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…

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…