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CI/CD Without Internet: ECR Pull Through Cache for Private Builds

27 May 2025

This post discusses AWS ECR Pull Through Cache, a native solution that allows you to securely access both public and private container images without direct internet connectivity.

📚 This guide is at an beginner level difficulty. 📚

Using Buildah to Build Docker Images In Your CodeBuild Project

4 May 2025

What happens when you need a secure, rootless, and daemon-free tool to build Docker containers from within a CI/CD runner container? You use Buildah.
📚 intermediate lvl difficulty 📚

AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider (ASCP) for Kubernetes

16 March 2025

In this post, we’ll explore how to use AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider (ASCP) to seamlessly access secrets stored in Secrets Manager from your EKS pods.
📚 intermediate lvl difficulty 📚

Running Terraform in an Air-Gapped Environment – Part 2

27 February 2025

In this post, we’ll focus on running Terraform in an air-gapped AWS environment and using VPCE’s for secure communication with AWS services without relying on internet connectivity. (2/2)
📚 Beginner level difficulty 📚

Running Terraform in an Air-Gapped Environment – Part 1

25 February 2025

This post walks through how to configure Terraform for offline use and ensuring smooth Terraform operations in restricted environments. (1/2)
📚 intermediate lvl difficulty 📚

Taming the EKS Beast: How I Saved 60% on Cloud-Spend

13 February 2025

In this post, I’ll explain how Karpenter works and how you can implement it to save massively on your EKS cloud spend.

📚 intermediate lvl difficulty 📚

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