Mahalo and Farewell

Mon 31 December 2018 Category mahalo

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson

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Setting up a PostgreSQL RDS instance using CDK in Python

Sat 11 August 2018 Category cdk

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In a previous post, I advocated that AWS CDK is a very neat way to write infrastructure as code, enabling you to create and provision AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly.

Today I show how to spin up a PostgreSQL RDS instance using CDK in Python. The code is available ...

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Setting up a VPC with CDK in Python

Sat 11 August 2018 Category vpc

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AWS CDK is a very neat way to write infrastructure as code, enabling you to create and provision AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly.

You choose your favorite language to code what resources (stacks) you want, and CDK synthetizes them to CloudFormation and helps you to deploy them to AWS ...

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Skaffold is a Kool K8s Tool!

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I recently found out about Skaffold, a command-line tool recently released by Google, and designed to make local Kubernetes development very easy, allowing for iterative local development against a Kubernetes cluster. It's really cool, check this out:

  • It runs as a binary in your local machine (e.g., easy ...
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So, What is GitOps?

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In general, there are two ways to deploy infrastructure changes:

  • Procedural way: telling some tool what to do, e.g.: Ansible (a glorified SSH). This is also known as a push model.
  • Declarative way: telling some tool what you want to have done, also known as infrastructure as code, e ...
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So, What is a DevOps Engineer?

Fri 10 February 2017 Category Devops

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Rad thing about working in startup engineering teams is that you can wear several hats. Let us talk about the DevOps 🎩 today.

DevOps is a set of software development practices that combine software development (Dev) and information-technology operations (Ops) to shorten the systems-development life cycle while delivering features, fixes, and ...

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A quick introduction to Kustomize for Kubernetes

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Kustomize is a tool that lets you create an entire Kubernetes application out of individual pieces — without touching the YAML for the individual components.

Kustomize traverses a Kubernetes manifest to add, remove or update configuration options without forking. It is available both as a standalone binary and as a native ...

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Introducing Amigo, a tool to manage Google Cloud Platform Security

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I wrote a tool called Amigo that uses the GCP API to fetch an organization's project data and, with a set of customizable rules, searches for security risks!

How Amigo Works

i) Amigo retrieves the GCP project list and their attributes (defined in a config.yaml file).

ii) For ...

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Quick & Dirty iOS ARKit with "Post Malone Balloon"

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Augmented reality (AR) describes user experiences that add 2D or 3D elements to the live view from a device’s camera in a way that makes those elements appear to inhabit the real world.

Hi Everyone!

In this post, I show how neat is to write an AR iOS application ...

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