I will outline the steps for setting up an Amazon EKS environment that is cost-effective while prioritizing security, and include standard applications in the configuration. Amazon EKS should alig...

I’m going to describe how to install Amazon EKS with Karpenter and Cilium (+ standard apps). Amazon EKS should meet these “cheap” requirements: Two AZ only - less payments for cross availabili...

I would like to share few notes about kubectl plugins installed by krew which I’m using… It should not be comprehensive description of plugins, but I prefer to focus on the examples and screenshots...

Sometimes it is necessary to store the secrets in the HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault or others and use them in Kubernetes. In this post I would like to look at the way how t...

In the previous post related to Cheapest Amazon EKS I’m using the cert-manager to get the wildcard certificate for the ingress. When the Let’s Encrypt production certificates are used, it may be h...

In the previous post related to Cheapest Amazon EKS I decided to install kube-prometheus-stack to enable cluster monitoring containing Grafana, Prometheus and few other components. There are many ...

FTP is protocol which I haven’t used for many years. I configured FTP servers like vsftpd or ProFTPD in the past, but this time I decided to look at the SFTPGo. The main reason why I wanted to r...

In the previous post related to Cheapest Amazon EKS I decided to install Karpenter to improve the efficiency and cost of running workloads on the cluster. There are many articles describing what K...

Sometimes it is necessary to save costs and run the Amazon EKS the “cheapest way”. The following notes are about running Amazon EKS with lowest price. Requirements: Two AZ, use one zone if po...

I wanted to summarize my notes about the Sony A7 IV settings. Settings are separate into Photo and Video section to have them separated. Photo flowchart LR AA1[My Menu \n Setting] --> AA2...