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aws

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 [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-fine-grained-iam-roles-service-accounts/] to grant AWS access to pods. This post is going to use Terraform and Helm, and will
02 Feb 2020 8 min read
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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.
06 Feb 2019 9 min read
kubernetes

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
08 Feb 2017 1 min read
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