Orchestrating containers in a production environment — Introduction Amazon EKS, short for Elastic Kubernetes Service, is a managed Kubernetes service provided by AWS. By managed, we mean that AWS handles the provision, update, security, and maintenance of most Kubernetes services like nodes, the Kubernetes service itself, etc. All you have to do is manage the deployment and security…

Hello world with Docker — Introduction In the last tutorial, we took a look at what containers are. Now, lets take a deeper look at one of the most popular containerization tools out there. Docker. Docker What is docker? Docker is a containerization tool that allows you to package your app and all its dependencies into a…

An introduction to containers — Introduction Hey guys! In this article, we will be taking a look at the concept of containerization and a popular containerization tool in the DevOps world known as Docker. Without further ado, let’s get into it! What are containers When building software products, developers need to share code with each other. Sure, this is…

A deep dive into YAML — Introduction In my previous article about YAML (check it out here), we looked at what exactly YAML is, and we also took a look at the YAML syntax. Since then, I discovered some cool YAML features I bet you didn’t know about. …

A beginners guide to Terraform — Introduction So lately, I've been doing a lot of work with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code in general and I decided to write a little about it. In this piece, we will be looking at what we mean by Infrastructure as Code, Terraform and we will also use Terraform to create…

What’s it all about? — Introduction As DevOps engineers, we use YAML everywhere!! From Github Action workflows to Helm charts, YAML is a very popular language in the DevOps industry. In this article, we will be taking a brief look at the YAML syntax and getting a brief intro to it. What is YAML YAML is a recursive acronym…

Hello guys 👋, welcome to another python tutorial. Today we will be building a basic website monitoring bot that logs the status of a… — Hello guys 👋, welcome to another python tutorial. Today we will be building a basic website monitoring bot that logs the status of a website. Monitoring is an essential part of DevOps as it enables you to gain insight into the state of your application and the underlying infrastructure. The…

Hello guys, been a while🙃. In this article, we will be creating a python web app to scrape the title of a website. I know it’s not very… — Hello guys, been a while🙃. In this article, we will be creating a python web app to scrape the title of a website. I know it’s not very exciting but this tutorial is just meant to get you familiar with the basics of Flask and an intro to web scraping…

So, you just got remote access to a shiny new server for your birthday and you want to host your “cleanly coded”😉 website on it. Ok just… — So, you just got remote access to a shiny new server for your birthday and you want to host your “cleanly coded”😉 website on it. Ok just ssh into it and……wait!!!!! Let’s look at some security practices you should follow to protect your server from your hackers.