I have recently been sucked into the field known as DevOps [https://en.wikipedia.org/…
The Trusty Bucket - Access Control Lists
"Just stick it in an S3 bucket." It is a line I have…
A Beginner's Guide to AWS Cloud Architecture
This is a high-level overview about the most foundational and important pieces that make up the AWS cloud. Some prior knowledge of IP addresses would be beneficial, but not crucial.…
Distributed Tracing using AWS X-Ray
As monoliths have been replaced by microservice applications, growing in size and complexity, the challenge…
Do you have publicly inaccessible database that you need to SSH into? Using SSH Reverse Tunneling, aka SSH Reverse Port Forwarding, you can securely connect to the database without directly opening it up to a vector of attack.…
Start Automating API Tests with Postman
What is Wrong with Cucumber? For a long time now many of us have been…
CI Test unusual projects with GitHub actions and self-hosted runners
I contribute to Armbian [https://armbian.com], a Linux distribution for 120+ bespoke ARM-based Single…
Easily Deploy a Minecraft Server onto GCP using Terraform & Docker
Traditionally, bringing up a Minecraft server involves manually installing all separate components and spending too much time in the command line. Using the Terraform recipe from this blog post we can easily bring up our own server without worrying about the granularities of manual deployment.…
Deploy to ECS using GitHub Actions
Building a DevOps platform nowadays can become a challenge for architecture and platform infrastructure teams…
Deploying a JHipster app to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk
JHipster [https://www.jhipster.tech/] is a great development platform to help you bootstrap a…
Hybrid Cloud - Cloud Responsibly
In this post, we’ll describe the hybrid cloud concept, the benefits it provides, and…
Containerize your Spring Boot app with JIB
Java developers are familiar with building war or jar files using their preferred tools but…
How Kubernetes Add to Your Business
Monolithic applications have been the industry norm for years, however, we here at Ippon have…
This article is not about the latest experiment in the space industry. It is just…
Implement a Continuous Code Quality approach
Imagine waking up in the morning and find a huge puddle of water in the…