Kubernetes Cron Jobs vs. AWS Lambdas

I’ve always stressed that it should never be Kubernetes or Serverless, but rather: What is the right tool for the job. Both technologies are great and both technologies carry their own baggage. This week as I was working on some design and thought about its implementation I had to decide whether I should add a…

EKS Additional users

In our EKS Kubernetes cluster we want multiple AWS users to be able to use the kubectl command to examine resources and for now, they can even have admin access to a few select groups. The way I’ve always done this in the past is I create new stanza in the aws-auth configMap in the…

Lens and EKS

Lens is a really cool front end dashboard for Kubernetes clusters. One issue I ran into from connecting to the cluster was that I typically use different AWS Profiles for different clusters. Typically I’ll do something like: To set my user. To put this in Lens so that it can connect, we just add this…

Cloudfront S3 static site hosting and index.html

This article I followed was a little outdated.  Things do change a lot in 3 years.  It’s mostly the same as the function seems to work but the implementation does not.  Following the hints here I was able to get this to work.  The big one was you need to refresh your browser.  I think…

Kubernetes Cron Job vs. AWS Glue

As I’ve been dealing with streaming data one of the architectural decisions I’ve had to make is how to run periodic batch jobs on the data as it comes in.  In the case of web traffic, it is logged into a database.  What my batch jobs do is take the data from the MariaDB MySQL…