Martin Wang

Stuck with the error A resource with the ID already exists – to be managed via Terraform this resource needs to be imported into the State.  See why and how you can solve it here. #Azure #APIManagement #APIM #Terraform #AzureIntegrationServices #AIS

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🔍 Enhancing Kubernetes Security with Kube Hunter 🔍 As Kubernetes continues to revolutionize container orchestration, ensuring robust security measures is paramount. Today, I'd like to highlight Kube Hunter, a powerful open-source tool designed to proactively identify security weaknesses within Kubernetes clusters. **What is Kube Hunter?** Kube Hunter is a versatile penetration testing tool that helps organizations assess the security posture of their Kubernetes deployments. It scans clusters for potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, providing valuable insights into areas that need attention. **Key Features:** - **Comprehensive Scanning:** Kube Hunter covers a wide range of attack vectors, including network policies, RBAC rules, and potential privilege escalations. - **Actionable Reports:** It generates detailed reports that prioritize risks, enabling teams to address vulnerabilities promptly. - **Community-Driven:** Developed by Aqua Security, Kube Hunter benefits from ongoing community contributions and updates, ensuring it stays ahead of emerging threats. **Why Use Kube Hunter?** - **Early Detection:** Identify vulnerabilities before they are exploited by malicious actors. - **Compliance:** Align with best practices and regulatory requirements. - **Continuous Improvement:** Integrate into CI/CD pipelines for ongoing security assessments. In an era where cybersecurity threats are evolving rapidly, tools like Kube Hunter are indispensable for safeguarding Kubernetes environments. Whether you're a DevOps engineer, security professional, or IT leader, leveraging Kube Hunter can bolster your defense strategy and mitigate risks effectively. #Kubernetes #Cybersecurity #DevOps #CloudSecurity #KubeHunter #OpenSource #InfoSec

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It’s always interesting to see what example projects people work on - especially when they use interesting tools like serverless components on AWS. The example architecture below from El Mehdi Lafkaihi shows a med reminder bot which includes ChatGPT, a Telegram bot, AWS Lambda functions and more. There is a code repo included as well so check it out! https://lnkd.in/eKrDu5Wp

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Amazon ECS adds gMSA authentication for Linux containers for AWS Fargate https://buff.ly/48BWAK8 AWS Fargate now supports gMSA authentication for Linux containers through Amazon ECS. This enhancement provides increased security and flexibility for users. Stay updated with the latest developments in container management. #AWSFargate #ContainerSecurity

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🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 I'm thrilled to announce the release of a new Terraform module that simplifies the creation of Linux Containers (LXC) in Proxmox, bringing seamless automation to your infrastructure setup! 🌐💻 Introducing our latest creation: the Terraform Proxmox LXC Module! This module empowers you to effortlessly deploy LXC containers within your Proxmox environment, leveraging the power of Terraform and the flexibility of tfvars for easy variable input. 🔗 Get started now: GitHub Repository https://lnkd.in/giC4ZARq With this module, provisioning LXC containers becomes a breeze. Whether you're managing a single container or orchestrating a complex network of containers, our module streamlines the process, saving you time and effort. Key features include: ✨ Simple integration with your existing Terraform workflows ✨ Customizable configurations through tfvars input ✨ Seamless deployment on Proxmox environments Join the growing community of infrastructure automation enthusiasts and unlock the potential of Terraform and Proxmox combined! Explore the module, contribute, and let's build the future of infrastructure together! 🌟 #Terraform #Proxmox #InfrastructureAsCode #DevOps #Automation Your feedback and contributions are invaluable as we continue to refine and enhance this module. Let's embark on this automation journey together! 🚀🔧

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In a recent video, I explored how to configure Carpenter on AWS EKS to function as a cluster autoscaler. This is a valuable tool for anyone looking to optimize their AWS EKS cluster's resource utilization. Carpenter is an open-source solution that automatically provisions new nodes in response to unschedulable pods. By analyzing pending pods' resource requirements, it can choose the optimal instance type to run them on. The video provides a step-by-step guide to configuring Carpenter on AWS EKS. It covers essential steps like installing the AWS CLI and eksctl, creating a cluster configuration file, and setting up IAM roles and policies. Helm charts are then used to seamlessly install Carpenter on the EKS cluster. The video includes specific commands to streamline the process. To validate Carpenter's functionality, a dummy application is deployed and scaled up and down. As expected, Carpenter automatically scales the cluster by provisioning additional nodes when needed and removing unnecessary ones when pods decrease. The video concludes by demonstrating how to monitor Carpenter's activity using kubectl logs. If you're looking to leverage autoscaling for your AWS EKS cluster, this video is a comprehensive resource!  #AWS #EKS #Kubernetes #Carpenter #ClusterAutoscaler #cloud #automation https://lnkd.in/eSYt3Erh

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SlimFaas is one of the tools with the strongest Green impact that I know of! Are you using Kubernetes? It can be tested in 5 minutes and will likely reduce your CPU and RAM consumption by five or six times. A small gesture for the planet. #SlimFaas https://lnkd.in/etDaUV4m

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Kubernetes controller to enable automatic kubelet CSR validation after a series of (configurable) security checks. https://lnkd.in/gEV7Cwa7

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Terraform Hands-on Project (Part-1) Have you wonder why we use Terraform modules ? It's because for the reusability the same infrastructure code into multiple workspaces . Workspace define as multiple environment such as Prod , Non prod , UAT etc . In this small project I follow the DevSecOps principles as well . I kept the state file in s3 bucket to secure and we can enable backups as well . Steps :- 1. Use separate modules for VPC , IAM , Security Group , Key-Pair , EKS with its main.tf, variables.tf , outputs.tf 2. Outside module directory I created main.tf, variables.tf & provider.tf , terraformtf.vars etc 3. In provider.tf I adjoin the backend configuration of S3 for security , encryption purpose . 4. Last but not the least the EKS cluster consist with EKS cluster as well as Node group with Auto scale parameters such as Desired , Max & Min . Follow this Repo and use the code . Happy Terraforming !😎 🚀

