So I wanted to make a cronjob in lambda… I found myself needing to make a cronjob using AWS Lambda. It was fairly complex, used python and JS (both!) inside of one container and needed to be useable anywhere, both from my local machine or inside of Lambda. I knew there were a few different […]
I while back I built a number of pipelines using the docker-build-push action here. This uses buildx and buildkit to do its build/push stuff, and allows if needed for things like multi-arch builds. However what I quickly discovered was that you could not use ECR for the caching part of this, which at the time […]
The Problem: You have a service already running in EKS and the ingress is going through an ALB which is controlled already by the AWS ALB Controller. The url is company.example.com/api. You are now asked to allow any requests to some other domain, like api.otherexample.com/api to also work on your service, because ‘convenience’. The DNS […]
Whether you use Terraform or something else to code your EKS cluster configurations, you will have likely run into the following scenario: Hmm – these nodes are old, lets swap them out with a newer instance type. Wait.. Why can’t I just change the instance type in my node group? Or the name, for that […]
I’m not clear on why this took me a few days to figure out. I suppose I was dealing with other requests as they came up, as is the job. Now I wasn’t the person who installed most of our EKS ingresses, but I haven’t taken a ton of time to see how they were […]
So I’ve been using AWS every day on the job for years now. Every so often they get a new batch of hardware in and start rolling it out to their regions. Currently we are up to generation ‘7’ instances. It’s fairly common to have instances floating around in AWS that have been around for […]