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• eksclustergames.com walk through!

  
  Published on November 1, 2023

  eksclustergames.com is a new CTF targetted at kubernetes vulnerabilities. This is a walk through on how to solve the issues.

  Challenge 1

  The first challenge starts off with a clue:

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• Speed up github actions with conditional jobs, even with required checks

  
  Published on October 28, 2023

  Having every github action run on every pull request will end up slowing you down and sometimes even discourage you from making changes. For example, if you see an error in the README.md but you know you'll have to wait for the entire test suite to run you may choose not to push the...

• Running a kubernetes cluster locally with kind

  
  Published on July 20, 2023

  Previously I showed how to run kubernetes locally with kubeadm and VMs but sometimes that is overkill so I wanted to show how to run kind which is "kuberetes in docker".

  Creating your first...

• AWS From Scratch with Terraform - Setting up your Root Account for IaC with Terraform Cloud and Github actions.

  
  Published on June 22, 2023

  Following this article will get you setup with an AWS Root account that can be managed through through Terraform Cloud with OIDC and github actions. As a best practice you should not keep long-lived access keys in your CI/CD pipelines when deploying to AWS, instead you should use OIDC (OpenID Con...

• Wiping an AWS Account with aws-nuke

  
  Published on June 21, 2023

  When you're an SRE/DevOps engineer you'll end up making AWS accounts and create a lot of cruft in your sandbox and development accounts. AWS does not make it easy to clear these up but there is a tool called aws-nuke that will do it for you!

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• How to speak spanish like a colombian drug lord!

  
  Published on April 29, 2022

  I've been living in Puerto Rico for 4 years but two of those have been COVID and so I haven't been able to practice Spanish as much as I'd like. So to speed up my learning I've decided I want to watch a lot of spanish speaking television to start training my ears, but to do this I need a baseline...

• Running a kubernetes cluster locally with kubeadm

  
  Published on April 16, 2022

  I’m going to show you how to get a real kubernetes cluster setup locally on top of virtual machines! I’ll be using multipass but feel free to use virtualbox, proxmox, or whatever your favorite cloud provider is.

  kubeadm a production ready kubernetes install tool and I prefer to use it ove...

• Automate project workflows with the command runner Just!

  
  Published on February 25, 2022

  I believe every project should have a CLI built around the standard workflows of developing on the project. Things like:

  • Install dependencies
  • Run tests
  • Run linter and formatters
  • Build project
  • Start / Stop the docker environment

  The r...

• Use asdf to manage Python, NodeJS, GoLang and more!

  
  Published on February 17, 2022

  asdf is a general purpose version manager that can manage versions of most programming language runtimes through a set of plugins.