GraphQL federation is great to use when you want a single API/gateway for all your queries. The simple to-go approach is schema stitching, where you run a gateway microservice which targets all other microservices and composes a graph. This works …
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CI/CD for Apollo GraphQL Managed Federation
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GraphQL federation is great to use when you want a single API/gateway for all your queries. The simple to-go approach is schema stitching, where you run a gateway microservice which targets all other microservices and composes a graph. This works …
NestJS Apollo GraphQL Prometheus Metrics and Grafana Dashboards
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Apollo GraphQL and NestJS are gaining traction quickly, however the monitoring approaches are unclear. At the moment (late 2021 / early 2022) there are no default exporters or libraries for Prometheus metrics and the same goes for Grafana dashboards, this …
Creating Awesome Alertmanager Templates for Slack
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Prometheus, Grafana and Alertmanager is the default stack for me when deploying a monitoring system. The Prometheus and Grafana bits are well documented and there exists tons of open source approaches on how to make use of them the best. …
GitOps Secret Management with Vault, ArgoCD and Tanka
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Recently I wrote a blog post on how to use Grafana's Tanka with ArgoCD which is my prefered way to write Kubernetes configuration in Jsonnet. However, the post does not go into detail on the last missing piece - how …
Using the Ducky One 2 Mini with Vim
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Due to the keyboard being 60% they've moved the arrow keys to I,J,K,L which seems logical, however if your using Vim this gets confusing as you are using H,J,K,L as arrow keys. The Up arrow key is K in Vim …
GitOps with ArgoCD and Tanka
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GitOps is becoming the standard of doing continuous delivery. Define your state in Git, automatically update and change the state when pull requests are merged. Within the Kubernetes ecosystem two tools have become very popular for doing this FluxCD and …
Migrating Kubernetes Resources between ArgoCD Applications
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I've been using ArgoCD for a while now, and as time went by I started to splitting my Kubernetes resources into smaller ArgoCD Applications. However, I could not figure out clear guidelines on how to do it without downtime. Recently …
Correlating Continuous Deployments with Application Metrics using Grafana's Github Plugin
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GitOps is becoming the standard of doing continuous deployments. Define your application state in Git, automatically update and change the state when pull requests are merged. This means that deployments happens continuously, usually multiple times a day. There's a good …
Migrating Kubernetes PersistentVolumes across Regions and AZs on AWS
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Persistent volumes in AWS are tied to one Availability Zone(AZ), therefore if you were to create a cluster in an AZ where the volume is not created in you would not be able to use it. You will need to …
Creating a Low Cost Managed Kubernetes Cluster for Personal Development using Terraform
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Kubernetes is an open-source system that's popular amongst developers. It automatically deploys, scales, and manages containerized applications. Yet for those working outside of the traditional startup or corporate setting, Kubernetes can be CPU and memory-intensive, disincentivizing developers from using a …
