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Introduction
The Center for Internet Security provides many guidelines and benchmark tests for best practices in securing your code. The CIS has published a benchmark for Kubernetes. The kube-bench is an open-source tool that checks whether Kubernete...

Amazon EKS Security Assessment - Kube Bench

Observability is an essential part of any cloud-native environment. When it comes to Amazon EKS clusters, observability is an even more critical factor. This blog post will explore how you can provision an observability landscape to monitor and manag...

EKS Observability Blueprint

GitHub Actions is a powerful tool that allows developers to automate their workflow, but when it comes to scheduling workflows, it may not always work as expected. Many users have reported that their scheduled workflows are not triggering at the sche...

GitHub Actions Scheduled Workflows: Understanding the Limitations and Possible Solutions

In this blog post, we will cover how you can use the OSSF Scorecard to assess the security score of your repository and report the results in GitHub Advanced Security - Overview. This will allow you to assess the security scores of your repositories ...

Boost Your Enterprise Security with GitHub Actions and the OSSF Score Card

As an Azure user, you may be looking for a way to manage your infrastructure with the power of Terraform. However, getting started with Terraform can be challenging, especially if you have existing resources that you want to include in your configura...

Azure Terrafy: Import and Manage Existing Azure Resources with Terraform

Amazon made a couple of announcements today (November 29, 2022) at AWS re: Invent in Las Vegas, focusing on Data, Analytics, Infrastructure & Security. We will see the announcements that excite me in this blog post.
Data & Analytics:

Zero ETL future...

AWS re:Invent 2022 Announcements - Data, Infrastructure & Security Highlights

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) helps you manage, scale, and deploy your Kubernetes clusters. In the enterprise cluster setup, you need more than the cluster setup. To bootstrap, the kubernetes cluster requires significant features, including...

EKS Blueprints - Modular Constructs for your Kubernetes cluster

In this blog, I’m going to walk through how to set up AWS Copilot in GitHub actions. 
AWS Copilot
AWS Copilot is an open-source command-line interface that makes it easy for developers to build, release, and operate production-ready containerized app...

AWS Copilot GitHub Actions

In today's blog post, we will see how to validate the JWTs using Auth0 Golang JWT middleware using Gin Web Framework. Gin is a web framework written in Go (Golang). In deep-dive, we will see how to integrate the Auth0 Golang JWT middleware to verify ...

Auth0 JWT Middleware in Go - Gin Web Framework

Amazon EKS Connector is now generally available. With EKS Connector, you can now extend the EKS console to view your Kubernetes clusters outside AWS. What !?! Yes, now we can use the EKS console to visualize the Kubernetes clusters, both EKS and non-...

AWS EKS Connector - Manage all your Kubernetes Clusters in one place

In this tutorial blog post, we are going to see how to deploy .NET 6 API to AWS App Runner using AWS Copilot CLI. 
What is App Runner?
AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web app...

Deploy .NET 6 API to AWS App Runner using AWS Copilot CLI

Hello all, In today's blog, we are going to learn about policy as code in Kubernetes using Kyverno.  Let's get started.
What is Policy as Code?
Policy as Code (PaC) is the idea of writing code in a high-level language to manage and automate policies....

Enforcing Policy as Code using Kyverno in Kubernetes

Hello everyone !! If you are running your workloads on the AWS EKS cluster, you may explore the rules and limitations of node group scaling to provision the deployments dynamically.  This blog will explore the node lifecycle management solutions AWS ...

Karpenter - Scaling Nodes Seamlessly in AWS EKS

Hello all, In this short post, we will take a look at Vercel's pkg - how we can package the Node.js app into a single executable. 
When we are developing a Node.js application, it totally makes sense to install dev tools, dependencies to build and ru...

Vercel's pkg - Package your Node.js app into a single executable

What is EKS Anywhere?
What does EKS Anywhere solve?
Announcement
First Look 👀
Installing EKS Anywhere (Local)
Manage on-premise EKS Anywhere Cluster from AWS EKS Console
Setup GitOps in EKS Anywhere Cluster


Conclusion

What is EKS Anywhere?
Amazon...

EKS Anywhere - Running EKS Cluster on your own infrastructure

Hello 👋 , In  part 1 of the  Google Cloud Run series, we learned what Google Cloud Run is, how to deploy the source code or container to the Google Cloud Run, and set up the continuous deployment to deploy the application to Cloud Run using a few cl...

Google Cloud Run - Add Persistent Storage

Hello all, Let's see how to enable AWS Load Balancer Controller on EKS Cluster to integrate the AWS Application / Network Load Balancers. This is a guide to provision the use cases & solutions of the AWS Load Balancer integration with Kubernetes Clus...

AWS Load Balancer Controller on EKS Cluster

In this blog post, let's see what are the options to manage the Auth0 platform using Infrastructure as a code tool. I've presented this topic at Auth0 Avacado Labs Youtube channel and the demo was built around it. I will walk you through all the opti...

Auth0 - Identity Infrastructure as Code

Hello 👋 , In this blog post series, I'm going to walk you through the  Google Cloud Run  to develop and deploy highly scalable containerized applications on a fully managed serverless platform. Let's see how Google Cloud Run makes app development si...

Google Cloud Run - Build and Deploy a Flask App

Hello 👋 , In this blog post, we are going to see how to send SMS using Azure Communication Service using Azure NodeJS SDKs. 
Azure Communication Service
Azure Communication Services are cloud-based services with REST APIs and client library SDKs ava...

