Technical requirements

In this section, we will create an AWS cloud setup, which will be used to perform hands-on exercises in this and subsequent chapters. You can use any cloud provider of your choice, but to introduce some variety in this book, I have selected AWS for Part 2 and Google Cloud for Part 3. You can also use minikube for the exercises, but you will need at least a quad-core processor and 16 GB or more of RAM assigned to minikube for smooth, lag-free operations.

Setting up the environment

Let’s go!

1. Create an AWS account. If you don’t already have an AWS account, then it’s time to sign up with AWS using https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start/email.
2. Set up the AWS CLI:
   1. Install the AWS CLI using the steps provided at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html.
   2. Configure the AWS CLI using the steps provided at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html.
3. Install...