Daily Archives: 05/20/2023

Loki: collecting logs from CloudWatch Logs using Lambda Promtail

20 May 2023
 

  Collecting logs in Grafana Loki with Kubernetes is very simple – we just launch Promtail in DaemonSet, configure it to read all data from /var/logs – and that’s it (in fact, we don’t specify anything at all – everything works out of the box from the Helm chart). But what about CloudWatch Logs? On my new… Read More »

Terraform: planning a new project with Dev/Prod environments

20 May 2023
 

  I need to plan the use of Terraform in a new project, and this includes planning the file structure for the project, how to create a backend (i.e. bootstrap) and other resources needed to get started, and think about working with multiple environments and AWS accounts. In general, this post was originally written purely… Read More »