A Beginner's Guide to AWS Cloud Architecture

This is a high-level overview about the most foundational and important pieces that make up the AWS cloud. Some prior knowledge of IP addresses would be beneficial, but not crucial.…

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Mar 17, 2021 5 min read

Nima Binayifaal

AWS

How to SSH Reverse Tunnel to a Remote DB Server in an AWS Private Subnet using an EC2 Bastion Jump Host

Do you have publicly inaccessible database that you need to SSH into? Using SSH Reverse Tunneling, aka SSH Reverse Port Forwarding, you can securely connect to the database without directly opening it up to a vector of attack.…

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Dec 07, 2020 4 min read

Nima Binayifaal

AWS

Easily Deploy a Minecraft Server onto GCP using Terraform & Docker

Traditionally, bringing up a Minecraft server involves manually installing all separate components and spending too much time in the command line. Using the Terraform recipe from this blog post we can easily bring up our own server without worrying about the granularities of manual deployment.…

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Jun 08, 2020 7 min read

Nima Binayifaal

DevOps