Recent Articles on the tecRacer AWS Blog

When deploying AWS infrastructure via Terraform, the usage of long-term IAM credentials is often the go-to method. Even though convenient, long-term credentials and secrets can pose a serious security risk to your organization if leaked. This post will show you how you can leverage AWS IAM OpenID Connect identity providers in combination with GitHub Actions and identity federation to implement a secretless Terraform deployment pipeline…using Terraform.

While traditional Infrastructure as Code tools offer a multitude of benefits, they usually fail to meet the security and compliance requirements of modern security-focused organizations when managing infrastructure at scale. This post will show you how you can leverage Open Policy Agent and Policy as Code to automate security and compliance procedures as well as enforce custom policies across an organization at scale.

This is the story of how an undocumented API call became an official one.

Up to a few years back, writing Dockerfiles was easy. In many cases, it still is - unless you are working with a mixed fleet of Intel and ARM-based processors. Are you familiar with this situation and you do not want to maintain two almost identical Dockerfiles? There is a solution…

GitHub does not support any ARM GitHub Actions Runner. So what now? Build it within your AWS environment! The results are pretty cool: You have full control over the Runners and have no more time constraints like long-running workflows that consume Runners usage minutes. I will guide you through the basics of creating an AWS EC2 instance and installing the minimum requirements on the OS for having a running GitHub Actions Runner.

Sometimes, developing a fully-fledged Lambda is not feasible, is too much work, or is simply outside of the knowledge domain of the people involved. But what if we could run plain Bash scripts instead?

When implementing REST APIs in AWS there is one service that always comes to mind - Amazon API Gateway. Even though feature-rich, properly documenting your API may become a time-consuming task relatively quickly. In this post, I would like to show you how you can use Swagger UI in combination with a serverless deployment to automatically generate interactive and up-to-date documentation for your APIs.

AWS BI Solution Amazon QuickSight is a powerful tool to build interactive analyses or dashboards. In this blog post we will see how to get started with designing such analyses.