Deploying a Django webapp: ECS with AWS Copilot vs. EC2 with Kamal/Terraform
2023-08-28 | infrastructure, devops, kamal
TL;DR # Coming from Kubernetes, my expectations were high for ECS + Fargate to be an “easy way” to deploy stuff. ...
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Linode Kubernetes cluster with Pulumi & Python
2023-08-15 | kubernetes, infrastructure, devops, pulumi
Despite reading through the docs on Pulumi Outputs a few times, getting a grasp of how to deal with outputs can be difficult. ...
Self-hosted Kubernetes homelab with K3s, Flux GitOps and ngrok
2023-07-27 | kubernetes, infrastructure, devops
Purpose # Cloud infrastructure is nice and all, but sometimes you just want a simple kubernetes cluster to play around with as cheaply as possible, taking advantage of some hardware you already have laying around. ...
AWS PostgreSQL 15.2: RDS vs. Aurora Performance comparison
2023-06-17 | aws, infrastructure, databases
This article is inspired by the fantastic post by Avinash Vallarapu on a detailed comparison and performance benchmark between Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS PostgreSQL. ...
Experiences with AWS App Runner
2023-06-05 | infrastructure, devops
What is AWS App Runner? # In brief, AWS App Runner is a (highly) managed service AWS offers to run your applications with as little infrastructure knowledge and maintenance as possible. ...
Managing aws_auth ConfigMap with the AWS EKS Terraform module
2023-03-16 | aws, kubernetes, infrastructure, devops
What is the aws_auth and why does it exist? # Unlike AKS, by default AWS EKS uses AWS authentication tokens for managing access to the cluster. ...
Managing k8s resources on AWS EKS with Terraform
2023-03-13 | aws, kubernetes, infrastructure, devops
Rationale # Terraform allows you to create all the cloud resources you could want with just a few commands, however it usually is paired with other tools like Ansible to then apply configurations on those resources and bring up applications. ...
Searching across workflow logs with gh-actions-log-search
2023-02-18 | infrastructure, devops
What problem are we solving for? # With some upcoming deprecations in GitHub Actions - for example the deprecation of save-state and set-output commands on May 31st 2023 - I wanted to update my workflows in advance before they would start failing as a result of these deprecations. ...
Anti-aliasing for Garmin watch faces
2023-01-19 | development
What is anti-aliasing? # Anti-aliasing is a technique used to smoothen the edges of a rendered shape on a computer screen. ...
Multi-domain OAuth2 Proxy configuration with Redis cookie storage
2022-11-28 | kubernetes, infrastructure, devops, oauth
See previous article on OAuth2 Proxy configuration with nginx-ingress. ...