Home-as-a-service

Prelude Today I’m gonna talk about how you can leverage Traefik2, k3s, Cloudflare, and RaspberryPI to get the best out of your…apartment. After the image, I’ll go through the setup of everything needed! Why Traefik2 For those of you who never heard the word Traefik before, here it is: Traefik is an open-source Edge Router that makes publishing your services seamless. I already made some experiments in the past (look at my two-pieces series I run VSC in the browser and I am just fine - Part I and My team run VSC in the browser and they are just fine - Part II) and I’ve always been fascinated by the way Traefik just works. And… it’s written in Golang! Since I recently had to deal a lot with SSO and k8s (I finally made my raspberry cluster with pi4 and k3s, a more specific blog post is coming), I wanted to extend my experience with Traefik moving to the 2nd version of the tool and leveraging IngressRoute. Moreover, I used Google and Traefik2 Middleware to forward requests and authenticate them using my Google account. The cool thing is that if you already own a domain, a Google account, and a k3s cluster (both running on-premise at home and in cloud if they didn’t end up fired), you can get everything described in this article for free! 🥳 ...

March 24, 2021 · 10 min

How to: create a fleet of container-based-go-lambda with one command

Introduction As you might know, at the re:Invent AWS recently announced the capabilities of running Lambda by getting the code directly from a docker image you provide, as illustrated here. Moreover, they also announced the Amazon ECR Public and Amazon ECR Public Gallery that you can reach at https://gallery.ecr.aws/. And this was pretty much my reaction: What you might need to know before begin First of all: keep calm, because there’s already a Github Repo to build an entire fleet of microservices - with their respective ECR-based repository - with only one command from the shell. Hopefully, you can get up and running by simply opening a shell, cloning my repo, change the AWS_PROFILE_NAME at the top of the Makefile to point to your profile, and run: ...

December 12, 2020 · 6 min

I hacked my blog to let AWS Polly create podcast over it

Prelude Hi guys, after a series of back-to-the-future-I-didn’t-have-time-to-write-new-things… I’m back. What happened in the last months… ok, covid19 put the whole world in trouble, I bought an apartment, I opened a company and I resign my contract. Really. Nothing. Special. But TODAY - I wanna talk about a project I have since a while, and I worked on a boring Sunday afternoon: I hacked my blog to let Polly read it for you! 😎 😎 😎 ...

November 26, 2020 · 13 min

My team run VSC in the browser and they are just fine - Part II

Introduction This is a repost of an old article :) In the first part of this series - I run VSC in the browser and I was just fine - I wrote many stupid things around the possibility of having a VSC server instance running inside AWS over a simple, immutable, ec2 instance. The template {that can be easily deployed by a Lambda function [that can be easily deployed behind a route53 record (that can be easily placed as the endpoint of a custom Slack action)]} let you start your IDE and code from wherever you would like to. In this second part, I wanna talk about how to extend the same idea to serve a Team of developers. Yes, like the one below. ...

October 22, 2020 · 15 min

I run VSC in the browser and I am just fine - Part I

Introduction This is a repost of an old article - that actually also inspired my talk of the last year at FullStackConf2019 :) Serverless and managed things are the best choices if you don’t want to deal with infrastructure (3 2 1: fight) buuuuut…even immutable things are not so bad for this purpose - at least, if they are immutable for real 🤣 Today I wanna talk about a useful way to run an instance(s) of VSC server in AWS and code from everywhere (yes, even your iPad): let’s start! ...

September 21, 2020 · 10 min

?(DRY(KIS(afe)S)) => CF(ALB+TLS+SM);

Intro If you work with AWS, you might be involved in building infrastructure to enable some of your customers (both internal and external) to use a particular service, or just to try one of the hundreds open-source application available on Github. Furthermore, most of the ML/AI tools are shipped in docker containers and the philosophy -> if it runs on docker, it runs everywhere has been spread up to the highest level of management (nice, but… sometimes dangerous 😅 ed. ) And it’s pretty much true, buuuuut… ...

February 1, 2020 · 11 min

My team run VSC in the browser and they are just fine - Part II

Introduction In the first part of this series - I run VSC in the browser and I was just fine - I wrote many stupid things around the possibility of having a VSC server instance running inside AWS over a simple, immutable, ec2 instance. The template {that can be easily deployed by a Lambda function [that can be easily deployed behind a route53 record (that can be easily placed as the endpoint of a custom Slack action)]} let you start your IDE and code from wherever you would like to. In this second part, I wanna talk about how to extend the same idea to serve a Team of developers. Yes, like the one below. ...

July 3, 2019 · 15 min

I run VSC in the browser and I am just fine - Part I

Introduction Serverless and managed things are the best choices if you don’t want to deal with infrastructure (3 2 1: fight) buuuuut…even immutable things are not so bad for this purpose - at least, if they are immutable for real 🤣 Today I wanna talk about a useful way to run an instance(s) of VSC server in AWS and code from everywhere (yes, even your iPad): let’s start! This time I will go native: so no CDK, I’m sorry, but pure Cloudformation instead. If you are not interested in all the astonishing things I have to say, you can find the template here. ...

June 25, 2019 · 10 min

A serverless OCR with Polly and Rekognition unveils the power of stack inheritance in CDK

Introduction In the last two weeks, I released a few CDK stacks: I made some experiments around API Gateway and service integration that came out in two serverless forms, the Contact Form and the Upload Form, read to be deployed in your static web page 😎. Actually, with CDK you can do so much more and so much more easily. The last stack I released - a producer-consumer chain presented here - it was a way I used to introduce how you can leverage Typescript inheritance to recycle an old stack and build on top of it. In this last step of this cycle, I will extend this concept once again to build - DRUMROLL - an OCR Serverless solution to be integrated into your application. The use cases are multiple: imagine you want to create podcasts of course lessons on top of your notes, to be able to listen to them during your trip to office or university or whenever you want. Imagine an application to help blind people - like the Be My Eyes app - to read documents without the help of no ones but AWS Services. Well, the use cases are endless so… let’s go! ...

June 13, 2019 · 8 min

SQS Extended: a serverless producer/consumer chain

Introduction A few days ago I wrote about a simple stack that leverage API Gateway and Lambda-proxy integration to create a safe upload endpoint to let unknown users push inside a bucket of your choice. The stack I will present today is can be used to build a producer-consumer chain, by implementing the SQS Extended pattern you can find in AWS exams. For the most curious, here you can find the core code. ...

June 4, 2019 · 5 min