Infrastructure

Caution: As of March 2026, ingress-nginx will no longer receive new releases, bugfixes, or updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered. So you have a Kubernetes cluster and are using (or considering using) the NGINX ingress controller to forward outside traffic to in-cluster services. That’s awesome! The first time I looked at it, everything looked so easy; installing the NGINX ingress controller was one helm install away, so I did it. Then, after hooking up the DNS to the load balancer and creating a few Ingress resources, I was in business. ...

For the past year, Descomplica moved towards a more service-oriented architecture for its core components (auth, search, etc) and we’ve been using Elastic Beanstalk from the start to orchestrate the deployment of those services to AWS. It was a good decision at the time. In general, Elastic Beanstalk works fine and has a very gentle learning curve; it didn’t take long for all teams to start using it for their projects. Fast-forward a few months, everything was nice and good. Our old problems were solved, but - as you might have guessed - we had new ones to worry about. ...