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VPC 🚀 ✨ ⭐ 🌨 is a core and fundament topic on the AWS, clear understanding is a must to #architect the secured infrastructure. I have summarised a few topics that I think are sufficient to cover almost all the concepts of VPC. 🚀 👨‍💻 💫 🧠 #nutanix #awscommunitybuilders #awscloud #hyperscaler #awssolutionsarchitect https://lnkd.in/dYTqzJ7w

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In the world of Kubernetes, Node Affinity ensures your pods only run on designated nodes. Imagine a pod requiring a special GPU labeled node for processing power. Carpenter, an infrastructure management tool for AWS EKS, helps with this by automatically scaling your cluster based on these needs. This video showcases how to leverage Node Affinity with Carpenter on AWS EKS. It guides you through: 1. Setting up an EKS cluster and configuring Carpenter 2. Creating a deployment with a node affinity rule (e.g., requiring a node labeled eks:immersion-team=my-team) 3. Carpenter automatically provisioning a new node with the required label 4. Modifying the deployment to demand a different instance type. Carpenter responds by deleting the old node and creating a new one meeting the new specifications By the end, your pods are up and running on the newly created node. This video is a great resource for anyone using Kubernetes on AWS EKS, especially if you're looking to streamline pod placement and cluster scaling using Node Affinity and Carpenter.     #Kubernetes #EKS #NodeAffinity #Carpenter #CloudNative #Carpenter   https://lnkd.in/eehZh_C7

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🤔Thinking of migrating to Kubernetes? Great choice 🥢! But beware of these common mistakes that can derail your cloud-native journey. These are the top 3 pitfalls to avoid: 🥑 👊 Command Line Craze: While the kubectl tool is great for initial exploration, avoid👨‍💼managing your entire cluster with it. Kubernetes thrives on the "infrastructure as code" approach. Instead, use Git repositories to💎store and version control your YAML configuration files. Integrate CI/CD pipelines (like Jenkins or CircleCI) to automate🚗 deployments from these Git repositories. 👊 Resource Roulette: Don't just throw your workloads onto Kubernetes and hope for the best! 🍻 Resource limitations🧗‍♀️ are crucial for healthy cluster operation. Define resource requests and limits for your deployments to ensure they have the CPU, memory, and storage they🧣need to function properly. 👊 Monitoring Blindspot: Moving to Kubernetes doesn't magically eliminate monitoring needs. In fact, distributed architectures like Kubernetes can make observability even more critical. Integrate a monitoring⬇solution to gain deep visibility into your containerized applications. This will help you identify and🎮troubleshoot performance issues and ensure a smooth cloud-native experience. By⭕avoiding these mistakes, you can ensure a successful migration to Kubernetes and reap the🍺benefits of this powerful container orchestration platform. #kubernetes #devops 

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Let's start the Crossplane adventure and move together towards a full Gitops approach ! #kubernetes #gitops #devops #crossplane

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The latest AWS open source newsletter, #196 is out. As always, more great new projects are featured in this edition of the newsletter, including a link to the Valkey repo, a nice GUI based project to help you build orchestration workflows that uses Apache Airflow under the covers, a tool to help you find signals through the noise of your security logs, a project to help you run serverless tasks in a cron like fashion, a command line runner for Amazon CodeCatalyst, a tool to help you simplify the deployment of Cruise Control on Amazon MSK, a nice Mac client for experimenting with Amazon Bedrock, and some really cool demo apps, the pick of which (for me) is a nice way of surfacing up your Amazon Bedrock models in a way that existing applications that expect an API key can use. Also featured in this weeks edition is content on Valkey, Apache Airflow, OpenSearch, LangChain, PostgreSQL, WordPress, RAGmap, RAGxplorer, Cedar, AWS CDK, Lambda Web Adapter, Postfix, Spring Boot, Amazon Corretto, Kubernetes, Karpenter, KEDA, Prometheus, OPA, Amazon EMR, PySpark, MySQL, Open JD, AWS Amplify, GraphQL, AWS PDK, Apache Livy, and Nodestream. Make sure you check out the section at the end, where I highlight all the amazon open source Builders that create the content I feature, which this week includes  Zied Ben Tahar, Vadym Kazulkin, Vivek Gite, Johannes Konings, Daniel Aniszkiewicz, Rio Astamal, João Galego, Ricardo Ferreira, Abishek Gupta, Rehan van der Merwe, David Nalley, Swapnil Bhartiya, Amo Moloko, Hernan Garcia, Jeetendra Vaidya, Sriharsh Adar, Mark Stephens, Mark Wiebe, Daniel Neilson, Pooja Singh, Rekha Reddy Anupati, Aditya Samant, Jayesh Shinde, Harshad Yeola, Sameer Malik, Baji Shaik, Anil Maktala, Arundeep Nagaraj, Bukhtawar Khan, Gaurav Bafna, Sachin Kale, Ranjith Ramachandra, Rohin Bhargava, Matthew Welborn, Paul Whittemore, Alex Iankoulski, Riccardo Freschi, Shubir Kapoor, Mihir Surani, Piyush Mattoo, Hans Nesbitt, Siva Guruvareddiar, Imaya Kumar Jagannathan, Oleg Mironov, Dmitry Shurupov, and Gary Stafford. #opensource #oss #aws Go enjoy -> https://lnkd.in/eWjA9xA9

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