We’ll still work with eksctl but there is something to do on the AWS IAM side I’ve seen tons and tons of tutorials on how to create an EKS cluster with eksctl. …

I hope he learned from the experience. A few weeks ago, a junior DevOps got in touch with me almost in tears. He was desperately looking for a solution to an issue that he created unconsciously. What actually happened? He received some credentials in order to access a testing EKS…

I can not actually stop laughing… I read an article about AWS Beanstalk a few days ago. Yes, AWS Beanstalk documentation is not the best one. Yes, configuring some advanced features is not the easiest thing for beginners. Yes, there are some deployment failures without a clear and specific error…

Let’s be honest, developing web apps, and APIs and at the same time setting up, and maintaining the infrastructure is not often an easy task. I’ve been in that position both as a software engineer and a DevOps. …

Are you having a hard time deploying an Ingress Controller on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service? Ingress Controllers are essential in a Kubernetes infrastructure but deploying them on Cloud Providers’ Ecosystems can quickly drive you mad. I can see a folk trying to install a Kubernetes Ingress Controller on AWS for…

Do you really need Secret objects? One may respond “OF COURSE YES, Akintola !!!”. But hold on for a minute friend. A lot of people argue we should use Kubernetes Secrets for application needs. When I started working with Kubernetes I thought the need for Secret Objects was obvious. But…

This is the most important thing to consider before going to production on EKS. The Actual Problem After a week of commitment and hard work, analyzing, dockerizing, and building an entire Kubernetes cluster with Minikube, the time came to go to production. Everything was fine and working pretty well on my local. But…

Here is the reason and how to fix it once and for all! Context I’ve been using Ubuntu for a while. As a Linux distribution user using an Intel chip, building a docker image and pushing it on dockerhub for production (through a docker-compose file or on Kubernetes) is not a…

4 Tips to spin up an Elasticsearch instance with Docker. I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about the official Elasticsearch version hosted on the Docker hub. The reasons for their complaints are various and somehow real. However, trust me, there are ways to make Elasticsearch docker usage painless, easier…