Send SMS messages with Azure Communication Services

Azure Stream Analytics - Alerts on IoT telemetry
Overview
Hello 👋 , In this blog post, I'm going to walk through to create stream-processing logic using Azure Stream Analytics to gather data from the Internet of Things(IoT) devices.  In detail, I wi...

Azure Stream Analytics - Alerts on IoT telemetry

Hello everyone 👋  !! In this blog post, we will see how to implement Progressive Delivery with AWS AppMesh in EKS using Flagger. Before getting deep dive into the blog, let's see some of the concepts behind it. - Continuous Delivery, Continuous Depl...

Progressive Delivery with AWS AppMesh in EKS using Flagger

In this blog post, let's see how the IP Address prefix assignment functions enable EKS to support more pods per node. 
By default, the number of IP addresses available to assign to pods is based on the number of IP addresses assigned to Elastic netwo...

EKS VPC CNI Addon - Support for high pod density in node

Hello all, this post details my 2020 year in review. 
🙏 Survived
I'm grateful for this life I have. 
Yes, It's one of the unique years. 

Meeting a lot of new people turned into never meet anyone other than my family in person. 
Commuting to work fo...

My 2020 Year in Review

Building Event-Driven Apps with Dapr in Kubernetes
In this article, I will summarize the tech talk I've done in various meetups on Building Event-Driven Apps with Dapr in Kubernetes
Talk Abstract
In this talk, we will go through an overview of Dapr, ...

Tech Talk: Building Event-Driven Apps with Dapr in Kubernetes

Hello 👋,  Application Monitoring is critical for your business. It gives vital information on your customer experience. Monitoring your system and infrastructure is essential to ensure the performance of your services. As software development moves ...

Streaming Auth0 Logs to Datadog to monitor

Hello,  👋 In this final post of the AWS Copilot series, we will see how to add addons like storage and additional resources, if any, and monitor the logs of the application.
If you want to check the previous posts of this series, please check them o...

AWS Copilot - Addons, Additional Resources & Monitor

Hello 👋. The software has never been more complex than it is today. Why? The monolithic is broken into microservices, distributed systems, heterogeneous tech stacks,  cloud-native services, and so - to build resilient, powerful, efficient services a...

Open Telemetry - Observability in .NET Core Apps

Howdy !! In the previous post on this series, we had a walkthrough on how AWS Copilot facilitates creating the application infrastructure, container registry and build the container to deploy in the test environment. Yes, that's the Hello World .NET ...

AWS Copilot - Automate Application Releases

Introduction
You've your application running in containers. What are the steps you are taking to deploy the containers? How much time does it take to create the infrastructure, pipelines to build, release, and operate production-ready containerized a...

AWS Copilot - Containerized Applications in AWS ECS

We are always asking questions to expand our knowledge. We need quick and relevant answers to our questions in everyday life. What's the time now? How is the weather today? What's the travel time to work? How many cups of sugar in this recipe? When w...

Amazon Kendra - Enterprise Search powered by ML

The viral epidemics are a severe threat to the entire world. It's causing the significant loss, but COVID is not the first one, and it's not the last one too. The promising hope to this, Humanity has so far survived every microbe we came across, and ...

Google Cloud AutoML Vision - Warn Against Face Touching

In this blog post, I will walk through how to integrate Dapr - Distributed application runtime in Kubernetes with Azure Event Hubs.
What is Dapr?
Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microserv...

Event-Driven App with Dapr & Azure Event Hubs

Overview
Getting Started
Install Pulumi CLI
Prerequisites


Create a new EKS cluster
Setting up NGINX Ingress Controller
Deploy Node-RED in Cluster
Thoughts & Conclusion

Overview
I'm going to share my initial thoughts and impressions of Pulumi on co...

Pulumi - Coding Infrastructure in Typescript

Cover image by: unsplash-logoKai Pilger
Overview
I recently started exploring ChirpSDK - SDK for transmitting data through audio when I explore one of the non-internet or less costly hardware options for IoT solutions to transmit the data. 
Chirp ena...

Exploring Chirp SDK in Flutter - Data over audio

title: Terraform - Tillerless Helm Deployment
published: true
description: This blog post explains why installing tiller on kubernetes cluster should not be done, how to install helm charts through locally running tiller server and terraform script t...

Sivamuthu Kumar

Key Focus Areas
DevOps, Cloud Native, ML/AI, IoT

DevOps

Cloud Native

IoT

Mobile/Web

Blogs & News
Recent Blog Posts

Amazon EKS Security Assessment - Kube Bench

EKS Observability Blueprint

GitHub Actions Scheduled Workflows: Understanding the Limitations and Possible Solutions

Boost Your Enterprise Security with GitHub Actions and the OSSF Score Card

Azure Terrafy: Import and Manage Existing Azure Resources with Terraform

AWS re:Invent 2022 Announcements - Data, Infrastructure & Security Highlights

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Sivamuthu Kumar

Key Focus AreasDevOps, Cloud Native, ML/AI, IoT

DevOps

Cloud Native

IoT

Mobile/Web

Blogs & NewsRecent Blog Posts

Amazon EKS Security Assessment - Kube Bench

EKS Observability Blueprint

GitHub Actions Scheduled Workflows: Understanding the Limitations and Possible Solutions

Boost Your Enterprise Security with GitHub Actions and the OSSF Score Card

Azure Terrafy: Import and Manage Existing Azure Resources with Terraform

AWS re:Invent 2022 Announcements - Data, Infrastructure & Security Highlights

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Key Focus Areas
DevOps, Cloud Native, ML/AI, IoT

Blogs & News
Recent Blog Posts

Videos
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