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Building better platforms

Technical writing on Kubernetes, delivery workflows, cloud foundations, observability, and the systems around modern platform engineering.

Security

Auto-rotating RDS credentials with AWS Secrets Manager

Automatically update RDS credentials and application config on EC2 instances.

Security

How to auto update security groups with Cloudflare IPs using AWS Lambda

Delivery Workflows

Implement blue-green deployments using OpenTofu/Terraform and Ansible on EC2 workloads

Observability

Grafana installation, initial dashboard setup, along with some fundamentals and best practices.

Kubernetes

Scale Kubernetes on demand and on a schedule, so idle nodes stop costing you overnight.

Kubernetes

CLI tools and shell tips that take the typing out of everyday Kubernetes work.

Cloud Foundations

Manage multiple AWS accounts with OpenTofu/Terraform, from the simplest setup up to AWS Control Tower AFT.

Security

Learn how to protect your ALB with AWS WAF and CloudFront.

Networking

Resolve private Route53 records from inside an EKS cluster by pointing CoreDNS at the VPC resolver.