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How to Deploy NodeJS to AWS Lambda with OpenTofu & GitHub Actions

If you're a software engineer in any tier, there's a good chance that you're already familiar with the language and syntax of JavaScript. It has a very low barrier for entry and that is one of its strongest suits and what makes it so widely adopted and popular.

In this article, you'll learn how to deploy a JavaScript application to AWS Lambda using the principles of GitOps and with the help of OpenTofu as the Infrastructure as Code and GitHub Actions for the CI/CD pipeline.

Stick till the end to find out how.

Supercharge Monorepo CI/CD: Unlock Selective Builds

Monorepo is the practice of storing all your code in a single repository, which can be beneficial for code sharing, dependency management, and version control.

However, there is no free lunch! As your codebase grows, managing builds become unavoidably complex and time-consuming. This build time is billed on your organization and it can get quite costly.

In this blog post, we'll explore the challenges of building only changed applications in a monorepo and discuss strategies to optimize your workflow with selective builds.

If this gets you excited, let's dive in!

How to Set Up Preview Environments for Pull Requests

Have you ever been frustrated at long merge queues? Did you ever wish there was a better and faster way to get feedback on your code changes and approval from your team members?

You may have also been on the other side of the table, reviewing pull requests and wishing there was a better way to actually test the revisions before approving it; giving you a sense of what it would feel and look like if it were to merge.

Netlify and other frontend hosting services have spoiled us with the ability to spin up a live instance of the application for each pull request for static files. But what about backend applications? How can we achieve the same and deploy our backend for every new proposed change in pull requests?

In this blog post, we will explore how to set up preview environments for each pull request using GitHub Actions and Kubernetes. This guide includes spinning up the application as a live instance with an internet accessible URL to preview and verify the changes before they find their way into the main trunk.

Integration Testing with GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a great CI/CD tool to automate the daily operations of your application lifecycle in many ways. It comes with a lot of features out of the box and even the ones that are missing are wholeheartedly provided by the community.

There are many great and brilliant engineers working daily to provide a fantastic experience for the rest of us.

In this blog post, you will learn how to perform your integration testing using GitHub Actions with all its dependencies and services spun up beforehand.

Stick around till the end to find out how.

Ory Kratos: Headless Authentication, Identity and User Management

Authentication flows are quite common in the modern day software development. What we want from one authentication has a lot of overlapping funcionality with what our other applications need. Even across different industries, you can still see the same patterns apply when it comes to Identity and User Management.

Ory Kratos solves all that user management under one umbrella of identity server, providing a clean headless API that you can ship your own UI with. It empowers you to customize the frontend, while preserving the ever-common backend that is backed by the robust SQL database.

In this blog post, we will cover the introduction and basics of Ory Kratos, as well as the steps and guides to write your integration client.

If you've always wanted to stop reinventing the wheel, reduce code duplication and to follow security best practices, then Ory Kratos and this blog post is for you!

GitOps Continuous Deployment: FluxCD Advanced CRDs

FluxCD is a powerful ecosystem of GitOps operators that can be enabled on-demand as per the requirement of your environment. It enables you to opt-in for the features you need and to disable the ones you don't.

As the complexity and requirement of your environment grows, so does the need for extra tooling to cover the implementation of the features you need.

FluxCD comes with more than just the support for Kustomization and HelmRelease. With FluxCD, you can also manage your Docker images as new versions get built. You can also get notified of the events that happen on your behalf by the FluxCD operators.

Stick till the end to see how you can take your Kubernetes cluster to the next level using advanced FluxCD CRDs.

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GitHub Actions Dynamic Matrix

GitHub Actions is a powerful CI/CD tool that allows you to automate your software development workflow. It provides a wide range of features and capabilities.

One of the features that I found very useful is the ability to define a matrix strategy for your jobs. This allows you to run the same job with different parameters, such as different versions of a programming language.

However, there are times when you need to define the matrix dynamically based on the output of a previous job. For example, you may want to run a job for each directory if and only if the directory contains a specific file or has changed since the last commit.

In this post, I will show you how to define a dynamic strategy matrix in GitHub Actions using a real-world example.