Hi, I’m DevOps Engineer at Tikal Knowledge. In this tutorial, I will show how to: Use OpenID Connect within your Github workflows to authenticate with Amazon Web Services. The reason behind that is security: Avoid storing long living AWS credentials (access_key_id and secret_access_key) in Github as a secrets. 2. Improve…

Hi, I’m DevOps Engineer at Tikal Knowledge. In this tutorial, I will show how to: Trigger Github Actions Workflow using PR comments like ‘/format’ (ChatOps). I will use slash-command-dispatch for this. 2. Format the python code with PEP8 as part of PR and re-commit it again. Github Actions Published guides: …

Hi, I’m DevOps Engineer at Tikal Knowledge. The main purpose of this guide is to show you how to build CI with Github Actions which is not limited by capacity (resource) and able to run multiple CI workflows in parallel. In this tutorial, I will show how to: Run self-hosted…

Hi, I’m DevOps Engineer at Tikal Knowledge. In this tutorial, I will show how to: Deploy Actions Runner Controller (ARC) to Kubernetes and connect it with your GitHub repo. Scale automatically your self-hosted runners count up to the total number of pending jobs in queue. The main purpose of this…

Hi, I’m DevOps Engineer at Tikal Knowledge. In this tutorial, I will show how to: Deploy self-hosted-runner to Kubernetes and connect it with your GitHub repo. Redeploy Nginx server on your k8s cluster with every change in nginx/deployment.yaml, which pushed to Github repo. Every change in configuration of deployment.yaml on…

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…