Our journey navigating the techosphere
Moving fast and making things. This post has two goals - to share the story of a quick tool we created to solve a problem, and share a template that can be adapted easily for any Slack bot slash command to run a Python script in AWS Lambda.…
A high level overview of the problems we found with our AWS account architecture and how we solved them…
A Shared Network Connecting cloud projects together and to on-prem services is a standard problem of organisations. At OVO we use the 10.0.0.0/8 CIDR block for our internal network. This range is split into subnets for each office, AWS or GCP project, or on-pr…
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If you’re using Helm as your Kubernetes package manager, it’s likely the command-line tool already fulfils your use-cases, as it ships with a lot of functionality. One thing that’s missing, though, is snapshot/restore. Existing commands such as install, delete…
At OVO we have many cloud projects which need connectivity to services in our datacenter. We have VPNs setup to securely route connections between projects and on-prem services. One issue with this configuration is name resolution within AWS VPCs. The DHCP op…
There are many good articles available that discuss in depth the difference between imperative and declarative style programming. Here I'm going to take a look at a very narrow subset of this debate, that of Infrastructure as Code, (Iac), and hopefully show of…