksDocker containers and imagesSnapshotsS3 LoadbalancersDNSAll of these will be shown with already shipped WordPress installation on Lightsail instance. We will work quite a bit in Linux command line, with mysql command line client, which we will use to access the built-in mysql WordpPress database. Then we will start the Lightsail database, and migrate the builtin database to a Lightsail one.I will aslo show how to add an additonal disk, provided by Lightsail, to a Linux instance. After that,we will install and use AWS CLI and it's lightsail module. And yes, we will use docker command line client to make a custom Docker image and store it in lightsail, then use that image to  start a container on Lightsail platform.Creating a snapshot of an instance will also be shown, and starting a loadbalancer and connecting it to two web servers as well.There are a lot of 10+ hours lectures available on online teaching platforms, but in today's fast-paced world, finding the time to watch it all is all but impossible. A  lot of compromises and thoughts were put in this course to make it fit in my 2-hours length goal, and a lot of hard decisions  made, but all the key topics are presented, and an effort is made so they can be remembered by students.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 The Instructor

Lecture 2 Prerequisites

Section 2: Working with Lightsail

Lecture 3 Let's Set Sail!

Lecture 4 Creating a Lightsail Instance

Lecture 5 Connecting to an Instance

Lecture 6 Wordpress and its Database

Lecture 7 Database External Access

Lecture 8 Adding More Storage

Lecture 9 Persistent Address and Storage

Section 3: Lightsail Databases

Lecture 10 Creating a Lightsail Database

Lecture 11 Migration to Lightsail Database

Lecture 12 Database Snapshots

Lecture 13 Configuration, Logs and Metrics

Section 4: Lightsail Containers

Lecture 14 Lightsail Containers

Lecture 15 Versions and Capacity

Lecture 16 Creating a Custom Docker Image

Lecture 17 Pushing Docker Image to Lightsail

Lecture 18 Deployment from a Stored Image

Section 5: Snapshots and Load Balancing

Lecture 19 Creating Instance Snapshots

Lecture 20 Adding a Loadbalancer

Developers and system administrators who want to take infrastructure management into their own hands and AWS administrators who want a simple way to create reasources