AWS Fargate is another serverless solution from Amazon that takes over infrastructure management, saving the user the need to spend time configuring EC2 instances, operating systems, container management systems, etc. In general, when I was getting acquainted with Fargate, I found a great video from AWS re:Invent 2022, which very well explained (and showed)… Read More »
Instance metadata (IMDS – Instance Metadata Service) – data about an EC2 instance, such as information about AMI, IP, hostname, etc. You can also add User Data to Instance Metadata to store some parameters, which can then be retrieved inside the instance. See Instance metadata and user data and Instance metadata categories. From the beginning of the… Read More »
We continue our engagement with GitLab and its deployment in Kubernetes. The first part – GitLab: Components, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Launching from the Helm Chart in Minikube, and now let’s get ready to deploy to AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service. What will we do and where: deploy to AWS from the Helm-chart, with some test env Kubernetes… Read More »
As GitLab recently changed the policy of providing free access, and now only 5 users will be available for the Free subscription, we decided to move to the self-hosted version. In general, they have interesting terms with the license: the price depends on the number of users, you can buy it for at least… Read More »
The very useful thing is to monitor how efficiently the cluster is being used, especially if applications are deployed by developers who do not delve into requests much and set inflated values ”in reserve”. A reserve, of course, is needed – but simply requesting resources is a bad idea. For example, you have a… Read More »
The last time I worked with Loki when it was still in Beta, and it looked much simpler then than it does now. In the new project, there is no logging system at all, and since we all love the Grafana stack, we also decided to use Loki for logging. Although to be honest,… Read More »
We have Grafana Loki for logs and need to connect an AWS IAM Role with AWS IAM Policy, which gives access to an AWS S3 bucket where Loki’s chunks and indexes will be stored. IAM roles for Kubernetes Pods will work in the same way as IAM roles to EC2 instances: a process inside… Read More »
AWS VPC Flow Logs allow you to log traffic information between network interfaces in a VPC. Further, these logs can be stored in AWS S3 or sent to AWS CloudWatch Logs, while enabling traffic logging does not affect the performance of the network interface in any way. Let’s briefly review the basic concepts, and… Read More »
Continuing with the theme of the AWS Trusted Advisor service, let’s see how can we configure notifications about new findings. The first part: AWS: Trusted Advisor, part 1 – its features overview. To have notifications, we can use Trusted Advisor metrics from the CloudWatch, see their list on the Trusted Advisor metrics and dimensions page.… Read More »
AWS Trusted Advisor is another service that allows monitoring your accountant its resources in use for their cost-effectiveness, performance, security, and more. Keep in mind, that Trusted Advisor’s checks that are available for you depend on the AWS Support Plan of your account. вашего аккаунта. Fortunately, we have Premium so I’m able to how all… Read More »