Journey of an IT Architect

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    AKS Lessons Learned 1 of 2

    In general, troubleshooting Kubernetes is tricky. That is because one has to get in and out of pods. I took two days to troubleshoot some…

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    From Microservice to Service Mesh

    We all know what microservice is now but how does service mesh assist with microservice development. Microservice Microservice as an architecture was firstly conceptualized in…

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    Istio Lab – Ingress and Egress

    Istio is a popular open-source service mesh implementation using Envoy proxy. One of the benefit of using Istio is the ingress and egress it brings…

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    Infrastructure deployment in Terraform 2/2

    In a previous post, I introduced Terraform Cloud and covered how to use AWS profiles with Terraform. This time I explored some alternatives to Terraform…

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    Azure Deets

    Both Azure and AWS are leading players in public cloud. AWS developed a lot of SMB customer in technology. Azure attracted many enterprises from their…

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    Logging and Monitoring in Kubernetes with PLG stack

    We’ve checked out the the actors in PLG stack (Promtail, Loki, Node Exporter, Prometheus, Grafana) and whipped up a quick pipeline on MacOS. Now I’m…

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