AWS Classroom Series – 02/Apr/2021

Creating VPC using AWS CLI

• Lets create a IAM user to configure aws cli

aws configure
Enter access key , secret key and region(us-west-2)

• To create IAM user Refer Here
• AWS CLI are the commands to create resources in AWS by using Commands
• To find command
  • approach 1: google
  • approach 2: aws cli commands are in the form of aws service action args
    • Refer Here for the aws cli reference
    • VPC belongs to a service ec2 Refer Here
    • Now find the commands for vpc
• AWS CLI has two kinds of arguments
  • required arguments
  • optional arguments
• Since we want to create vpc Refer Here
• Lets create vpc
• Now lets make a note of vpc id.
• Other approach is to query for vpc id and in aws generally most of the query commands will be in form of describe-<resource> Refer Here for describe vpcs
• We can query the cli outputs
• To do that first we need to understand
  • JSON Refer Here
• We will have one session on JMES Path
• Exercise: Write aws cli to
  • create a vpc with 4 subnets (you can manually copy id)
  • Attach the internet gateway to vpc
  • Make two subnets public and two subnet private.