Terraform came late into my life, but I quickly fell in love with it. It was 2018 already and I was still using “native”, proprietary IaaC tools to deploy and maintain my infrastructures. All of a sudden, I needed to port a project to a multi-cloud environment and the old…

I will come clean: I began using GitHub Actions only recently and I want to make amends. I missed out, possibly because CI/CD Actions became generally available only in late 2019 and by then I was already well-acquainted and satisfied with other tools I used for ~5 years. Not trying…

I love Terraform for many reasons. One of them is the documentation. Oftentimes I only need to copy & paste snippets from the docs and change a few settings to deploy a resource.

So deploying a Lambda function on AWS should be as easy as using this snippet from the…

In an effort to leave its troubled recent past behind, Docker has significantly revamped its business model over the course of this (very troubled indeed) year. As a part of this renovation, back in August the company announced big changes to the Docker Hub service too. Effective November 1, 2020:

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Video content is taking over the Internet. The trend began long ago and the most recent stats confirmed the predictions were correct. TikTok, a social network entirely based on video content, grew so much and so rapidly that it quickly became a “threat” to long-stading giants such as Instagram and…

I recently came across a tweet sharing a very strong opinion about the separation of “cloud” accounts to isolate environments. The subject has been highly debated over the years and while there is no “one size fits all” solution, there is a widespread consensus on the advantages of separated accounts…

When I attended to AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas I had a clear feeling that everything in there was about serverless. Sessions regarding serverless computing and managed services were scheduled in the biggest and fanciest conference rooms available and were literally packed with people. Seats for sessions were reserved…

Helm is a widely used package manager for Kubernetes. It simplifies the deployment of many common applications and it also helps to create deployment packages for complex custom applications with dependencies. …