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Setting Up SSL on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Single Instances

Setting Up SSL on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Single Instances

Deploying applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies many aspects of running your web applications, but setting up SSL/TLS on single-instance environments can get a bit tricky. In this article, we'll explore two practical approaches to implementing SSL for your Elastic Beanstalk single instances. Why SSL on Single

The AWS Well-Architected Framework: A Complete Guide

The AWS Well-Architected Framework: A Complete Guide

As more companies pivot towards major providers like AWS in the cloud computing landscape, success isn't merely about using services—it's about using them correctly. This is precisely where the AWS Well-Architected Framework comes into play. This framework provides a comprehensive guide to help you evaluate

Automating Pi-hole Updates with Ansible

Automating Pi-hole Updates with Ansible

Managing multiple Pi-hole instances can become a time-consuming task, especially when it comes to regular updates. In this article, we'll explore how to use Ansible to automate the process of updating Pi-hole installations across your network. This approach will save you time and ensure consistency across all your

Analyzing CloudFront Logs with Amazon Athena

Analyzing CloudFront Logs with Amazon Athena

You are actively using the CloudFront service and noticed an increase in 4xx records in CloudFront statistics. This is usually due to incorrect configurations. However, for more details, you can open CloudFront logs and examine incoming requests. In this article, we will focus on how to perform log review most

Automated GitLab Artifact Cleanup with AWS Lambda

Automated GitLab Artifact Cleanup with AWS Lambda

GitLab CI/CD pipelines generate artifacts and build logs that accumulate over time, consuming valuable storage space. While these artifacts are crucial for debugging and deployment, keeping them indefinitely is neither practical nor cost-effective. Let's explore how to automate the cleanup process using AWS Lambda and EventBridge. AWS

Automated Java Application Deployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using GitHub Actions

Automated Java Application Deployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using GitHub Actions

When developing modern applications, having a robust CI/CD pipeline is crucial. In this guide, we'll walk through setting up automated deployments to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using GitHub Actions for both staging and production environments. Prerequisites * Java application with Maven * GitHub repository * AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment * AWS IAM

How to List AWS S3 Directory Contents Using Python and Boto3

How to List AWS S3 Directory Contents Using Python and Boto3

When working with AWS S3, you might need to get a list of all files in a specific bucket or directory. This is particularly useful for inventory management, backup operations, or content synchronization. In this article, we'll explore how to use Python and boto3 to list directory contents

How to Clone AWS Cognito User Pools Using Python

How to Clone AWS Cognito User Pools Using Python

Amazon Cognito is a powerful user authentication and authorization service provided by AWS. It helps you manage user sign-up, sign-in, and access control for your web and mobile applications. One common requirement when working with Cognito is the need to clone a User Pool, especially when setting up different environments

Status Update: New Chapters and Fresh Beginnings

Status Update: New Chapters and Fresh Beginnings

Dear readers, It's been a while since my last post in August 2023, and I owe you an explanation for my unexpected silence. Life has taken me on an incredible journey filled with major milestones and transformative changes. First and most precious, I became a parent in October

Publish static website with S3 + Github + Cloudfront

Publish static website with S3 + Github + Cloudfront

A static website is a type of website that consists of fixed content and resources that do not change dynamically. This means that the content is pre-built and remains the same for all users who visit the website. Static websites are typically written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and they

Hotlink Protection with AWS WAF + Cloudfront

Hotlink Protection with AWS WAF + Cloudfront

Introduction Hotlink protection is a security measure implemented on websites to prevent unauthorized usage of their content, particularly images, videos, or other media files. It aims to protect the website's bandwidth and server resources by restricting direct linking or embedding of those files on other websites. When hotlink

Create virtual machines with MacOS (m1 and m2 included)

Create virtual machines with MacOS (m1 and m2 included)

Introduction A virtual machine (VM) is a software emulation of a computer system that behaves like a separate physical machine. It enables the creation and execution of multiple operating systems or applications on a single physical computer. VMs provide isolation, allowing different software environments to run independently of each other.

