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The Hidden Risks of Unstructured Automation
Picture this: Your team adopts Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure. Initially, everything seems flawless—rapid deployments, reproducible environments, fewer human errors. But over time, cracks begin to appear. A developer applies a change without reviewing terraform plan, and suddenly, AWS costs skyrocket. An AI tool generates a seemingly perfect Terraform module, but it contains a misconfigured…
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Building robust EKS clusters
In the world of cloud-native applications, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has emerged as a powerful platform for managing containerized workloads. However, with great power comes great responsibility—especially when it comes to security. Ensuring the safety of your EKS clusters is not just a best practice; it’s a necessity. A single misconfiguration can expose your…
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AWS AppStream 2.0 with Azure Entra ID for a Dynamic Virtualized Application
Introduction This summer, I had the opportunity to collaborate with an IT consulting firm to address a unique challenge posed by one of their online education clients. The client sought a comprehensive proof of concept (PoC) that involved virtualizing a Windows-based application using AWS AppStream 2.0, integrated seamlessly with Azure Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory)…
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DevOps Engineer – role definition and responsibilities
A DevOps Engineer plays a crucial role in modern software development, acting as a bridge between development teams and IT operations to ensure smooth, efficient, and reliable code releases. These professionals often come from diverse backgrounds: some are developers who have developed an interest in deployment and network operations, while others, like myself, transition from system administration…
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Basic Kubernetes features for a dynamic orchestrator of containers
There are two utilities in Kubernetes that allow flexibility to applications within containers, such as Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Cluster autoscaler. I will try to explain a brief overview of each of them. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) is a Kubernetes feature that allows you to automatically scale the number of pods (a set of…
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Self-Host Azure DevOps Agent on AKS
Azure DevOps requires compute to run pipelines. It can be hosted by Microsoft (as Azure DevOps service bill) or self hosted. Since the Docker deprecatio as running execution inside Kubernetes, you can not use docker commands for your pipelines. However, if you are using Azure Container Registry from your Azure DevOps pipelines, you can execute their…