In todays world of distractions and attention seeking algorithms, like many people, I find it hard to keep on top of the information that really matters such as finances, consumption, and many other metrics that are hard to keep track of. To curb this, I've started to build my own Grafana project, allowing for the information that matters to be displayed prominently in our house. I hope that having this information being displayed without the need for me to remember to 'check in' on metrics will help everyone in the household be more mindful of important metrics.
EKS does not offer much in the way of a management console for Kubernetes. While there are some good Kubernetes GUI options out there, in some instances having a web version can be useful. This post describes how to set up Kubernetes Dashboard with full permissions.
The benefits of using a Monorepo for storing code are well known at this point, but consolidating multiple existing repositories while keeping change history from each can be challenging. This post outlines how it can be done, with the finished repository containing the histories of any number of previously separate repositories, and only including the files that are required.
Github actions provide a great way of doing small tasks through to full CI/CD work. This post discusses how to build a container and get a deployment rollout happening for a deployment on EKS.
Kubernetes RBAC API is a powerful tool that allows for some fine grained control over what users can do within a cluster. This post describes how you can create a new AWS IAM user, add them to an EKS cluster and assign them RBAC permissions.
While Github's Package Registry and AWS ECR are viable options for storing your private docker containers, price can end up being an issue in both cases, especially if you deploy often and have containers that can be on the large side. Setting up a private registry on an EC2 instance is a relatively quick process and provides a fixed cost for usage.
Using EFS (or NFS when not on AWS) is a great way of providing persistance to services. There are many benefits over using the more traditional style of pre-allocated persistent block storage. This post describes how to get EFS working within EKS and some of the benefits NFS style storage brings.
Adding VPN access your a Kubernetes cluster allows for internal users to use a cluster in a much more traditional manner, much like an intranet. This post describes how to set up OpenVPN to allow this kind of access.