How to use Lens IDE with two different AWS profiles

How to use Lens IDE with two different AWS profiles

What is Lens IDE? The Lens IDE is a desktop application with a user-friendly interface for managing and interacting with Kubernetes clusters. It offers a centralized dashboard to view and manage multiple clusters, provides real-time metrics and logs, allows for easy deployment and management of applications, and offers various other

Transfer your Gmail messages to Google Workspace Group

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Transfer your Gmail messages to Google Workspace Group

Introduction Google Groups is an online service provided by Google that allows people with shared interests or goals to communicate and collaborate in a group setting. It serves as a platform for discussions, email-based communication, file sharing, and organizing events within a group of individuals. There are several reasons why

Production Grade Keycloak Cluster Setup on EC2

Production Grade Keycloak Cluster Setup on EC2

Red Hat Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management (IAM) solution. It provides user authentication, authorization, and federation features in modern applications and services. Keycloak is designed to simplify the implementation of security protocols and standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and LDAP. Keycloak offers several

The connection between two different VPCs in AWS

The connection between two different VPCs in AWS

Introduction AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to create a virtual network in the cloud. It enables you to define and control a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources such as EC2

How to minimize Docker image size for Spring Boot Applications

How to minimize Docker image size for Spring Boot Applications

Introduction Image size matters in the cloud-native application world. No one wants to see a large image size in the image repository. In short, to remember why image size is important; 1. Efficient Distribution: Smaller image sizes allow for faster and more efficient distribution of containers across networks. 2. Faster

Building a Private AWS VPC with Terraform + S3

Building a Private AWS VPC with Terraform + S3

Introduction Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. It allows you to define and manage your infrastructure resources using a declarative configuration language. With Terraform, you can describe your desired infrastructure state in code, and Terraform will automatically provision and manage the resources needed to

Slack notification with SNS and Lambda

Slack notification with SNS and Lambda

Introduction Cloud notifications are messages cloud computing platforms use to communicate important information to their users. These notifications let users quickly respond to critical events or issues within a cloud service. They provide users with information about service quality, reliability, and availability. For example, a cloud storage service may notify

Basic Auth For CloudFront Distributions

Basic Auth For CloudFront Distributions

Introduction Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service part of AWS. CloudFront securely distributes static and dynamic web content, video and data to users worldwide at high speed. CloudFront provides fast load times by placing content in the closest location. (Edge Server) This gives users a faster and

EC2 Disk Usage Monitoring with CloudWatch

EC2 Disk Usage Monitoring with CloudWatch

Introduction Monitoring disk usage is crucial, especially in production systems. Maybe you realise, you can not find metrics indicating the disk usage in Cloudwatch. Let's solve this problem with Cloudwatch Agent! Create IAM Role In order to start the process, you need to grant your EC2 access to

K8S Monitoring, Application Debug with Pixie

K8S Monitoring, Application Debug with Pixie

Introduction I have been working professionally in the software industry for about 15 years. I have had the opportunity to work with many different tools in different companies, such as Appdynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog etc. Thanks to these applications, we can observe our application performance metrics, traces and bottlenecks.

Kubernetes Monitoring with kube-prometheus-stack

Kubernetes Monitoring with kube-prometheus-stack

Introduction You have stepped into the Kubernetes world, you have a shiny new cluster and created your Helm charts and deployed them. Suddenly, you realize some of your pods were restarting. There is nothing in the pod logs, and you don't know the problem. At this point, Prometheus

My Homelab Story

My Homelab Story

Introduction Years ago, this story started by installing a virtualization platform on a computer idle at home. My first goal was to solve the virtualization logic and examine how it works. Later on, it grew and became a complete home laboratory environment. Early Days One day, while reading an article

ArgoCD Setup on EKS

ArgoCD Setup on EKS

Introduction Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It provides a way to automate the deployment of applications to Kubernetes clusters using Git as the single source of truth for defining and managing the desired state of your applications. Argo CD can help you to manage