Introduction: I have been using EKS for over 3 years now and I have never understood why AWS decided not to have the EBS storage driver pre-installed on a new cluser. Storage is like oxygen - I never understood why something as basic as that shouldn’t be available pre-installed.

Images are a crucial part of any website. They make content more engaging and visually appealing. But if these images aren’t served fast, they can slow down your site and frustrate users. Imagine visiting a site where images take forever to load or don't display correctly on

Recently, I joined KubeNine as a DevOps engineer. As part of the onboarding process, I received a work email and access to a company dashboard that provides links to all the tools I need. This dashboard is crucial because it connects me to the various services we use, such as

Introduction Apache Airflow is a powerful orchestration tool primarily used by data engineers. However, its capabilities can significantly benefit DevOps engineers as well. By using Airflow, DevOps engineers can automate complex workflows and automate various infrastructure use cases. Airflow as a platform is useful for developing, scheduling and monitoring batch-oriented

Introduction Azure AD OAuth2 authentication allows Grafana to use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as an identity provider. This means users can log in to Grafana using their Azure AD credentials. The authentication process involves several steps to ensure secure access. How it works: 1. User Requests Access: When a

In this blog, we will explain how to set up your NGINX Ingress with a TLS/SSL certificate using Helmfile. The traditional methods, involve multiple steps and manual configurations, can be time-consuming and error-prone. for this demo, we are using the domains grafana-ai.takemetoprod.com and Nginx as load balancers.

Introduction Managing database backups manually can be time-consuming and prone to errors. As a DevOps Engineer you're often tasked with managing multiple databases.Organizations need a reliable and automated method to regularly back up their databases securely. Apache Airflow offers a solution to this problem by providing a

You’ve decided to move your applications from on-premises to AWS and are looking at the cloud services that best meet your needs. When moving an application with a relational database like Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server to the cloud, you'll face the choice between Amazon RDS and

What is iptables? Iptables is a command-line utility for configuring the firewall rules of the kernel’s netfilter framework. It allows system administrators to filter and manipulate incoming, outgoing, and forwarded network packets based on various criteria such as IP addresses, ports, protocols, and packet states. Iptables explained to a