Topics

AWS

AWS Go

AWS Service to simplify AWS SDK functions

Complete Ansible, Vagrant and AWS infrastructure

IaC example is a simple example of Infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate a development environment based on Vagrant and a staging, production environment on AWS. The installation creates a basic Symfony application along with a PostgreSQL, Solr and Redis services. Ansible helps automate all the infrastructure tasks and the bash scripts act as a wrapper for the Ansible commands.

Varnish 5.1 always online

Recently I posted about Varnish with secure AWS S3 bucket as backend and I wanted to have the “always online” enabled, meaning you can take the backend offline while serving from Varnish cache.

Varnish with secure AWS S3 bucket as backend

Serving static contents from S3 is common, but using Varnish in front is a bit tricky. Especially if you want to keep the bucket secure and only serve from Varnish, here is a simple Varnish file to solve this problem.

First secure your bucket via IP policy:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Id": "S3PolicyId1",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "IPAllow",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": "*",
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::example.bucket/*",
      "Condition": {
        "IpAddress": {
          "aws:SourceIp": [
            "5.6.7.8/32"  //varnish ip
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Explicit deny to ensure requests are allowed only from specific referer.",
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Principal": "*",
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::example.bucket/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringNotLike": {
          "aws:Referer": [
            "https://example.com/*"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Setup postgreSQL RDS using Ansible

Setting up PostgreSQL on RDS using ansible is a bit tricky because the main user on RDS is not a SUPERUSER and roles membership is not automatically granted for ex: “ERROR: must be member of role ..” is quite common. Here is a working solution:

By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. more information

The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.

Close