“Can you do it with Kyverno?” At Compass, our DevOps teams do their best to start our developers off on the right foot. We do this by establishing the development lifecycle best practices into a Golden Path. But what good is a Golden Path without guardrails that prevent our developers from getting stuck in the mired…

Looking for a Kubernetes cluster monitoring stack? The kube-prometheus project makes it easy to install the Prometheus Operator along with Grafana Dashboards and Prometheus rules. As a prospective user, I've documented my experience installing and exploring the kube-prometheus stack on my Minikube cluster: follow along to quickly grasp the high-level…

Are you interested in Serverless but haven’t tackled authentication? This guide can be of help as it provides a step-by-step demonstration from zero to an Authenticated API with the help of Serverless Framework and Auth0. Step 0: Installation and Prerequisites To follow along, install the Serverless Framework CLI as well as the AWS CLI. Your…

“Build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications and infrastructure using familiar languages, tools, and engineering practices.“— pulumi.com Some Context Coming from a Terraform and CloudFormation background, it’s a bit of a twist to write IaC with a more familiar development language. With Terraform & the Hashicorp suite, one has to learn HCL…

Why monitor a minikube cluster? It’s a nice exercise of going through the process to set up DataDog & explore the K8s metrics offerings. This article is a walkthrough of my experience to: Get set up with the latest minikube Deploy a Sample Application Create a DataDog (Trial) Account Install…

The Kubernetes documentation defines Readiness Probes with a potential application-level requirement: an application might need to load large data or configuration files during startup or depend on external services after startup. This article walks through a simple proof of concept of the latter use case, depending on an external service…

AWS Lambda can be used to process Kinesis Data Stream Records in an event-driven architecture. Drop a record into a Data Stream, and you can automatically trigger your lambda to process the event! Below we walk through the steps to stand up a proof-of-concept with Terraform. In this article, we’ll…

Jenkins.io has a great tutorial on how to stand up a Jenkins on AWS — but it requires manual configuration through the console. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use Terraform to automate the deployment of your Jenkins services with a single command. …

I recently posted an article on how to get set up with Datadog’s AWS Integration and successfully received metrics. Today I’ll be working on forwarding over my CloudWatch logs to Datadog. Step By Step with Pictures: Installing the Datadog AWS Integration and Setting up a Dashboard You too can use Datadog to monitor your applications!medium.com All of the documentation for this set up is located in the following places: