Technical requirements

This chapter provides a few practical examples to demonstrate a few concepts. To use them, here are some requirements to have installed on your environment:

• A non-production AWS account
• A Bash terminal; if you don’t have a Linux host, you can use AWS CloudShell
• The AWS command line interface (AWS CLI); AWS CloudShell has the latest version of the AWS CLI pre-installed (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html)
• Terraform (https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws-get-started/install-cli)
• Git (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)
• Go programming language (https://go.dev/doc/install)
• Docker engine (https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/)
• Docker compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/linux/)
• Packer (https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/tutorials/docker-get-started/get-started-install-cli)

Important note

We will use a Go...