Who has never found themselves in the middle of surfing the internet when faced with an ugly error page ? These kind of pages are the default error pages of web servers like Apache or Nginx. More recently, you may also come across the Cloudfront default errors : Nothing could be worse in terms of…
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Running a Web Application with 100% AWS Fargate Spot Containers 🤘
One of the major advantages of using the Cloud is its Pay-Per-Use model. To make the most of this model, the challenge is to find the computing capacity at the best price that matches your workload. I’m going to explain in this article how I could run a web application in 100% Fargate Spot containers….
Authenticating your GitLab CI runner to an AWS ECR registry using Amazon ECR Docker Credential Helper 🔑
GitLab CI allows you to run your CI/CD jobs in separate and isolated Docker containers. For maximum flexibility, you may need to run your jobs from a self-created Docker image tailored to your project’s specific needs. You can store this self-created and private Docker image in an AWS ECR registry. In this tutorial I will…
Best Practices to protect an RDS MySQL Database ✅
Amazon RDS is a very popular choice for creating MySQL databases in the cloud. Many modern companies use it to store their business data. However, as with any other database, securing these databases requires special attention to protect against potential threats and vulnerabilities. In this article, we will explore 10 best practices for securing your…
How to Run a Shell on ECS Fargate Containers 💻
If you need to troubleshoot or debug your ECS Fargate containers, you may want to open a terminal on them. There are two options available to open a shell on an ECS container: with SSH or using the ECS CLI, a command-line tool provided by AWS. The first option may create potential drawbacks and security…
Securing your AWS Load Balancer with Cognito Authentification: A Step-by-Step Guide for Cloud Engineers 🔐
In the cloud age, it’s common to expose applications running on containers or virtual machines through a load balancer. By doing that, cloud engineers can ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability for their services. The load balancer acts as a single point of contact for users and automatically routes incoming traffic to the most available…
Behind the Scenes of a Prime Time News-TV : A Site Reliability Engineer’s Story 📺
As a Site Reliability Engineer, my job is to ensure that our website and infrastructure can handle high traffic and unexpected spikes. But today was a particularly big day in my career – the CEO of my company was being interviewed by TF1, the largest TV channel in France, and the interview was going to…
Maximizing Savings on GitLab CI/CD with AWS Fargate 🤑
Are you tired of high costs for running your GitLab CI/CD jobs? If so, you’re not alone. Many developers and organizations struggle with the expenses associated with their continuous integration and delivery pipelines. However, there is a solution that can help you reduce these costs: running your GitLab CI/CD jobs on AWS Fargate. AWS Fargate…
Handling graceful shutdown of your Docker Cron containers
With the increasing popularity of Docker as a containerization platform, it is important for developers to understand how to properly shut down their containers to avoid potential data loss or corruption. In this article, we will discuss the importance of handling graceful shutdown of your Docker Cron containers and how to handle signals. Why is…
How to protect a website against DoS Attack using AWS WAF v2
Denial of Service attacks are commons in these times. In my company we receive from time to time such an attack. For example on September 26th someone did almost one million requests in 1 hour on our servers and it was blocked by our AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF v2) : I will detail in this…