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The Complete Guide to Persistent Storage on EKS — EBS vs. EFS vs. Secrets Store CSI, All Provisioned with Terraform

Master persistent storage on Amazon EKS by configuring EBS block storage, EFS shared filesystems, and AWS Secrets Store CSI drivers using Terraform.

Jul 27, 2026•Sirish Gurung•5 min read

IaC Kubernetes Terraform EKS AWS Storage

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ALB Ingress vs. NGINX Ingress on EKS — When to Use Which and How to Set Up Both with Terraform

Compare AWS ALB Ingress and NGINX Ingress on Amazon EKS, exploring architectural trade-offs, cost factors, and step-by-step Terraform & Kubernetes deployment patterns.

Sirish Gurung

Jul 23, 2026

5 min read

IaC Kubernetes Terraform EKS AWS Networking

IRSA vs. EKS Pod Identity: A Side-by-Side Terraform Comparison for Granting AWS Permissions to Pods

A side-by-side Terraform comparison of IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) and AWS EKS Pod Identity for securely granting least-privilege AWS permissions to pods.

Sirish Gurung

Jul 18, 2026

8 min read

IaC Kubernetes Terraform EKS AWS Security

Ditch the aws-auth ConfigMap: Managing EKS Access with Terraform Access Entries and Policies

Migrate from the legacy aws-auth ConfigMap to modern AWS EKS Access Entries and API authentication using Terraform to build secure, auditable RBAC access models.

Sirish Gurung

Jul 16, 2026

5 min read

IaC Kubernetes Terraform EKS AWS Security

Building a Production-Ready VPC for Amazon EKS with Terraform — No Modules Required

Architect and provision a production-ready VPC for Amazon EKS from scratch using raw Terraform resources, covering subnet topology, NAT gateways, and Kubernetes tags.

Sirish Gurung

Jul 12, 2026

8 min read

IaC Kubernetes Terraform EKS AWS Networking

Terraform and EKS Basics: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Infrastructure as Code

An absolute beginner's guide to Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Amazon EKS, explaining blueprints, control planes, and how to read .tf and .yaml configs.

Sirish Gurung

Jul 7, 2026

6 min read

IaC Kubernetes Terraform EKS AWS

Right-Sizing Your Pods — A Practical Guide to Kubernetes Resource Requests & Limits

Right-size your Kubernetes workloads with CPU and memory requests & limits to prevent OOMKilled crashes, CPU throttling, and scheduling failures.

Sirish Gurung

Jun 18, 2026

9 min read

Kubernetes Docker DevOps Performance

Teaching an AI to Think: A Beginner's Guide to Reinforcement Learning.

A beginner's guide to Reinforcement Learning, focusing on the Q-Learning algorithm. The post details how to build and update a Q-Table, balancing exploration and exploitation to teach an agent through trial and error.

Sirish Gurung

Oct 7, 2025

5 min read

Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning

Beyond Static Data: An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs).

A hands-on tutorial for building a text-generating AI using a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). The guide covers everything from encoding the text and creating training sequences to building, training, and finally using the model to generate new, original text in a similar style.

Sirish Gurung

Oct 6, 2025

4 min read

Machine Learning Neural Networks RNNs

Supercharge Your Image Classifier: An Intro to Transfer Learning.

A step-by-step tutorial on using transfer learning to build a highly accurate image classifier. It demonstrates how to load a pre-trained model (MobileNet V2), freeze its layers to preserve its learned knowledge, and then add and train a new custom classifier on top.

Sirish Gurung

Oct 5, 2025

3 min read

Machine Learning Computer Vision Neural Networks

Building Your First Image Classifier: A Deep Dive into CNNs.

A practical tutorial on building a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for image classification using the CIFAR-10 dataset. Walk through the entire workflow, from data preparation and model architecture design to training and evaluation.

Sirish Gurung

Oct 4, 2025

4 min read

Machine Learning Neural Networks Computer Vision CNNs

Unlocking Vision: A Beginner's Guide to How Computers 'See'.

