Introduction: The Power Duo – LLMs and RAG Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Llama 2, or Mistral have demonstrated incredible capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text. They are trained on vast amounts of data, enabling them to perform…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications. AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers, eliminates the need to manage underlying infrastructure. ECS Exec enables secure command…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a powerful platform for deploying and managing containerized applications through Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate. This article explores how to leverage AWS Fargate with ECS to run containers without managing underlying infrastructure,…
Over the last year or so I had been looking at migrating our current single-node Gitlab server to a more de-coupled/distributed architecture. The primary purpose was to ensure that a single component would not bring down the entire platform. By…
While writing scripts in Bash, adding some nice, reusable functions for logging. #!/bin/bash # Colors for output GREEN=’\033[0;32m’ BLUE=’\033[0;34m’ RED=’\033[0;31m’ YELLOW=’\033[1;33m’ NC=’\033[0m’ # Error handling handle_error() { echo -e “${RED}Error: $1${NC}” >&2 cleanup exit 1 } # Logging function log()…
Gitlab is a great CI/CD tool along with all the benefits of being a SCM tool as well. Having said that, if you are self hosting Gitlab, and want to control the amount of storage, then a little bit of…
Using Docker Compose to run a Docker container with environment variables from an AWS ECR image involves creating a docker-compose.yml file and defining the necessary configurations. Here’s how you can do it: Replace placeholders like <account-id>, <region>, <repository-name>, <tag>, VAR_NAME1,…
Using AWS credentials from your local machine in a Docker build process requires careful handling to ensure security. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to do it: This approach avoids embedding the credentials in the image, but it makes them…
Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure. One of the core concepts of Terraform is the “state file,” which keeps track of the resources that Terraform manages. The Terraform state file is a JSON file that stores…
Overview In GitLab, templates can be used in pipelines to simplify the process of creating a pipeline. Templates are essentially predefined scripts that can be reused across multiple pipelines, making it easier to maintain and manage pipelines across an organization.…