You might have or have not heard about the Global Squad Project, it’s a project I have been working on for a couple of months, and I’ve created a post explaining what is the idea in depth. If you are interested in the idea behind this post, take a look Continue Reading
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Cloud Migration – Costs
Moving your infrastructure to the cloud is not always an easy task, especially when we talk about costs, which is, most likely, the main reason to do the migration. The cost prediction can be less painful using the Pricing Calculator, this tool can save you a lot of time and Continue Reading
Prometheus with Grafana
Prometheus is an Open Source tool used to monitor nearly everything, it has a bunch of integrations, you can check it here Before you start, please have a look at the config files needed here: https://github.com/globalsquadproject/monitoring Node Exporter The node exporter is very important to Prometheus, it’s responsible for exposing Continue Reading
Global Squad Project
Hello, as you might know, my name is Carlos, I’m a System Engineer working with infrastructure since 2005 and currently working with Cloud through DevOps concepts, so why am I introducing myself? Because I need to give to you a bit of background about me in order to present the Continue Reading
???? ADR – Architecture Decision Record
ADR stands for Architecture Decision Record, is a document where decisions are made, the place where we put all the information about something that involves your architecture, could be a decision to start using new software, could be a decision to choose a new cloud provider, etc. Usually, this decision Continue Reading
???????? I stand with Ukraine
It’s so sad to watch what is happening in Ukraine, it’s unacceptable what Putin is doing, really hope and pray for the Russian attacks stops, nothing can explain killing people, it’s a war to fulfill Putin’s wishes. Some measures have been taken from companies around the world, several companies have Continue Reading
Hashicorp Vault with GitLab
The best way to protect our secrets is using a proper Vault for that, here we gonna see how we can integrate GitLab with Hashicorp Vault and retrieve secrets using JWT method. For testing purposes, I used the Hashicorp Vault managed solution, which means the enterprise version.The enterprise version has Continue Reading
9️⃣’s – Three, Four, Five Nines of availability
For many systems, high availability is crucial to survive, honor the SLA’s with (internal or external) customers. To achieve a high SLA with three, four or even five nines a redundant infrastructure is needed, there is no other way to achieve that if you don’t have your architecture redundant. Five-nines Continue Reading
???? Covid-19
This is not the most exciting post that I would like to do. It has been a year since the pandemic hit us hard. An entire year working from home, everything looks quite different, it’s not easy at all, it’s something that we all have to deal together, but never Continue Reading
???? Spotify playlist #1
Do you like working listening to music? I would say, music in my life is crucial, therefore I always try to include it in my routine, life, and work routine as well. I’ve created a Spotify playlist to share with you guys, this one is Hard Core one, I was Continue Reading