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Optional Secrets as Volumes or Environment variables
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Secretscontain sensitive data such as passwords, tokens, and certificates. They can be used by Kubernetes pods to authenticate with other systems. However, some of them might be optional so we'll want to be able to create the Pod without having to use some template engine to handle whether the secret is present or not.06/03/2023
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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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Kubernetes: Search for rule granting certain action
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To be able to audit access permissions of users un a Kubernetes cluster we might be interested in searching for Roles or ClusterRoles that grants access to a certain object:
27/02/2023
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ArgoCD: Create Applications based on Pull Requests
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One of the key features of ArgoCD is the ApplicationSet, which provides a way to group multiple applications together and deploy them as a single unit. This allows you to manage and deploy multiple applications as a single entity, making it easier to coordinate deployments across multiple teams and applications.
We have several ways of generating Applications using and ApplicationSet, one of them is using the repositories Pull Requests.
22/02/2023
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AWS Console: Assuming roles
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If you are working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you may have heard the term "assuming a role" in the context of one role using another role. This phrase refers to the process of temporarily taking on a specific set of permissions or privileges within an AWS account, in order to perform certain actions or access specific resources.
Since when we are using the AWS console we are using a specific role to have access, we can assume another role as well.
21/02/2023
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