Hands-On: Moving Configuration Parameters to the SSM Parameter Store
Understand how to relocate WordPress application configuration values from EC2 user data to AWS SSM Parameter Store, including handling sensitive database credentials as SecureString. This lesson guides you through using AWS CLI commands to create, read, and overwrite parameters, ensuring your scalable application configurations are stored securely and managed efficiently.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Let’s move the configuration parameters from the EC2 user data into the SSM parameter store.
We learned the commands to do so already in the last lesson: