• Velero: Backup and restore

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  Just in the same way we backup physical servers, we need to backup Kubernetes workloads to be able to restore it to its previous state: We'll need make sure we are going to be able to restore the objects of any namespace and it's data (PersistentVolumes)

  08/05/2023

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• Deploying Cloud Resources with Pulumi and LocalStack

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  Pulumi is a powerful infrastructure as code tool that allows developers to deploy and manage cloud resources using familiar programming languages. However, when it comes to using Pulumi with LocalStack, there are some changes that need to be made to make Pulumi be able to reach LocalStack.

  25/04/2023

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• Kubernetes Backup and Restore: Install Velero on AWS

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  Velero is an open-source tool that helps you backup, restore, and migrate Kubernetes resources and volumes. It provides a simple and reliable way to protect your Kubernetes applications and data from data loss or disasters. Although Velero supports multiple cloud providers, in this post we are just going to see how to install it on AWS (both using IRSA and an explicit IAM role)

  12/04/2023

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• sceptre: Multiple instances of a template

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  When provisioning cloud resources using sceptre we can endup with plenty of errors that we'll have to track down:

  $ sceptre create example
  Do you want to create 'example' [y/N]: y
  [2023-01-26 05:18:31] - example/s3 - Creating Stack
  [2023-01-26 05:18:33] - example/s3 s3 AWS::CloudFormation::Stack CREATE_IN_PROGRESS User Initiated
  [2023-01-26 05:18:37] - example/s3 Bucket AWS::ServiceCatalog::CloudFormationProvisionedProduct CREATE_IN_PROGRESS
  [2023-01-26 05:18:41] - example/s3 Bucket AWS::ServiceCatalog::CloudFormationProvisionedProduct CREATE_IN_PROGRESS Resource creation Initiated
  [2023-01-26 05:20:15] - example/s3 Bucket AWS::ServiceCatalog::CloudFormationProvisionedProduct CREATE_COMPLETE
  [2023-01-26 05:20:20] - example/s3 s3 AWS::CloudFormation::Stack CREATE_COMPLETE
  [2023-01-26 05:20:24] - example/demo-policy - Creating Stack
  [2023-01-26 05:20:25] - example/demo-policy demo-policy AWS::CloudFormation::Stack CREATE_IN_PROGRESS User Initiated
  [2023-01-26 05:20:29] - example/demo-policy IAMPolicy AWS::ServiceCatalog::CloudFormationProvisionedProduct CREATE_IN_PROGRESS
  [2023-01-26 05:20:33] - example/demo-policy IAMPolicy AWS::ServiceCatalog::CloudFormationProvisionedProduct CREATE_FAILED Resource handler returned message: "Invalid request provided: AWS::ServiceCatalog::CloudFormationProvisionedProduct" (RequestToken: 4580f5a3-bec2-72cc-5f9f-abad3792e57a, HandlerErrorCode: InvalidRequest)
  [2023-01-26 09:20:33] - example/demo-policy demo-policy AWS::CloudFormation::Stack ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS The following resource(s) failed to create: [IAMPolicy]. Rollback requested by user.
  [2023-01-26 05:23:12] - example/demo-policy IAMPolicy AWS::ServiceCatalog::CloudFormationProvisionedProduct DELETE_COMPLETE
  [2023-01-26 05:23:12] - example/demo-policy demo-policy AWS::CloudFormation::Stack ROLLBACK_COMPLETE
  

  16/03/2023

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• sceptre: Defining an explicit dependency

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  When we are using the output of one stack as a parameter for another one we are defining an implicit dependency: sceptre is going to create one first, get it's output and then create the other one. If we still need to create some stack after another but we are not using any output as parameter, we can still define an explicit dependency.

  01/03/2023

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