DevOps Engineer
14 articles
By Jose López
Setting up Gateway VPC Endpoints on Terraform to reduce your AWS bill
Gateway VPC Endpoints might come in handy to save money on your AWS bill, in this article we learn what they are and how to set them up!
Jun 1, 2022
How we used Cloudflare Argo Tunnels + Access to replace a VPN
An alternative to a VPN provided by Cloudflare, and how we set it up on AWS using Terraform
Mar 15, 2021
Setting up a Cloudflare Argo Tunnel on AWS Fargate.
A complete guide to set up a Cloudflare Argo Tunnel on AWS Fargate.
Nov 8, 2020
Sending notifications to Slack using AWS Chatbot.
A guide to set up AWS Chatbot service to send custom notifications to a Slack channel using Terraform.
Aug 3, 2020
Autoscale Celery workers on ECS Fargate based on RabbitMQ metrics.
Autoscale Celery workers on ECS Fargate based on RabbitMQ queue depth metrics pushed to CloudWatch using a Lambda function.
Apr 3, 2020
Avoid Cloudflare bypassing by using secret headers.
How-to avoid bypassing Cloudflare protection by using Cloudflare Workers to add a secret header.
Mar 10, 2020
Store app secrets on ENV vars using AWS Secrets Manager and Terraform.
How to manage secrets of an application running on ECS as environment variables using AWS Secrets Manager and Terraform.
Feb 12, 2020
Manage logs of a Python app on AWS Fargate using Datadog Logs and CloudWatch.
How-to configure a Python (Django) on AWS Fargate app to send logs to both CloudWatch and Datadog using FireLens.
Dec 30, 2019
Monitoring external services status using RSS and Slack.
Monitoring external services (AWS, Cloudflare, DockerHub) and report status to Slack.
Dec 19, 2019
Monitoring CodePipeline deployments.
Monitoring AWS CodePipeline deployments and report status to Slack.
Dec 12, 2019
APM using Datadog.
Application performance management (APM) on a Django application running on ECS Fargate using Datadog APM.
Dec 6, 2019
Monitoring CloudWatch key metrics using Slack and manage them using Terraform.
Key metrics to monitor using AWS CloudWatch, track them using Slack and manage them using Terraform.
Nov 18, 2019
Enforce MFA for AWS IAM users.
How to enforce MFA for AWS IAM users and automate AWS temporary keys generation.
Jul 29, 2019
Deploy Wasabi using a remote Cassandra cluster and RDS.
Wasabi is a real-time, 100% API driven, A/B Testing platform. We will see how to deploy it on AWS along with Cassandra and a MySQL RDS.
Sep 15, 2018