• Using AWS Secrets Manager secrets and Systems Manager parameters in Kubernetes with KES

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  By using the Kubernetes External Secrets we can use external secret management systems, like AWS Secrets Manager or Vault, to securely add secrets in Kubernetes.

  This is achieved by by using the ExternalSecret object which declares how to fetch the secret data, while the KES controller converts the ExternalSecrets to Secrets. The conversion is completely transparent to Pods that can access Secrets normally.

  29/11/2021

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• Helm: Usage of definitions across files

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  Sometimes writting helm charts can be very challenging due to the weird errors we might get:

  <sha256sum>: wrong type for value; expected string; got chartutil.Values
  

  26/11/2021

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• How to retrieve one of the elements of an array on a Helm template

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  While working on Helm charts we might be interested on using a particular element of an array (most likely the first). To achieve this we won't be able to use the regular square brackets approach, instead we will have to use the index function

  25/11/2021

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• IRSA: How to create an IAM role for a specific ServiceAccount

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  On AWS EKS you can associate an IAM role with a Kubernetes service account. The assume role policy is going to look like this:

  {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Sid": "",
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Principal": {
          "Federated": "arn:aws:iam::123456789123:oidc-provider/oidc.eks.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/id/A3E2AFA46A6F0C9B37B3F4A479A00C20"
        },
        "Action": "sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity",
        "Condition": {
          "StringEquals": {
            "oidc.eks.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/id/A3E2AFA46A6F0C9B37B3F4A479A00C20:sub": "system:serviceaccount:demons:demosa"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
  

  Let's take a look on how to create this role using Terraform

  24/11/2021

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• How to enable GUI mode for the aws-azure-login docker container

  2 min read

  If you use Azure Active Directory to provide SSO login you might be using aws-azure-login to use the normal Azure AD login (including MFA) from the command line to create a federated AWS session, placing the temporary credentials for the AWS CLI and other tools like Terraform to use them

  If the tool is failing you might need to use the GUI mode to check what's going on, but if you are using the docker container you will get the following error instead:

  $ aws-azure-login --profile prod --mode=gui
  Logging in with profile 'prod'...
  Using AWS SAML endpoint https://signin.aws.amazon.com/saml
  Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
  Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 100: unknown element "blank"
  [16:16:1122/083057.367058:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(1425)] Unable to open X display.
  
  
  TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md
  
      at onClose (/aws-azure-login/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:194:20)
      at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/aws-azure-login/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:185:79)
      at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:387:35)
      at ChildProcess.emit (domain.js:470:12)
      at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:277:12)
  

  23/11/2021

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• Encode and decode passwords and other Jenkins settings

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  On the Jenkins configuration files and the credentials.xml we can find some encoded strings, like usernames and passwords. We can use the Jenkins itself to decode them

  17/11/2021

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• Helm: Include definitions on templates

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  Sometimes we might need to add the same content twice on the same Helm chart. A tipical example would be the labels on the Pods that need to match the selectos on the Service. For this when you create a helm chart there are already some default definitions, for example:

  {{/*
  Common labels
  */}}
  {{- define "pet2cattle.labels" -}}
  helm.sh/chart: {{ include "pet2cattle.chart" . }}
  {{ include "pet2cattle.selectorLabels" . }}
  app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: {{ .Release.Service }}
  {{- end }}
  
  {{/*
  Selector labels
  */}}
  {{- define "pet2cattle.selectorLabels" -}}
  app.kubernetes.io/name: {{ include "pet2cattle.name" . }}
  app.kubernetes.io/instance: {{ .Release.Name }}
  {{- end }}
  

  16/11/2021

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• Helm template: Array to a comma separated string

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  While writing Helm charts we might need to transform some values that are going to be defined as an array as a value into a comma separated string

  12/11/2021

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• AWS Secrets Manager on Kubernetes using AWS Secrets CSI driver Provider

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  On the AWS Secrets Manager documentation we can find how AWS recommends to integrate it with AWS EKS using ASCP and a Secrets Store CSI Driver

  11/11/2021

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• Kubernetes: Quality of Service for Pods

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  On Kubernetes there are three QoS (Quality of Service) classes that a Pod can use. We can check what's the class it's using by checking the qosClass under status:

  $ kubectl get pod pet2cattle-swag-746956854c-62psn -n website -o jsonpath='{.status.qosClass}'
  Burstable
  

  10/11/2021

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