Developers work with secrets all the time. These secrets can contain critical information such as ranging from internal IP addresses to sensitive usernames and passwords. It is extremely important to manage secrets and make sure that a secure way of using this is implemented. There are many such secret management…

Loki is a widely used tool for monitoring pods and containers. Loki is actually just the aggregator as the logs are pushed to grafana and there we can take it further with grafana’s visualisation capabalities. The use cases ranges from developers wanting to visualise logs as the application is being…

If you use the default helm configuration of prometheus,grafana and loki they won’t persist data in disk which means you stand to lose data in a scenario where the server/node restarts or crashes. For critical applications, it’s very important to retain historical data of metrics and logs so that it…

I had written a speedrun on how to create persistent volume claims using AWS EBS in a previous mentioned blog post here. However the steps shown there won’t work for kubernetes clusters version above 1.23 due to a feature enabled in these versions called CSI Migration. So some additional steps…

In kubernetes it is possible to dynamically provision persistent volume claims in AWS which means we can directly create persistent volume claims for a certain application without having to worry about a persistent volume configuration using something storage classes. You can read more about storage classes here. …

Argo CD is a particularly famous tool used in Git Ops in tandem with Kubernetes deployments for CI/CD pipelines. It has a dashboard enabled which normally an administrator would have to port forward to login. In an enterprise, it’s always better to have a dashboard with a domain name for…

After completing my CKAD(you should my review somewhere here)last month, the logical step forward was to go for CKA. Many reviews spoke that CKA was a whole lot more difficult than CKAD which made me slightly nervous to plan it as I barely passed my CKAD with a score of…

To a new reader, a quick glance at my writing history would suggest that I am a cyber security engineer which is absolutely correct. But then why would I study for something like CKAD which is mostly aimed at developers and devops engineers? Devops is one of the fastest growing…

Before we proceed : This is not a cyber security related blog , this is just a quick blog of deploying a simple web application with a database attached. It’s actually quite a noobish blog, however I wanted to document the process of deploying the application from scratch (except code…