I have been using Lambda functions to run some internal processes for quite a while now. It’s usually things like shutting down non-prod databases out of working hours, a couple of Slack bots… One of the ways to deploy Lambdas is zipping them and pushing them to S3. For some more advanced Node applications I’ve…
Last week we retired one of our products and merged it with a different one. Because of that, we wanted to redirect the old domain name to the new one keeping all the paths under it. I have used S3 for redirections before. It find it very simple to use and you can configure a…
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I first heard about Pi-hole a couple of years ago, discussing ad-blockers with a friend. It sounded interesting but totally forgot about it until a last weekend, when I saw someone mentioning it on Reddit, so I finally decided to give it a go. To try this I used an t3a.nano EC2 instance, the smallest…
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One of important points we need to consider when using Helm is managing secrets. There’s many ways we can do that, using Hashicorp Vault, the AWS Parameter Store… I find the combination of Mozilla SOPS and AWS KMS a great way to keep secrets as code safely and easily. AWS KMS AWS KMS allows us…
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What is Kubernetes Dashboard? It is a general-purpose, web-based UI for Kubernetes clusters. It allows users to manage and troubleshoot applications as well as manage the cluster itself. You can find more information here: Kubernetes documentation Kubernetes Dashboard on GitHub Deploying with Helm Pre-requisites Helm I’m using Helm 2 so in my case I need…
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One of the many things we need to do when we work with an EKS cluster is adding or removing users so they can interact with the system. On this post we will go through two different options. Adding an IAM user directly on Kubernetes. Managing users with IAM groups and roles. To do any…