Andrei Maksimov

I’m a passionate Cloud Infrastructure Architect with more than 15 years of experience in IT. Any of my posts represent my personal experience and opinion about the topic.

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Quick And Simple Introduction to Kubernetes Helm Charts in 10 minutes

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This article will walk you through the Helm installation process and basic usage scenarios. We’ll briefly walk you through the process of packaging the Kubernetes application to a Helm chart. Kubernetes is an excellent platform for running your container applications, but it lacks application state descriptions using manifest files. Luckily for us, the Kubernetes community …

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AWS Lambda – How to process DynamoDB streams

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Imagine, you decided to launch a Serverless project at Amazon Web Services. In most cases, AWS Lambda and DynamoDB would be your technology choice. In this article, we’ll cover one of the most common use case of AWS Lambda – DynamoDB streams processing. As soon as your project grows, you may start looking for a …

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Top Frameworks For Serverless Applications Development

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Are you eager to learn and use Serverless technology and its frameworks? “Now” is always a good time. In this article, we’ll provide a review of the most popular ones. And we hope, you’ll be able to pick the most suitable framework for your needs. During the last couple of years, Serverless computing has gained …

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Security Best Practices For Serverless Applications

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Table Of Contents Use the principle of Least Privilege where possible. Use secure storage for storing secrets. Ensure Secure Communication of Transit Data. Ensure Proper Authentication and Authorization using API Gateway. Log and Monitor Functions. Establish Secure Coding Practices. Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle. Integrate WAF but don’t rely completely on it. Correctly Define IAM Roles …

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Using AWS Lambda For Governance And Compliance Automation

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Table Of Contents Setting up AWS Config. Setting-up AWS Config via the CLI. Adding Compliance Rules to AWS Config. Viewing Configuration Compliance. Via the Web console. Via the CLI. Custom Config Rules with AWS Lambda. Associating the Lambda with a Custom Rule in AWS Config. Cleanup. Conclusion. Additional resources. If the phrase “governance and compliance” …

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How to build Anaconda Python Data Science Docker container

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In this article, we’ll build a Docker container for Machine Learning (ML) development environment. This image is quite useful if you’re developing ML models or you need a pre-configured Jupyter notebook with some of the most useful libraries. Recently we published an article Quick And Simple Introduction to Kubernetes Helm Charts in 10 minutes, where you …

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Terraform – Deploy Lambda To Copy Files Between S3 Buckets

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Many frameworks exist on the market right now, which allows you to deploy your serverless infrastructure. But what if you have an on-going project, which uses Terraform as an infrastructure management tool? What if you’re apprehensive about changing your technology stack? In this article, we’ll show you in detail on how to start your Serverless …

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Cloud CRON – Scheduled Lambda Functions

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This article covers how to build a Serverless Cron solution and launch scheduled jobs at AWS cloud using CloudWatch Events and Lambda functions at almost no cost. As usual, we’re providing some additional reading to those of you, who interested. If you’re looking for a solution only, please, jump here. Benefits Of Using Scheduled AWS Lambda …

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Using SNS And SQS As Target For AWS Lambda Dead Letter Queue

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As soon as you’re starting developing microservice applications in the Serverless world, you start accepting the idea, that sometimes your microservices may fail. And it’s OK if it does not affect your application or your customer. So, in this article, we cover pros and cons of usage of SQS and SNS as Lambda Dead Letter …

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