AWS Lighsail - A Different Perspective

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:

1. Instances

2. Databases

3. Disks

4. Docker containers and images

5. Snapshots

6. S3

7. Loadbalancers

8. DNS

All 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.