Prasanth Kanikicherla

2 days ago

If you want to debug your application inside the container you could profit from a shell and some other installed tools, but distroless doesn't have any of that. The obvious answer is to use normal images for development and keep distroless to production.

Stop using Alpine Docker images

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Vitor Falcao

Very important point :D .... People generally forget when debugging that they are using distroless.

Very important point :D .... People generally forget when debugging that they are using distroless. But from your experience, do you see any concerns when we shift from lets say alpine on development to distroless in Production ? Any tips/steps to take care before switching.

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Very important point :D .... People generally forget when debugging that they are using distroless.

But from your experience, do you see any concerns when we shift from lets say alpine on development to distroless in Production ? Any tips/steps to take care before switching.

2 days ago

Setup Your Kubernetes Cluster on Bare Metal machines

Jie Liau

Nice work Jie.

Nice work Jie. I managed to install K8S on VMs before. How different do you think the steps would be for bare metal? Also, can you explain what does this module do ? br_netfilter

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Nice work Jie. I managed to install K8S on VMs before. How different do you think the steps would be for bare metal?

Also, can you explain what does this module do ? br_netfilter

2 days ago

“Top 5 DevOps certifications to have in 2022!”

Abdurahman Abukar

Probably add GCP DevOps Certification too to the list, will complete the big 3.

Probably add GCP DevOps Certification too to the list, will complete the big 3. Your list is a definite hit in the states.

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Probably add GCP DevOps Certification too to the list, will complete the big 3. Your list is a definite hit in the states.

Jan 6

How to achieve Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification in Google.

Want to share my recent experience attaining the “Professional Google Cloud Security Engineer” certification. There are not so many up to date courses online which could help with this certification, I have learned from the following couple of courses ., https://www.coursera.org/programs/learning-program-1apnd?collectionId=&currentTab=CATALOG&productId=mdlUSgjiEeuSxQ5EfP2d0Q&productType=s12n&showMiniModal=true

Google

3 min read

Nov 8, 2020

Spawn resources in different cloud providers using Terraform

Been a while since I have penned something down. Enjoying my break from all the certifications that I had to prep for, during the summer, anyhow. Introduction: Previously we have seen how to provision CosmosDB using Terraform. Provision CosmosDB in Azure using Terraform Recently we began exploring option to fulfil a requirement from project teams, to provision NoSql instances on demand…medium.com Now through this blog, I wanted to do a simple PoC (Proof of Concept)…

Kubernetes

7 min read

Spawn resources in different cloud providers using Terraform

Aug 24, 2020

Enforce policies on provisioning of cloud resources using OPA and Terraform

Introduction Previously I have written an article about how to provision CosmosDb in Azure using Terraform, link below -> Provision CosmosDB in Azure using Terraform Recently we began exploring option to fulfil a requirement from project teams, to provision NoSql instances on demand…medium.com Today, we will look into “how to enforce guidelines as policies” on these on demand provisioning of cloud resources. One such tool which can help us in enforcing what project teams can…

Azure

5 min read

Enforce policies on provisioning of cloud resources using OPA and Terraform

Jul 7, 2020

AWS Solution Architect Professional — Tips and Notes (July 2020)

Introduction I have recently given my AWS SAPro exam, passed with ‘920' score and want to share my experience and throw some light into the details of the examination along with some tips. First, to start off, this exam covers huge set of services in depth and you will still be…

AWS

5 min read

AWS Solution Architect Professional — Tips and Notes (July 2020)

Jun 17, 2020

Disaster Recovery strategies in Cloud or in general

These probably can be used for on premises solutions, but, I am more focusing with cloud examples in this blog. Introduction As part of my preparation for certain certifications, I stumbled across few options that are specified for disaster recovery. These can be tweaked to apply to any application or any…

AWS

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Disaster Recovery strategies in Cloud or in general

May 23, 2020

Setup MongoDb ReplicaSet with Authentication enabled, using docker-compose.

The solution is intentionally toned down to a basic POC (proof of concept) style to fit for all kinds of users. Please do not use my solutions as it is in production. Introduction A replica set; is nothing but a group of mongodprocesses maintaining the same data set. These instances provides…

Docker

6 min read

May 18, 2020

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — notes and 20 tips(May 2020)

Introduction I have recently given my CKA exam, passed with 100% and want to share my experience and throw some light into the details of the examination along with some tips. First, to start off, the exam uses Kubernetes version 1.18.2 as of today. There are some differences between previous versions…

Kubernetes

5 min read