ARGLabs
It's a fictitious company that aims to run everything in native cloud services doing everything as code to get the best results in culture, cost, support, technology and monitoring. We achieve that with no AWS Console access, no team lock-in by empowering dev teams while ensuring best practices and guardrails and...
No Kubernetes.
K8s is a DevOps anti-pattern.
Main Links
- Creating new apps on the ARGLabs platform
- How to reproduce ARGLabs
- ARGLabs Index, Roadmap and Changelog
Context
Why ?
Just to raise the bar. I’m always trying to make things better and I see people still don’t see the Cloud as I see.
Most people still see the cloud as just an infrastructure provider, like a datacenter on steroids, and that’s why they insist to create an infrastructure layer on top of virtual machines. Because it’s the only thing they know. They don’t see the problem that Cloud solved. They still need to be “the infrastructure guys” team. Some of them even put hostnames on servers nowadays!
To anyone that still think like this, to anyone having problem with infrastructure/devops/sre teams that still think like this, welcome to ARGLabs. ARGLabs is the place where I can show you why do I think that Cloud Computing, when used the right way, is the tool to solve the problem DevOps culture tries to solve since decades.
Latest posts
- Creating new apps on the ARGLabs platform
Main Links
application
aws
deployment
ecs
iam
pipelines
terraform
A video walk through of how a new app is created on the ARGLabs platform: a repository, its pipeline, and the deploy, all from code.
- How to reproduce ARGLabs
Main Links
aws
bigbang
pipelines
terraform
Everything, step by step, you need to reproduce the entire environment on your own AWS account.
- Scalability on ECS
Best Practices
aws
ecs
terraform
Nine rounds of load tests on ECS Fargate: what each arglabs-tfmod-ecs-app scaling option does, measured, and how to make an app scale in 40 s.
- Running the ARGLabs apps on EKS instead of ECS: effort, cost, monitoring and verdict
Best Practices
costs
ecs
eks
What moving arglabs-workload, the status page and Dependency-Track from ECS Fargate to EKS would cost in effort, money and monitoring. Answer: do not migrate.
- How should repository variables and secrets get onto containers?
Best Practices
ecs
pipelines
secrets
terraform
A Bitbucket variable ENV_NAME reaches the container as NAME, and SECRET_NAME goes through Secrets Manager. Adding one never touches Terraform, pipeline or code.