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Flox + Novops: development packages, secrets and multi-environment management all-in-one !

2025-01-102025-01-10

Setting up development environment often turns into a developer horror story. Bring secrets, environment variables, authentication and consistency between each developer’s machines and CI pipelines and it becomes a nightmare. Thankfully, modern tools like Novops and Flox can help streamline most of this boilerplate. Flox: reproducible and shareable development environment Flox automates creation of development…

Flox: better alternative to Dev Containers

2024-10-252024-10-25

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On paper, Dev Containers are great to define and share development environments easily. Actually using them is not that great: lack of reproducibility, integrating host files in containers, difference in implementations between various tools… While Dev Containers do provide value for dev environment automation, on usage I thought "There’s probably a better way to automate…

A Rust cross compilation journey

2024-02-292024-03-01

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I recently had to configure cross-compilation for one of my Rust project, and, oh boy… What a journey ⛵ Manual test on target platform I wanted to be able to compile on Linux / MacOS / Windows and _x8664 / aarch64. Before adding the layer of complexity required by cross-compilation, I wanted to test on…

The day I broke my Nix store (and my NixOS)

2024-02-162024-02-29

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Nix and NixOS are reputed for their reproducibility. I’ve been using it for a few years with great satisfaction, never believing that somehow the Nix store (holding Nix packages and binaries) could somehow be corrupted into not following this sacro-saint reproducibility. Updating NixOS, what could go wrong? NixOS system update or upgrade is as simple…

Destroy every resources from your AWS accounts with aws-nuke

2022-06-252022-06-25

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Destroy every resources from your AWS accounts with aws-nuke You probably heard – or lived yourself – the story of this surprisingly high AWS bill because you forgot to turn off your development environment. Here comes aws-nuke ! It’s not only useful for dev/sandox resources, but can also help reduce your AWS costs and test…

Traefik High Availability on Kubernetes with Let’s Encrypt, Cert Manager and AWS Route53

2021-11-262022-04-01

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When deploying Traefik with Let’s Encrypt on Kubernetes, need quickly arise for High Availability (HA). It requires multiple instances of Traefik to run in parallel, but prevents the use of Traefik’s built-in Let’s Encrypt features: it is not possible to run multiple instances of Traefik 2.0 with Let’s Encrypt enabled, because there is no way…

GitOps implementation using GitLabCI and AWS

2021-08-032022-04-02

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GitOps is nice and all, but how to implement GitOps may not be so easy. In this article we’ll see an example implementation using GitLabCI and AWS. We’ll talk a lot about GitOps, GitLabCI and AWS. If you haven’t already heard about GitOps, here are some nice articles from Weaveworks and GitLab. Minimal example Let’s…

Minimalist static website with AWS S3, Cloud Formation & Route 53

2021-06-282022-04-02

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We’ll use a minimalist method to deploy a static website using a custom domain name with AWS S3, Route 53 and CloudFormation. Our stack will contain: An S3 bucket holding our website content with a public access policy The bucket will act as storage for our website data (HTML, CSS, etc.), we’ll just need to…

GitlabCI: expose Docker socket for faster builds

2021-06-062022-04-02

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When building Docker images with GitlabCI, a very common issue is setting-up efficient Docker caching strategy for image build. That’s when hell starts and your CI jobs gets either longer, complex or both. Introduction We’ll talk a lot about Docker and Gitlab CI If you are not familiar with GitlabCI Runner, I advise you to…