Derek Berger

Nov 1, 2024 | mdpi.com | Kevin Saville |Derek Berger |Jacob Levman

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Oct 7, 2024 | dev.to | Derek Berger

IntroductionThe AWS load balancer controller is a key enabler for running services in Amazon EKS, using AWS APIs to provision load balancer resources. But this controller can help with more than just everyday management of load balancers. For instance, it greatly simplified how my team released APIs during a major project to rewrite our services in a new language. BackgroundOur application follows a common pattern for running microservices in EKS.

Aug 14, 2024 | dev.to | Derek Berger

IntroductionGitHub Actions’ seamless integration with version control simplifies creating and executing operations and infrastructure workflows. Two key features of Actions for building efficient workflows are:Composite actions. Composite actions let you create combinations of steps that you can reuse across different kinds of workflows. Job outputs. Outputs make values derived from one job's steps available to downstream jobs' steps.