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Autoscaling EKS Cluster With Karpenter Using Terraform

6 min read
Abdulmalik
DevSecOps

You are finding ways to autoscale up and down your nodes in the Kubernetes cluster, and figuring out which autoscaler is the best can be hard since there are many options, which one should you go for?

Well, I would advise going for Karpenter instead of the native Cluster Autoscaler, both projects are sponsored by the AWS team though, but Karpenter is fast when it comes to scaling up and scaling down the nodes.

Leveraging git hook for hardcoded secrets scanning in a codebase

6 min read
Abdulmalik
AppSec Engineer

Almost everyone knows how to use .gitignore, the git file that helps in keeping sensitive files like .env out of the tracking, commit, and pushing process, and also unwanted folders like node_modules and all.

But do you know secrets, hardcoded credentials, and API aren't easy to deal with using a .gitignore file? you don't want to keep your config.js or config.go file out of the commit process, these are essential files to your project.