My Experience with default values I have created few Terraform resources with the modules provided to me and it simply worked. However I started reviewing my experience and key points of my experiences are : Smile on my face ! :-) It worked at first go ! :-) Resources got created without any user intervention…

My Observations Certificates and the TLS world is always hard to understand for many of the software engineers. The lack of consistency in naming the various certificate related files does not help it either ! In my recent projects I came across various certificate files with different naming patterns and extensions …

In this post we will look at how to create Private CA and Certificates using Terraform. If you want to create this using OpenSSL refer the following post. How to set up Private CA and use the certificates issued by Private CA ? In this post we will look atamod-kadam.medium.com The terraform code will create following. This can be logically divided into two parts. Part I — Setting up Private CA Create…

In this post we will look at How to create a Private CA ? Issue server certificate signed by Private CA Configure Server Certificate on the web server (e.g. nginx server ) Verify the working Note : The approach and steps discussed here are suitable for the development environment and…

WireGuard is a fast, modern, and easy-to-setup VPN solution, but it can be used to setup ‘Encryption in Transit’ within the private or internal network. Context The SOA-based solution was built almost 7–8 years back live environments for a number of customers. There are several technology stacks involved, including Windows, Linux…

I have used Elastic Network Interfaces in the AWS world but never had to deal with network interfaces on the Linux side directly.While working with WireGuard (VPN Solution) I had to go one step further into network interfaces. This post focuses on the very essential takeaways on linux network interfaces…

Kubeconfig organises information about clusters, users, namespaces and authentication mechanism. The kubectl uses kubeconfig to find the information it needs to choose a cluster and communicate with the API Server of a cluster. By default it looks for a file named config in the $HOME/.kube directory. In this post we…

I stumbled once again when I was exposing the Kubernetes service via Network Load Balancer and discovered two ways of creating NLB in EKS. Have you ? Why I stumbled upon confluence between AWS Load Balancers and Kubernetes Service ? You have setup your Amazon EKS cluster,deployed application as Pods and now want to access the application over the…amod-kadam.medium.com Scenario EKS cluster is setup

You have setup your Amazon EKS cluster, deployed application as Pods and now want to access the application over the Internet or outside the EKS cluster. In the AWS world similar use case is typically satisfied by provisioning AWS Load Balancer in front of your application which could be running…