Use Skaffold to facilitate your development flow for Kubernetes applications.
Developing modern applications can be a process that involves many steps. Some of these include writing your code, testing, builds, local deployments, persisting your code in a Git repository, running CI/CD jobs, deploying to an environment.
Skaffold attempts to simplify…
Use kaniko as an alternative to Docker for building container images in Kubernetes clusters.
There are a couple of issues with using Docker to build custom images within a Kubernetes cluster.
First, running Docker in a container requires open communication with the Docker daemon running in Kubernetes nodes and that…
AWS Solutions Architect Associate study notes, exam pointers, and cheat sheet.
This material was gathered during my preparation for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam. I created and curated this cheatsheet with useful information that will be handy to review before taking the exam.
This article explores Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes that enables easier management, monitoring, & observability for clusters. It is a standalone application, and it is available on all platforms.
Lens is quite powerful providing us with real-time statistics, log streams, and troubleshooting capabilities out of the box while it’s open-source…
TL;DR Common patterns and Serverless Architectures on AWS
This article contains several patterns and common architectural choices for building software solutions leveraging mostly AWS serverless services.
Serverless services help us abstract our computing infrastructure so that we can focus solely on business logic.
Even more, When our app is not…
TL;DR Host a fully-managed Vault service on HCP in minutes without the operational overhead of managing it yourself.
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is a fully managed platform offering HashiCorp products as a service to automate infrastructure on any cloud.
Currently, HCP offers Vault in BETA so we can use this…
A dockerized python script that queries AWS EC2 API and generates an SSH config file ready to use.
Connecting to our instances with ssh can be time-consuming since we have to know every time the IP to use.
This isn’t an issue in environments where public IPs don't change since…
A guide to set up an AWS Lambda function with a Docker container as runtime using Amazon ECR and invoke it from Slack leveraging AWS Chatbot.
In this article, we are going to create an AWS Lambda function via a custom Docker image and then learn how we can invoke…
A guide to set up automatic infrastructure provisioning with Terraform Cloud & GitHub Actions. Leverage Infrastructure as code(IAC) and GitOps to automatically update your infra based on a GitHub repository.
In this tutorial, we are going to connect Terraform Cloud with a GitHub repository and leverage GitHub actions to provision…
A walkthrough on setting up GitHub repositories with Terraform and a workflow to validate your Terraform files with GitHub Actions
In this blog post, we are going to leverage Terraform’s Github provider to create a GitHub repository for a Github Organization.
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