It's the 3rd week of January 2024. The Community Builder form for the current year is probably already closed, right? Ah, it's not true. It will be closed on the 27th of January, so you still have some time - 5 days. If you need a TLDR, go and apply as fast as possible! Do it now! If you've already applied, I have some …

Based on the success of my latest article (CHATGPT!), I've decided to continue in that direction by creating shorter and more user-friendly content. Today, I have some thoughts and feelings to share about a complex topic. Recently, I was asked to prepare a sample infrastructure for an OKD cluster from scratch, without …

Hey there, my friends! Today, I want to share with you the top 5 use cases of ChatGPT in my daily job. But before we dive in, let me tell you a little story. Recently, I made the switch from Obsidian to Logseq, for note-taking, and it got me into the habit of preferring shorter form in general. So, let's get straight …

As you may know, I had the opportunity to speak publicly during AWS Community Day Warsaw. The talk was about a non-trivial challenge related to AWS services. Since there was no recording available and the slides alone are not sufficient, I decided to write a blog post to document this homegrown project. During the …

I started writing this on April 7th, 2023, a few weeks after the release of VPC Lattice (although it's not yet available everywhere). I was curious about what it is and what it's supposed to do, so I asked ChatGPT. As there isn't much information available yet, I'll rely on the official documentation for now. According …

Use your imagination and assume that some team was encouraged to migrate from Azure AppService. It was a decision at a high level, so the small dev team needs to migrate into AWS. What's the issue you can ask? They have no experience with Amazon Web Services, also they don’t have a "DevOps" person. The app is a JAR …

Let's keep this article short. The topic is rather popular, but not very well documented. It's based on quite a popular issue, which is about untagged EC2. Sometimes developers launch virtual machines, without tags. Why it's so important? Because without tags, you have no idea about the machine's purpose. You have no …

It will be nice to solve another real-world problem, isn’t it? For example machines in private subnets, behind the NAT, or on rack shelves in an office. All of them need to be managed - at least from time to time. Ansible is great, I appreciated the creators of this tool. It helps me a lot! In different cases, …

I have a daughter! What a piece of news, isn't it? I can also add again the same line: Newsletter is very time-consuming, and being a consultant is time-consuming. Everything is time-consuming. However, I had some spare time to play a bit with a small client's project. For example, not everyone needs cutting-edge …