How to ship AWS Lambda logs with Functionbeat in a Terraform context — Anybody thinking about a solution for centralized logging and monitoring of their applications, will quickly come across the Elastic Stack. With its sophisticated Kibana UI, the powerful Elasticsearch backend, and the ecosystem for log and metric collectors, the Beats-Framework, it offers a good all-in-one solution for various application purposes.

How Does a Software Architect Fit into Autonomous Teams? — Software architects are responsible for the architecture of a system. This includes the overall design, the corresponding components, and their communication. One popular definition of architecture is “stuff that’s hard to change”. I’d argue that a good architect makes change easier — thus reducing architecture. Martin Fowler A software architect…

A How-To guide using Terraform — Hashicorp Vault is an open-source tool to manage secrets and secret access. The official definition of a secret in Vault: A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and more. — Vault Documentation Access to secrets is granted via group…

Beyond Continuous Deployment — Releasing software efficiently is a crucial part of the software delivery chain. The idea of integrating different copies of software multiple times a day initially was born with the concept of Extreme programming (XP). Today many companies already have an automated process of integrating their software with the help of…

Beware of the microservices, if you don’t need them — At the very beginning of a new project or when maintaining an existing software there is a point where you have to decide which kind of system architecture you’d like to choose. …

How to automate GCP Cloud Run setup with Terraform Cloud (Part 1/2) — In this post, we will deploy a web service written in Deno to GCP Cloud Run using Terraform, a cloud independent infrastructure as a code framework. This post is split into two parts. The first one is about how to set up all baselines, where the second one will cover…

Setup a pipeline with GitHub actions (Part 2/2) — In this post we will create a CI/CD pipeline to deploy a webservice written in Deno to GCP Google Cloud Run with Terraform and GitHub actions. This is the second part of a series, where the first part was about the basic setup. If you haven’t read it yet, head…

A comparision of Docker build capabilities — Purpose We will take a look on how to build Docker images and take notes about building time, resulting image size and files sent to the build context. The projects sources are considered as an example but are intended to be transfered to real life issues. You can checkout the project…

Few years ago few people cared about coded infrastructure, there was configmanagement and application code, however the server specifications, networks and other basic infrastructure were still admin concerns. Then Infrastructure as Code began to rise and multiple tools entered the market. AWS Cloudformation, Hashicorp Terraform, GCP Deployment Manager, Azure Resource…