Over and over happens to reinvent the wheel and write some specific configuration related to volume management while creating helm charts. This is due to the fact that helm chart template doesn’t create any settings relative to the persistent volumes.

To avoid doing that in the future, I am adding here a small...

IRSA (IAM role for service account) is a very useful tool which permits us to provide AWS permissions to the containers in any pod that uses that service account. This enables us to give a very granular permission setting for specific service accounts and remove most of the headache related to authentication and persisting of secrets.

Below a quick snippet of how to create such mechanism.

Neat example of how we can use terraform http data source to wait for our kubernetes cluster to come up with a healthy state (shamelessly taken from some github repo)