Technical requirements

You will need an active AWS subscription for this chapter’s exercises. AWS is the market’s most popular, feature-rich cloud platform. Currently, AWS is offering a free tier for some products. You can sign up for this at https://aws.amazon.com/free. This chapter uses some paid services, but we will try to minimize how many we use as much as possible during the exercises.

You will also need to clone the following GitHub repository for some of the exercises:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-DevOps-Practices-2e

Run the following command to clone the repository into your home directory. Then, cd into the ch7 directory to access the required resources:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-DevOps-Practices-2e.git \
  modern-devops
$ cd modern-devops/ch7

As the repository contains files with placeholder strings, you must replace the <your_dockerhub_user> string with your actual Docker Hub user. Use...