Inject PKI Certs Dynamically to Kubernetes Pods using Vault Agent Injector Imagine your app running on Kubernetes. Imagine you also have a ton of secrets to be pulled into the Pod before running the Pod. So you have a Vault agent injector running and pulling the secrets from there. Ahh…

Analyzing the terraforming cost with Infracost Terraform is one of the major IAC tools used across various Organizations. Well in my previous article I have explained how Atlantis and GitHub actions can be used to provision Infrastructure the GitOps way. But what about the cost? The GitOps method obviously made…

Terraform with GitOps using Atlantis (Pull request Automation)…. Do you use terraform in your Organisation? Or even for your personal Projects? If yes, by the end of this article you would change the way you manage and deploy terraform resources. Assume that you are the senior-most junior developer who has…

Configure vault PKI backend as a certificate provider in Cert Manager In my previous article, I’ve explained how to use let’s encrypt as a certificate issuer. in this article, we will be understanding how to use Hashicorp vault as a certificate issuer using vault PKI and cert-manager. The PKI secrets…

Deep Dive into Cortex Metrics.io Part II In Part I of this article we have understood the various components of Cortex and its use cases. In this Part II, we will configure Cortex with AWS S3 as its backend bucket storage and understand how metrics can be retained for longer…

Deep Dive into Cortex Metrics.io Part I Are your applications running on Kubernetes? Is it highly scalable and you are happy with the way it works? Wait a minute, How are you monitoring them? Ahh, Prometheus Right? Cool, Did you ever wonder how scalable and Highly available your Prometheus Cluster…

Effective cost savings with Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler Are you running your Kubernetes clusters in Production? Great, how many nodes are you running your cluster with? Personally, I’ve been running a Kubernetes cluster to host a simple self-service application with ~40 worker nodes initially. We determined this was necessary due to…

Log aggregation in Kubernetes using Grafana Loki Well, all of us have been using Grafana for quite a while. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore your metrics no matter where they are stored. In fact, I personally liked the colorful dashboards that almost support all the…