Yearly Archives: 2021

AWS: CloudTrail overview and integration with CloudWatch and Opsgenie

15 July 2021
 

 AWS CloudTrail is a service for auditing AWS accounts events and is enabled by default. It saves all actions that were done by a user, IAM role, or an AWS service via AWS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. CloudTrail will write information about every API call, log in to the system, services events, and… Read More »

AWS: Simple Email Service Bounce rate and monitoring with and Prometheus

14 July 2021
 

 Recently, AWS blocked our AWS Simple Email Service because of its low bounce rate. This can be checked in the AWS SES > Reputation Dashboard, our account currently has Under review status: After we’ve connected AWS Tech Support, they enabled it back, but we must solve the issue asap, and have to monitor AWS SES… Read More »

Kubernetes: Deployment Strategies types, and Argo Rollouts

12 July 2021
 

 One of the goals of the ArgoCD implementation in our project is to use new Deployment Strategies for our applications. In this post, we will observe deployment types in Kubernetes, how Deployment is working in Kubernetes and a quick example of the Argo Rollouts. Deployment Strategies and Kubernetes Let’s take a short overview of the… Read More »

AWS Hero: June, 2021 announce

11 June 2021
 

  Amazon Web Services has a special AWS Hero program for people, who made a significant contribution to the AWS community. Suddenly, I was nominated there and announced in June in the AWS Container Hero category. Mainly, because of this blog and AWS/Kubernetes/EKS posts. And by the way – I’m the very first AWS Hero… Read More »

DevOps IT Ring

8 June 2021
 

 💥9 June, 17:00 — IT Ring “DevOps” | Online/Offline. 6 speakers will come together in one IT Ring to determine the real functions of DevOps specialists and discuss what their cooperation with programmers should be. Topics: 📌 “Who are DevOps: people or tools?” 📌 “The perfect Architect – DevOps or developer?” 📌 “If you have… Read More »

DevSecOps Build-up from Cloud Builders

1 June 2021
 

  Cloud Builders Community invites to join the DevSecOps Build-up to discuss the best DevSecOps practices with experts from Microsoft, Pulumi, Stand Out In Tech, and Intellias. Speakers lineup: Continuously Implementing DevSecOps in AWS, — Volodymyr Shynkar, Senior Lead DevOps Engineer at Intellias. Join the fireside chat in Cloud AMA (ask me anything) format with… Read More »

ArgoCD: declarative Projects, Applications, and ArgoCD deploy from Jenkins

19 May 2021
 

 An application, cluster, or repository can be created In ArgoCD from its WebUI, CLI, or by writing a Kubernetes manifest that then can be passed to kubectl to create resources. For example, Applications are Kubernetes CustomResources and described in Kubernetes CRD applications.argoproj.io: [simterm] $ kubectl get crd applications.argoproj.io NAME CREATED AT applications.argoproj.io 2020-11-27T15:55:29Z [/simterm] And… Read More »

ArgoCD: Okta integration, and user groups

17 May 2021
 

 In the previous post ArgoCD: users, access, and RBAC we’ve checked how to manage users and their permissions in ArgoCD, now let’s add an SSO authentification. The idea is that we don’t add user accounts locally in the ArgoCD’s ConfigMap, but instead will use our Okta users databases and Okta will perform their authentication. And… Read More »

Github: Github Actions overview and ArgoCD deployment example

7 May 2021
 

 Github Actions actually is very similar to the TravisCI, but have much more closer integration with Github, and even its interface is included in the Github WebUI: So, let’s take a closer look at its abilities, how to use it, and in the following posts will deploy its self-hosted runners to a Kubernetes cluster and will… Read More »