@tallgray
Infrastructure Architect · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform
Open to fractional infrastructure architecture engagements, technical writing collaborations, and speaking at conferences on cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.
3d ago · 7 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. I deployed a permission set for our data engineers five times before it worked correctly. The first deployment: S3 reads worked, Glue Data Catalog reads worked. Athena queries failed — the query engine need...
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3d ago · 5 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. I was preparing to upgrade a production EKS cluster to version 1.32 when I discovered a problem. Four of our core cluster components—VPC CNI, CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and Metrics Server—were all running version...
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4d ago · 7 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. The data platform team had a deadline and a storage decision to make. They'd committed to Apache Iceberg as the table format — open standard, time travel, schema evolution, the usual reasons. What they hadn...
Join discussion4d ago · 10 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. The request came from the security team: they needed network-level access from the nonprod account to the dev account so a vulnerability scanner could reach internal services. Simple enough on the surface. ...
Join discussion4d ago · 3 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. Every time I finished writing a blog post, I had to do this: cd sites/graycloudarch hugo --minify aws s3 sync public/ s3://graycloudarch-website --delete aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id...
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