Category Archives: HOWTO’s

AWS: Cost optimization – an overview of Bills, Cost Explorer, and the costs control

23 June 2024
 

 Let’s continue our series on cost optimization in AWS. Previous posts: AWS: cost optimization – purchasing RDS Reserved Instances AWS: Cost Explorer – costs checking on the CloudWatch Logs example AWS: Cost optimization – services expenses overview and traffic costs in AWS Now that we understand what we pay for in AWS, let’s see what… Read More »

Kubernetes: monitoring Events with kubectl and Grafana Loki

23 June 2024
 

  In Kubernetes, in addition to metrics and logs from containers, we can get information about the operation of components using Kubernetes Events. Events usually store information about the status of Pods (creation, evict, kill, ready or not-ready status of pods), WorkerNodes (status of servers), Kubernetes Scheduler (inability to start a pod, etc.). Kubernetes Events… Read More »

AWS: Karpenter and SSH for Kubernetes WorkerNodes

23 June 2024
 

  We have an AWS EKS cluster with WorkerNodes/EC2 created with Karpenter. The process of creating the infrastructure, cluster, and launching Karpenter is described in previous posts: Terraform: Building EKS, part 1 – VPC, Subnets and Endpoints Terraform: Building EKS, part 2 – an EKS cluster, WorkerNodes, and IAM Terraform: Building EKS, part 3 –… Read More »

Pritunl: launching a VPN in AWS on EC2 with Terraform

23 June 2024
 

  I’ve already written a little about Pritunl before – Pritunl: Running a VPN in Kubernetes. Let’s return to this topic again, but this time on EC2 in AWS, without Kubernetes. So, what we need to do is to run some kind of VPN service for the project to have access to Kubernetes APIs/Kubernetes WorkerNodes/AWS… Read More »

Dependabot: GitHub, and Terraform versions management

30 May 2024
 

  Over time, as the project grows, sooner or later the question of upgrading versions of packages, modules, and charts will arise. You can do it manually, of course, but only up to a certain point, because eventually you simply won’t be able to physically monitor and update everything. There are many solutions for automating… Read More »

AWS: VPC Flow Logs, NAT Gateways, and Kubernetes Pods – a detailed overview

5 May 2024
 

 We have a relatively large spending on AWS NAT Gateway Processed Bytes, and it became interesting to know what exactly is processed through it. It would seem that everything is simple – just turn on VPC Flow Logs and see what’s what. But when it comes to AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service and NAT Gateways, things… Read More »

GitHub Actions: working with Reusable Workflows

23 March 2024
 

 In the post GitHub Actions: Deploying Dev/Prod Environments with Terraform I’ve already touched on the topic of GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions a bit, so it’s time to learn more about it. What needs to be done: currently in my project, we write Workflow files in each repository separately. However, since all processes… Read More »

Arch Linux: fixing the “yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13” error

17 March 2024
 

 After the latest Arch Linux upgrade, Yay reported the following error: yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory First, let’s check if we have the libalpm library file, and which version: $ sudo find / -type f -name “*.so*” | grep libalpm /usr/lib/libalpm.so.14.0.0 So, we… Read More »

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 »