Hi, I’m DevOps Engineer at Tikal Knowledge. In this tutorial, I will create a simple and practical example of how to provision EC2 instance with Github Actions and Terraform. I will use workflow_dispatch type of workflow which is triggered manually by the user, using Terraform Github action from HashiCorp. This…

In the previous two posts, we discussed how to run Terraform on Cloudify Manager using different options, how to create a blueprint and make it generic. In this article, we will focus on how to provision the Kubernetes cluster (EKS). Running Terraform with Cloudify In this article, we will be using some basic functionalities such as:medium.com Running Terraform with Cloudify (part 2) In the previous article Running Terraform with Cloudify Part 1 we have covered how to create a blueprint for a…medium.com

The purpose of this tutorial is to deploy a ‘simple’ application to EKS Fargate. In this tutorial, I will try to be practical as possible and deploy ‘httpbin’ to EKS Fargate. First, a regular EKS cluster with node groups will be created, then I will add the Fargate profile as…

I am a DevOps engineer at Cloudify.co, in this post, I will share my thoughts on how to properly set requests and limits for your workloads on Kubernetes. So, why should we care about requests/limits at all? Setting the right resource requests and limits for your workloads is important for stability and cost efficiency. If your Pod resource sizes…

I am a DevOps engineer at Cloudify.co and I will share in this post my experience in relation to automation of Vault backup creation using Kubernetes CronJob. This post is a continuation of the previous post: https://igorzhivilo.com/vault/scheduled-backup-vault-secrets/ The repository with all the code: https://github.com/warolv/vault-backup What is HashiCorp’s Vault? A vault is a tool for…

I am a DevOps engineer at Cloudify.co and I will share in this post my experience related to automation of Vault backup creation using Jenkins scheduled job and simple python script which I built to create dump of vault secrets. Let’s start. What is HashiCorp’s Vault? A vault is a tool for securely accessing…

As a DevOps engineer at Cloudify.co, I am working on the migration of the CaaS (Cloudify as a Service) solution to Kubernetes (EKS), which includes monitoring of multiple critical endpoints with Prometheus/Grafana. I will describe in this post how I do it. Prerequisites Existing k8s cluster, EKS in my case. Prometheus/Grafana…

I am a DevOps/Software engineer (at Cloudify.co), and I started preparation for the CKA Kubernetes exam. In this series, I will share some exercises I find useful during my preparation in order to help you better prepare for the CKA exam. …

As a DevOps engineer at Cloudify.co, I am working on the migration of the CaaS (Cloudify as a Service) solution to Kubernetes (EKS), previously it was running directly on AWS’s EC2 instances and my main goal was to migrate it to Kubernetes, which includes: Helm Chart creation for Cloudify as…