Promtail is (was) the lightweight log collector solution that sends the log over the HTTP to the remote backend. This remote backend is normally Loki but you can choose to send the logs to VictoriaLogs as well.
In this blog post, you will see the newer alternative to Promtail, Grafana Alloy. You will see what it is, why it's a good idea to migrate, and the how-to guide to make the jump with least friction.
Preview environment is where you see a live state of your changes from your pull request before being merged into the default branch. It gives you a look'n feel of what it would be like if you merged your changes.
Kubernetes on the other hand, is what powers the production setups. But that's not all it can do for you. I have spun up preview environments in Kubernetes with different technologies in the past.
And in this blog post, I will show you how to achive this using FluxCD Operator.
Knowing how long the exucution of jobs take is a crucial part of monitoring and proactive system administration.
Being able to measure, store and query this value over the course of your application lifecycle can help you identify bottlenecks, optimize your infrastructure and improve the overall performance of your application.
In this blog post, you are presented with three methods to achive this, starting from one where you have the access and ability to modify the source code, to the one where you have control over its runtime execution, and finally without control on either & using only the Kube State Metrics.
Read more to find out how.
Building and deploying static sites is rarely an issue these days. Most of the PaaS providers already have full support for your live and your preview environments and a clean integration with your favorite Git provider.
However, some organizations may choose to stick with big players like GCP for various reasons.
In this blog post, you will learn how to build your frontend and deploy your static files to GCP bucket using GitHub Actions and serve it behind GCP CDN.
In this approach we will employ OpenID Connect to authenticate GitHub Actions runner to GCP API to avoid passing hard-coded credentials (Actually, GCP calls this Federated Workload Identity but it is unsurprisingly based on OIDC).
If this sounds interesting to you, let's not keep you waiting any longer.
In this blog post, you will learn how to leverage GitHub Actions to deploy static files to the GitHub Pages of another repository.
This can be useful if you keep your source code in a private repository, but also, you may find additional reasons to need this setup.
Stick around till the end to find out how to do this with OpenTofu.
In this blog post I share my opinioated version of provisioning a Kubernetes cluster in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using nothing but Opentofu.
The principles discussed here are the ones I have learned while dealing with production setups at the same scale.
If you enjoy Kubernetes or want to learn more about GCP, this is for you.
Packer is a powerful tool to create immutable images, with support for various cloud providers.
In this blog post, I share how I built a NixOS 24 snapshot using Packer on Hetzner Cloud.
If you're a fan of NixOS or want to learn more about Packer, this post is for you.
Most of the modern software deployment these days benefit from containerization and Kubernetes as the de-facto orchestration platform.
However, occasionally, I find myself in need of some Ansible provisioning and configuration management.
In this blog post, I will share how to create Ansible dynamic inventory in a way that avoids the need to write hard-coded IP addresses of the target hosts.
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.
Discover how Azure Bastion can revolutionize your cloud security strategy. This comprehensive guide explains what a Bastion host is, why it's crucial for secure access to your Azure resources, and provides a step-by-step walkthrough for implementation.
You'll learn how to enhance your network security, simplify remote access, and automate Bastion deployment using tools like OpenTofu and Azure CLI. Dive in to unlock the full potential of secure, scalable cloud access for your organization.