GitHub Actions: Terraform deployments with a review of planned changes

7 March 2024
 

  In the GitHub Actions: deploying Dev/Prod environments with Terraform blog I’ve already described how we can implement CI/CD for Terraform with GitHub Actions, but there is one significant drawback to that solution: there is no way to review changes before applying them with terraform apply. GitHub Actions has the ability to use Reviewing deployments… Read More »

Kubernetes: tracing requests with AWS X-Ray, and Grafana data source

2 March 2024
 

 Tracing allows you to track requests between components, that is, for example, when using AWS and Kubernetes we can trace the entire path of a request from AWS Load Balancer to Kubernetes Pod and to DynamoDB or RDS. This helps us both to track performance issues – where and which requests are taking a long… Read More »

AWS: VPC Prefix and the maximum of Pods on Kubernetes WorkerNodes

29 February 2024
 

 Each WorkerNode in a Kubernetes cluster can have a limited number of Pods running, and this limit is determined by three parameters: CPU: the total number of requests.cpu cannot be more than the number of CPUs on the Node Memory: the total number of requests.memory cannot be more than the Memory on the Node IP:… Read More »

Terraform: creating a module for collecting AWS ALB logs in Grafana Loki

24 February 2024
 

 An example of creating a Terraform module to automate log collection from AWS Load Balancers in Grafana Loki. See how the scheme works in the Grafana Loki: collecting AWS LoadBalancer logs from S3 with Promtail Lambda blog. In short, ALB writes logs to an S3 bucket, from where they are picked up by a Lambda… Read More »

Grafana Loki: LogQL and Recording Rules for metrics from AWS Load Balancer logs

24 February 2024
 

 I didn’t plan this post at all as I thought I would do it quickly, but it didn’t work out quickly, and I need to dig a little deeper into this topic. So, what we are talking about: we have AWS Load Balancers, logs from which are collected to Grafana Loki, see. Grafana Loki: collecting… Read More »

Karpenter: its monitoring, and Grafana dashboard for Kubernetes WorkerNodes

18 February 2024
 

 We have an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster with Karpenter which is responsible for EC2 auto-scaling, see AWS: Getting started with Karpenter for autoscaling in EKS, and its installation with Helm. In general, there are no problems with it so far, but in any case we need to monitor it. For its monitoring, Karpenter provides… Read More »

AWS: EKS Pod Identities – a replacement for IRSA? Simplifying IAM access management

16 December 2023
 

 Another very interesting new feature from the latest re:Invent is the EKS Pod Identities: a new ability to manage Pod access to AWS resources. The current state: IAM Roles for Service Accounts Before that, we used the IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) model, where in order to give a Pod access to, for example,… Read More »

AWS: CloudWatch – Multi source query: collecting metrics from an external Prometheus

13 December 2023
 

 Another interesting announcement from the last re:Invent is that CloudWatch has added the ability to collect metrics from external resources (see a very interesting report AWS re:Invent 2023 – Cloud operations for today, tomorrow, and beyond (COP227)). That is, we can now create graphs and/or alerts not only from the default metrics of CloudWatch itself,… Read More »

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service: RBAC Authorization via AWS IAM and RBAC Groups

25 November 2023
 

 We have two new projects in the Elastic Kubernetes Service (см. AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service: a cluster creation automation, part 1 – CloudFormation), each project lives in its own separate Namespace. In addition, there are two users, developers, who need to be given access to these two Namespaces, but only to Pods in them and… Read More »