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Terraform - Beginner Pitfalls

Terraform - Beginner Pitfalls

After a rocky start, Terraform has become a great success story where I am. We've got both infrastructure and development teams using it, sharing both learnings and resources such as modules and code. A consequence of that is I spent quite a lot of my time helping people

The Definition of Done Dashboard

The Definition of Done Dashboard

I've been working on an infrastructure-heavy project of late, and one of the problems our team faced was differing viewpoints on what "done" actually means. In short, we ended up with a lot of variations of the following conversation: "It's done, I finished

Where is my NuGet API Key?

This turns out to be one of the Great Secrets of the Internet, and I wasted around half an hour scanning documentation, Googling various permutations of "NuGet API Key" and "How to find NuGet API Key" before finally finding Phil Haack's page here: http:

Load Balancing and Health Checks

Load Balancing and Health Checks

It's pretty common to want to load balance a web application across multiple nodes. The canonical implementation looks something like this: Traffic comes in from the public Internet to the load balancer, which then distributes it amongst the available application servers. There are various tricks you can employ

Setting up Docker and Docker Compose on AWS

Setting up Docker and Docker Compose on AWS

For most of my Docker development, I use William Yeh's Docker-enabled Vagrant boxes [https://github.com/William-Yeh/docker-enabled-vagrant], but for Amazon Web Services I quite often find myself on a default Amazon Linux AMI which doesn't come as readily set up out of the box. The

25 Minute ELK Stack With Docker - Part 4

25 Minute ELK Stack With Docker - Part 4

I'm going to take a slightly different route with this article. Previously ( Part 1 [https://mattkimber.co.uk/elk-stack-in-25-minutes-with-docker/] | Part 2 [https://mattkimber.co.uk/25-minute-elk-stack-with-docker-part-2/] | Part 3 [https://mattkimber.co.uk/25-minute-elk-stack-with-docker-part-3/]), we set up an ELK stack almost anyone could use, providing they set up the

25 Minute ELK Stack with Docker - Part 3

25 Minute ELK Stack with Docker - Part 3

In previous articles in this series (Part 1 [https://mattkimber.co.uk/elk-stack-in-25-minutes-with-docker/] | Part 2 [https://mattkimber.co.uk/25-minute-elk-stack-with-docker-part-2/]) we set up a functioning ELK stack in 25 minutes, and added nginx for a reverse proxy with some basic authentication. Now we have that ELK stack, it's

25 Minute ELK Stack With Docker - Part 2

25 Minute ELK Stack With Docker - Part 2

In the last article in this series [https://mattkimber.co.uk/elk-stack-in-25-minutes-with-docker/] we set up a functioning ELK stack in 25 minutes. But we left a few things still to do for a production-quality system; some form of authentication, tuning ElasticSearch to prevent queue-limit problems with large quantities of data,