AWS - How to create virtual machine
*Shreyash Bhise | Aspiring Mern Stack Developer and DevOps enthusiast,
- In devops to create a virtual machine you basically request to one of your cloud provider.you would log into something called as aws console.By logging into aws console,what you do is you make a request to aws asking for virtual machine.In aws terminology it is called ec2 instance and what aws would do is aws in request would send you back something like an IP address and all the specification related to this virtual machine that you have requested.
developer -----------------> aws console ----------> aws-----------> IP address------->developer
- Amazon Elastic Compute cloud(Amazon EC2): When you're working with aws those server are virtual and the server you use to gain access to virtual server is called EC2.
launch--------->connect--------->use
- Importance of Automation:As a devops engineer you can automate the creation of your virtual machine or ec2 instance through.
- Aws cli
- Aws api (In python there is a module called boto3 and boto3 allow you to directly make a api call with aws)
- CFT (cloud formation templates)
- CDK(Aws cloud development kit)
- Terraform
