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The 3 Rs: Reduce, Recycle, Repeat
A tote bag phrase applied to Terraform code
Sep 19, 20238 min read
The Contra questions
Or how to get richer information about someone's experience by asking differently
Sep 10, 20234 min read
Do you even JSONPath?
I like the CLI and a black background console when it comes to checking on things and debugging, it makes me feel more confident in what I'm seeing and closer to the basics. A big chunk of my recent years has been all about Kubernetes. Kubernetes th...
May 24, 20236 min read
All right then, keep your secrets in Git with SOPS
Wait, what? Don't panic, SOPS will encrypt them for you. Big NO NO Secrets (a.k.a. sensitive values), such as passwords or any other potentially harmful information must be protected, we all know that. That's why you should avoid sharing those or pu...
May 8, 20237 min read
A non-green view of (tech) Conferences
I attended KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam and I have been having this recurring thought of how it looked like from my not-so-interactive side. Money, money, money Even though I am a huge fan of listening to and seeing new stuff, more so if they are abo...
Apr 22, 20234 min read
Helm + declaration + environments = Helmfile
There's this lame Argentinian saying: "What's the difference between Flores and Floresta?" it's kind of a dad joke and it feels like I'm now closer to that humour. Know when you read a lot about a tool that is kind of the standard but for some reaso...
Apr 10, 20239 min read
Troposphere: make CloudFormation legible again
Let's go back a few years. I'd just joined a new team in a new company, all the infrastructure was in AWS, and I had very little IaC experience at the time. Some background CloudFormation is AWS's Infrastructure as Code service by default and many o...
Mar 18, 20237 min read
AWS estimated charges - get notified in a few steps!
Whenever we deploy resources on AWS, we need to keep in mind that costs are something to monitor closely. AWS offers a Free Tier, with the most used services for you to start exploring. And some of them are always free (within a given quota)! If yo...
Mar 12, 20233 min read