A beginner's guide to deep computer vision, explaining how Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) learn to 'see.'

Sirish Gurung

Oct 3, 2025

5 min read

Machine Learning Computer Vision Neural Networks

Your First Deep Dive into Neural Networks: A Beginner's Guide.

Understand the core concepts of Deep Neural Networks.Learn its major components and magic behind how it learns.

Sirish Gurung

Oct 2, 2025

7 min read

Machine Learning Neural Networks

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Blog Posts

The Complete Guide to Persistent Storage on EKS — EBS vs. EFS vs. Secrets Store CSI, All Provisioned with Terraform

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ALB Ingress vs. NGINX Ingress on EKS — When to Use Which and How to Set Up Both with Terraform

IRSA vs. EKS Pod Identity: A Side-by-Side Terraform Comparison for Granting AWS Permissions to Pods

Ditch the aws-auth ConfigMap: Managing EKS Access with Terraform Access Entries and Policies

Building a Production-Ready VPC for Amazon EKS with Terraform — No Modules Required

Terraform and EKS Basics: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Infrastructure as Code

Right-Sizing Your Pods — A Practical Guide to Kubernetes Resource Requests & Limits

Keep Your Pods Alive — Implementing Kubernetes Health Checks That Actually Work

NodePort, LoadBalancer, or Ingress? — Choosing the Right Way to Expose Your Kubernetes App

Why Your Node.js Dockerfile Might Be Bigger Than It Needs To Be — A Multi-Stage Build Guide

From `docker compose up` to `kubectl apply` — A Developer's First Kubernetes Deployment

MCP Servers: How to Give Your AI "Hands" to Interact With Your World.

Chat with Your Documents: How RAG Connects LLMs to Your Private Data.

Teaching an AI to Think: A Beginner's Guide to Reinforcement Learning.

Beyond Static Data: An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs).

Supercharge Your Image Classifier: An Intro to Transfer Learning.

Building Your First Image Classifier: A Deep Dive into CNNs.

Unlocking Vision: A Beginner's Guide to How Computers 'See'.

Your First Deep Dive into Neural Networks: A Beginner's Guide.

From Pixels to Predictions: Building Your First Fashion Classifier with Keras.

And So It Begins: Welcome to My Digital Playground.

Blog Posts

The Complete Guide to Persistent Storage on EKS — EBS vs. EFS vs. Secrets Store CSI, All Provisioned with Terraform

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ALB Ingress vs. NGINX Ingress on EKS — When to Use Which and How to Set Up Both with Terraform

IRSA vs. EKS Pod Identity: A Side-by-Side Terraform Comparison for Granting AWS Permissions to Pods

Ditch the aws-auth ConfigMap: Managing EKS Access with Terraform Access Entries and Policies

Building a Production-Ready VPC for Amazon EKS with Terraform — No Modules Required

Terraform and EKS Basics: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Infrastructure as Code

Right-Sizing Your Pods — A Practical Guide to Kubernetes Resource Requests & Limits

Keep Your Pods Alive — Implementing Kubernetes Health Checks That Actually Work

NodePort, LoadBalancer, or Ingress? — Choosing the Right Way to Expose Your Kubernetes App

Why Your Node.js Dockerfile Might Be Bigger Than It Needs To Be — A Multi-Stage Build Guide

From `docker compose up` to `kubectl apply` — A Developer's First Kubernetes Deployment

MCP Servers: How to Give Your AI "Hands" to Interact With Your World.

Chat with Your Documents: How RAG Connects LLMs to Your Private Data.

Teaching an AI to Think: A Beginner's Guide to Reinforcement Learning.

Beyond Static Data: An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs).

Supercharge Your Image Classifier: An Intro to Transfer Learning.

Building Your First Image Classifier: A Deep Dive into CNNs.

Unlocking Vision: A Beginner's Guide to How Computers 'See'.

Your First Deep Dive into Neural Networks: A Beginner's Guide.

From Pixels to Predictions: Building Your First Fashion Classifier with Keras.

And So It Begins: Welcome to My Digital Playground.

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