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OpenShift ROSA: Get the OIDC URL within the cluster
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When running a ROSA cluster (OpenShift on AWS) we might need to get it's Identity provider (OIDC) for, for example, configure STS (IRSA). We can get it directly from the cluster reading the Authentication object
20/10/2022
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Updating secrets using the External Secrets Operator
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When we are using an ExternalSecret the actual secret is stored elsewhere, being the External Secret Operator in charge of updating the Secret object with the datata if fetches from the SecretStore. What happens when the Secret is updated?
11/10/2022
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Crossplane: (not) handling secrets when defining resources
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The best way of handling secrets is not having to: When we rely on Crossplane to create cloud resources (such as a RDS instance) we can configure it to create a secret with it's credentials so that we don't have define any secret beforehand
06/10/2022
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AWS Controllers for Kubernetes - S3
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Amazon has recently released a set of controllers (actually they are operators because they are using CRDs) to create resources on AWS using Kubernetes objects. It works in the same way it crossplane works
Let's install an test the ACK S3
21/09/2022
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Install awstools on a Mac
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awstools is a CLI tool that provides a small set of commands to manage the most commonly EC2 resources. It's installation it's not hard since it is a python script that has a list of dependencies on the requirements.txt file, but now it's even easier on Mac since there is a tap available
20/09/2022
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