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Handy Ops Tools (2020 Edition)

Handy Ops Tools (2020 Edition)

I've been working in Operations for about 10 years now. In that time I've worked in big corporate, small business, and all sizes of Government, and I've come across a lot of tools. I thought I'd share some of the tools I use on a daily basis that are free and do their jobs excellently.

Let's Embark! Kubernetes Secrets and AWS SSM (Part 4)

Let's Embark! Kubernetes Secrets and AWS SSM (Part 4)

Here we have a simple solution that can be used to inject secrets into your Kubernetes Clusters with minimal effort, when you do not have strict security requirements for your workloads.

Let's Embark! Securing our Ingress with Let's Encrypt (Part 3)

Let's Embark! Securing our Ingress with Let's Encrypt (Part 3)

Time to secure our cluster to ensure our traffic can't be snooped on by any baddies. In part 3, we use JetStack's `cert-manager` to automatically provision certificates and secure communication between the user and our `nginx-ingress` pods.

A white door, with an exit sign to the right of the door.

Let's Embark! Setting up Ingress (Part 2)

Let's get up and running using `nginx-ingress` on our Kubernetes cluster.

curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error

curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error

Doing a bit of work in my off-time, I hit the error "curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol". It caused me a lot of pain, and took me a while to solve. Hopefully I can solve it for you much more quickly than I solved it for me!