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Compass True North

·Aug 31, 2022

Halving Kubernetes Compute Costs With Vertical Pod Autoscaler

A Focus on Features Compass has been growing rapidly over the last couple of years. As we became the largest independent brokerage in terms of 2021 closed sales volume as of March 25, 2022, our tech team has been focusing heavily on shipping products to improve agent productivity. From a compute platform perspective, the…

Kubernetes

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Halving Kubernetes Compute Costs With Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Halving Kubernetes Compute Costs With Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Kubernetes

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Compass True North

·Jul 13, 2022

Governing Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters with Kyverno

“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…

Kyverno

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Governing Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters with Kyverno
Governing Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters with Kyverno
Kyverno

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Level Up Coding

·Jul 11, 2022

Installing & Exploring the Kube-Prometheus Project

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…

Kuberentes

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Installing & Exploring the Kube-Prometheus Project
Installing & Exploring the Kube-Prometheus Project
Kuberentes

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Level Up Coding

·May 15, 2022

5 Steps to an Authenticated API with Serverless Framework, Auth0, and Go

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…

Go

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5 Steps to an Authenticated API with Serverless Framework, Auth0, and Go
5 Steps to an Authenticated API with Serverless Framework, Auth0, and Go
Go

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FAUN Publication

·Apr 5, 2022

Create an EKS Cluster with… Go?

“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…

Pulumi

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Create an EKS Cluster with… Go?
Create an EKS Cluster with… Go?
Pulumi

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Cloud Tidbits

·Feb 27, 2022

How I Monitored My Minikube Cluster with DataDog & Terraform

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…

Kubernetes

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How I Monitored My Minikube Cluster with DataDog & Terraform
How I Monitored My Minikube Cluster with DataDog & Terraform
Kubernetes

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Cloud Tidbits

·Dec 27, 2021

How to Render a K8s Pod Unavailable With Readiness Probes

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…

Kubernetes

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How to Render a K8s Pod Unavailable With Readiness Probes
How to Render a K8s Pod Unavailable With Readiness Probes
Kubernetes

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Cloud Tidbits

·Jul 28, 2021

Terraform: Process Kinesis Data Stream Records with AWS Lambda

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…

Terraform

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Terraform: Process Kinesis Data Stream Records with AWS Lambda
Terraform: Process Kinesis Data Stream Records with AWS Lambda
Terraform

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FAUN Publication

·May 27, 2021

10 Steps to Deploy and Configure Jenkins on AWS with Terraform

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. …

AWS

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10 Steps to Deploy and Configure Jenkins on AWS with Terraform
10 Steps to Deploy and Configure Jenkins on AWS with Terraform
AWS

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Cloud Tidbits

·Feb 28, 2021

Step by Step with Pictures: Forward and Query your AWS Lambda Logs with Datadog

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:

Datadog

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Step by Step with Pictures: Forward and Query your AWS Lambda Logs with Datadog
Step by Step with Pictures: Forward and Query your AWS Lambda Logs with Datadog
Datadog

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