Simplifying AWS CloudTrail Log Analysis using NLP

Introduction Cloud security auditing is critical but often tedious and time-consuming. AWS CloudTrail logs every API call and user activity, offering a detailed audit trail. But combing through these logs manually or writing complex CloudWatch Insights queries is a painful and error-prone task. We at KubeNine have built an AI-powered

Why We Chose Vaultwarden for Password Management — And Why It Might Work for You

Introduction When we started looking for password managers for our DevOps team, Bitwarden Cloud was a natural first stop. It’s trusted, secure, and user-friendly — but it came with limitations that didn’t sit well with our priorities as a self-hosting, cost-conscious DevOps consultancy. * We don’t do black boxes:

How This AWS Architecture Keeps Notifying You Until You Fix It - Repeated Alarm

By default, Amazon CloudWatch Alarms send a notification only when the alarm changes state — for example, from OK to ALARM. If the alarm remains in the ALARM state, no additional messages are sent. This can be a problem in production environments or for support teams who rely on timely updates

Cloud

Ship Logs from EKS to Cloudwatch using Fluent-Bit

Introduction When running workloads on Kubernetes, collecting logs from your applications and system components is a basic necessity. In this guide, we’ll show how to use Fluent Bit to gather logs from different sources in a Kubernetes cluster and send them to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Fluent Bit is a

Cloud

Automate GCP Billing Notifications using Airflow

Introduction Staying on top of your cloud spendings saves you from disasters. For startups and fast-moving teams, not knowing what you're spending until it’s too late can blow up budgets and cause panic. We have been situations where we created services and let them running for days

Cloud

A simple framework to help you Rightsize your cloud resources!

Introduction I’ve learnt a few things about autoscaling and rightsizing that tend to work well in most scenarios. No guarantee they’ll fit your use case exactly, but they can serve as helpful references to get started. I’ve been in situations where I downsized resources for a customer

Let Your Kubernetes Workloads Sleep: Using Snorlax to Cut Non-Prod Cluster Costs

Non-production workloads running on Kubernetes need not be up 24/7. In order to cut cost we can easily shut down a lot of them during non-work hours or on weekends. This small change can add to significant cost saving in large environments. Snorlax helps you do exactly that. By

Tools

Why HTTPS Matters and How to Enable It Using Certbot

Introduction Securing your website is no longer optional, it’s a fundamental requirement. If your site is still operating over HTTP, it’s time to make the switch to HTTPS. This not only ensures data transmitted between your users and server is encrypted and secure, but also strengthens user trust,

Cloud

Stop Overpaying for AWS CloudWatch: Metric Optimization Tips

Introduction AWS Cloudwatch is the default monitoring service on AWS. When you’re using AWS, Cloudwatch is part of the package - you’ll automatically get default metrics when you asked for them or not. Things are good as long as you’re using these default metrics, but when you

DevOps

Wait4X: The Elegant Service Readiness Notifier for DevOps

Introduction In modern container-based architectures, one challenge is ensuring that services are ready before their dependencies attempt to use them. Wait4X is a handy CLI tool which solves this problem with a simple notification system. What Makes Wait4X Special? Unlike complex monitoring tools, Wait4X does one thing extremely well -

Building Autonomous AI Teams with CAMEL-AI

Introduction AI has transformed from a buzzword into an essential toolkit. AI capabilities continue to expand at a mind-boggling pace. While AI Agents are great, do you know what's even better? AI Workforces. What if you could simply create multiple agents with different roles and responsibilities? These agents

DevOps

6 Things You’re Probably Doing Wrong in Prometheus Monitoring

Prometheus is an incredibly powerful tool for monitoring your systems. Its flexible data model and expressive query language, PromQL, make it one of the most popular choices in the observability world. But — that flexibility comes at a cost. When you're just starting out with Prometheus, it's

Python

Python’s Biggest Bottleneck Just Got Optional: Meet the GIL-Free Era!

Are you experiencing performance bottlenecks in your Python applications? Have you wondered why your multi-threaded Python code doesn't fully utilize all CPU cores? The answer lies in Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). For years, this mechanism has been a significant limitation for CPU-bound tasks in Python,

Cloud

How to Use ECS Exec to Access Fargate Containers with Terraform

Introduction Is it even possible to exec into a running container in ECS? It definitely is - but it’s not straightforward to setup. ECS Exec lets you connect to your containers on demand using the AWS CLI, giving you a way to inspect, debug, and fix issues inside your

LLM

Test your LLM applications right!

What’s the biggest challenge when building applications, whether they’re web-based, native, LLM-powered, or anything else? Testing! Every time you make a change, you need to ensure the application still functions smoothly and that your new features haven’t broken any part of the flow. To simplify this, we

Kubernetes

Using port-forward too often? KubeVPN Can help!

Introduction If you’ve worked with building or deploying anything on Kubernetes then you must have had the need to connect to a service running on a remote kubernetes cluster from your local system. This is often needed for debugging and testing. kubectl port-forward is the standard method used to

Cloud

Automating Cloudflare DNS Management with Terraform

Why use terraform for managing DNS records? If you're responsible for managing DNS records on Cloudflare across multiple domains, you know how repetetive it can be to keep updating DNS records all the time. You log into the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the DNS settings, and manually change

Tools

Supercharging AI IDEs with Model Context Protocol (MCP)

The past few months have been crazy. We see new AI innovations coming in every day. The amount of transformation is going to change the way we are used to doing things for the better. At KubeNine, we have been constantly adapting to the change - trying to keep up

Cloud

Why Google CloudRun is not an alternative for Amazon ECS!

Introduction ECS is a popular container orchestration service provided by AWS. You can run any application on ECS as long as you can containerise it. HTTP based applications or applications that consume messages from a queue - any use case - it just works, with no drama. When evaluating a

VPC in AWS and GCP: How are they fundamentally different?

Introduction Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) both offer VPCs, but they handle network scope, connectivity, and scaling in different ways. It’s important to know these differences when you’re building apps on these platforms. You might have heard often - “I know AWS - I

Cloud

Build a Simple S3 Storage Browser in React

It’s almost impossible to build a meaningful web application without object storage these days. Often in our apps we require access to files on s3 bucket. Working with AWS S3 often requires building interfaces to provide secure and accessible ways for interacting with stored files. However, creating such interfaces

Python

How We Leveraged Pydantic and Llama index for Data Extraction from unstructured files

Introduction Extracting information from PDF files is a common use case. Often we want to extract structured data from PDF files such as resumes, invoices, or reports. Extracting relevant information while maintaining a consistent structure is crucial for automation and further analysis. By leveraging LLMs and Pydantic, developers can transform

Python

Django Lifecycle Hooks: A better alternative to signals

As developers, we often encounter scenarios where certain actions need to be performed whenever something happens to our models. Whether it’s adding new data, updating existing records, or deleting something from the database. For years, Django signals have been the go-to solution for handling these kinds of requirements. They’

Cloud

All you need to know about Cloudflare tunnel

Introduction Imagine this: You're working on a cool new website or app on your computer, and you can’t wait to show it to a client or get some feedback from a team member. But here's the catch—you don’t want the hassle of setting

Tools

QB9: Your global bookmark on the internet

Ever been stuck searching for the right document or webpage, wasting time and energy clicking through tabs and folders? Picture this: you’re checking into a hotel, and the receptionist asks for your ID. It’s stored in your Google Drive, but after a frustrating few minutes of digging through