https://www.riz-1.com/ Notes on code related stuff 2026-02-11T10:40:12+00:00 Riz https://www.riz-1.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Riz /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-11T10:39:58+00:00 https://www.riz-1.com/posts/modular-monolith-copy/ Riz

Microservices are a popular architectural style for building scalable and maintainable applications. However, they also introduce complexity and overhead. Microservices are great for large applications with many teams working on different parts of the application, but for smaller applications and teams, a modular monolith can be a better choice. Below is a comparison between microservices and ...

2026-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://www.riz-1.com/posts/local-developmemt-with-docker-compose/ Riz

Applications generally have external dependencies, such as databases, message queues, and other services. Setting up and managing these dependencies can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially for developers who are new to the application. Docker Compose is a tool that allows you to define and manage multi-container Docker applications. It provides a simple way to set up and run your appl...

2024-07-25T00:00:00+01:00 2024-07-25T13:07:12+01:00 https://www.riz-1.com/posts/deploy-k3s/ Riz

K3s is an option for deploying a minimal k8s environment, when a full k8s environment may not be required, for example development and testing. This deployment method should work on EC2 instances, VMs, and bare-metal servers. It has been tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and Amazon Linux 2. The following components are deployed: K3s with containerd as the container runtime Ingress nginx Helm Ar...

2024-06-20T00:00:00+01:00 2024-06-20T16:51:49+01:00 https://www.riz-1.com/posts/sealed-secrets/ Riz

Bitnami’s sealed secrets allow secure storage of secrets in plain text such as in Git repos. The secrets are encrypted using a public key, the private key stays in the cluster, only the operator running in the cluster can decrypt. Sealed secrets also rotates the keypair’s every 30 days. The standard k8s secret is passed into kubeseal, which produces SealedSecret yaml The SealedSecret yaml...

2024-06-12T00:00:00+01:00 2024-06-13T21:08:56+01:00 https://www.riz-1.com/posts/deploy-eks-cluster/ Riz

This terraform project will create a ready to use cluster with the necessary addons and features. All the source is available here: https://github.com/rizvn/eks-terraform The following tapology will be deployed: VPC with 3 public subnets 3 private subnets NAT Gateway EKS cluster with OIDC enabled for IRSA With Addons C...