aws - Explorations of an Engineer

Creating an Autoscaling EKS Cluster using AWS Spot Instances

...that also pulls secrets automatically from AWS Parameter Store or Secrets Manager, automatically creates ALBs and registers DNS entries, and last but not least uses IRSA to grant AWS access to pods. This post is going to use Terraform and Helm, and will assume a working knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes,

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How we found a TCP hangup regression between AWS ELBs and Node.js

A Node.js security patch for the SlowLoris vulnerability causes many AWS ELBs in their default configuration to throw 504 errors.

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SSL Terminated Kubernetes Load Balancers in AWS

Launching services in Kubernetes that utilize an AWS Elastic Load Balancer has long been fairly simple - just launch a service with type: LoadBalancer. Where it becomes more complicated and not nearly as well documented is when you want to do SSL termination at the ELB level, a common practice