So you started down the path of using Kubernetes and everything has been a dream! You were able to deploy workloads with immense speed and efficiency and you were able to integrate your various services with each other with ease. Then you realized that requests were failing every time you…

Terraform is a very powerful tool that can be used to create infrastructure as code. It makes it very easy to build consistently repeatable infrastructure. Terraform has a huge API that allows for easy defining of almost anything that you can imagine that would exist in AWS, GCP, Azure, and…

When I first started looking into how to use Spinnaker I immersed myself in their documentation and in various videos available on YouTube. There are quite a few good resources available to help in getting started with Spinnaker, and more documentation is always being added. From my understanding…

Writing distributed services in Go is made easier through the use of go-kit. If you haven’t already used go-kit, I definitely recommend checking it out. You can learn most of the basics by working through this example. For this post, you basically need to understand that go-kit offers the ability…

I have run into a road block in my AWS EKS cluster due to the Amazon VPC CNI. The blocking issues for me are that the CNI limits the number of pods that can be scheduled on each k8s node according to the number of IP Addresses available to each…

After many hours of struggling with getting my go application to build within the building of my docker image, I decided this information could be useful to others. The problem I experienced, and likely why you are reading this, is that in order to fetch go dependencies from a private…

Lately I have been playing with go-kit to try to understand how I can use it to build microservices. There are a variety of examples available here, but unfortunately, not all of them are well documented. I specifically wanted to figure out how to use the Api Gateway example, so…