Using gRPC with ingress-nginx add-on with AKS — Updated: 2021–08–30 multi-line code to gist as hard to copy from Medium In previous articles in this series, I covered how to publish end points for applications that are deployed on Kubernetes, ultimately detailing how to use Ingress resources with automation support for TLS certificates and updating DNS records. …

Securing Secrets using Vault and AppRole Auth — Security is an essential and a core part of operations and thus keeping secrets secured is vital. Unfortunately, for many an organization, this is often not a priority. The lack of zeal toward managing secrets is likely related toward the complexity involved. Managing configuration artifacts have well established patterns using…

ExternalDNS with static credentials to access to Cloud DNS — In a previous article, I covered how to use ExternalDNS to automate updating DNS records when you deploy an application on Kubernetes. This was done by giving all the nodes on Kubernetes access to the Cloud DNS zone. …

Using ExternalDNS with IRSA to access Route 53 — In previous articles, I covered how to use ExternalDNS using either role or user identities. Both of these methods are less than ideal as they either allow access to every one in the cluster, or expose secrets that can get exploited. Enter IAM Roles for Service Accounts What if there was a way to use the…

Using ExternalDNS with static credentials to access to Route53 — In a previous article, I covered how to use ExternalDNS to automate updating DNS records when you deploy an application on Kubernetes. This was done by giving all the nodes on Kubernetes access to the Amazon Route 53 DNS zone. …

ExternalDNS with kubelet identity to access to Azure DNS — After deploying a public facing web application on Kubernetes, you need to update DNS records so that traffic can reach the server. ExternalDNS can automate this process during deployment stage of the web application, so there is no need for extra configuration outside of Kubernetes. This tutorial demonstrates how to…

ExternalDNS with worker node GSA to access to Cloud DNS — ExternalDNS automates updating DNS records as part of the deployment of a public facing web application. Thus, you do not need to use different tools to update corresponding DNS records to support the application, just only Kubernetes is needed. This tutorial demonstrates how to setup and configure this on Google…

Using ExternalDNS with Node IAM Role to access to Route53 — ExternalDNS automates updating DNS records so that you can deploy a public facing application using just Kubernetes. The alternative is to deploy the application, and then later use a different set of tools to update corresponding DNS records to support the application. This tutorial shows how to setup and configure…