Daily Archives: 07/07/2024

EcoFlow: monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

7 July 2024

In continuation of the topic with Підготовка до зими 2024-2025: ДБЖ, інвертори, та акумулятори (in Ukrainian). Surprise – there’s even a Prometheus exporter for the EcoFlow – berezhinskiy/ecoflow_exporter! It looks really cool. I launched it, looked at it, and ran to write this post. It can be run in a couple of clicks with Docker… Read More »

AWS: Kubernetes and Access Management API, the new authentication in EKS

7 July 2024

Another cool feature that Amazon showed back at the last re:Invent in November 2023 is changes in how AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service authenticates and authorizes users. And this applies not only to the cluster’s users, but also to its WorkerNodes. I mean, it’s not really a new scheme (November 2023) – but I just now… Read More »

AWS: RDS IAM database authentication, EKS Pod Identities, and Terraform

7 July 2024

We’re preparing to migrate our Backend API database from DynamoDB to AWS RDS with PostgreSQL, and finally decided to try out AWS RDS IAM database authentication, which appeared in 2021. IAM database authentication, as the name implies, allows us to authenticate to RDS using AWS IAM instead of the login-password from the database server itself.… Read More »