Learn how to use Axios in Node.js to implement a secure and efficient refresh token mechanism for your application — In today’s world, securing user authentication is a crucial aspect of web applications, and one of the ways to achieve it is by using the refresh token mechanism. In this guide, we will explore how to implement a refresh token mechanism in a Node.js application using Axios, a popular JavaScript…

Need to manage a mixed configuration? Config Connector is for you! — Many times, the applications we deploy in Kubernetes use Google-managed services like CloudSQL for relational databases or PubSub. These services are managed by infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, for example. This often implies the management of different cycles for the infrastructure and the applications. Kubernetes allows you to define…

Where do I start to create good Terraform code for the long term? Discover the best practices and tools to get you off to the right start — Working in a DevOps team implies contributing to many Terraform repositories. Sometimes we don’t have all the same way of writing Terraform code. Code reviews becomes also time-consuming and maintaining code is tough. As you go along, you’ll own more and more Terraform code and one day will always be…

This tutorial shows you how to begin a modern monitoring stack with Prometheus (Operator) and Grafana on Kubernetes — Monitoring is a key pillar of DevOps best practices. This gives vital information on the performance and health of a platform. In a distributed environment such as Kubernetes and microservices, it is even more true. One of the great strengths of Kubernetes is the ability to scale your services and…

To teach you how to handle app packages, upgrades, and rollbacks — Today, Kubernetes becomes a must for DevOps practitioners for orchestrating containers. Once you have a Docker image of your application, you have to write YAML manifests to define Kubernetes workloads. Next, you deploy them with the kubectl command. This deployment way is when you’ve only one application. When you start…

Save up to 90% on your computing costs while ensuring zero downtime — Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed service to run Kubernetes on the AWS cloud. The managed solution runs a single-tenant Kubernetes control plan for each EKS cluster. Once the EKS cluster is up and ready, you need to provision Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) workers or AWS Fargate…

Gain efficiency with Terraform and leverage your code — Terraform is now an essential infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool to have in your toolbox as a DevOps practitioner. Such as many open-source projects, the community creates and shares many tools to make it more powerful. Sometimes there are too many tools and plugins around a project and you may feel lost…

Optimize your EKS nodes to run containers — Since its release, AWS Bottlerocket has only grown in popularity. Having the most efficient operating system to run containers is easily attainable. Bottlerocket focuses on security and integration with AWS-managed services using containers such as Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and ECS (Elastic Container Service). In this article, we will…

Now that you have deployed your EKS cluster you are wondering what to do next? Here are some tracks — Many software is available to extend and improve the capabilities of your EKS cluster. Sometimes the problem is the large choice of tools and we get lost to decide which one to install first. …