Automation - Tag - Lorenzo's Bloghttps://www.k8s.it/tags/automation/Automation - Tag - Lorenzo's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Monitoring Contentful Usage — Building a Prometheus Exporter Because the UI Won't Tell Youhttps://www.k8s.it/posts/monitoring-contentful-usage-with-a-prometheus-exporter/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Lorenzo Girardihttps://www.k8s.it/posts/monitoring-contentful-usage-with-a-prometheus-exporter/

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Problem
  • The Architecture
  • How It Works
  • CLI Mode — One-Shot Reports
  • Prometheus Mode — Continuous Monitoring
  • Deploying on Kubernetes with Helm
  • Grafana Dashboards
  • Security Considerations
  • Conclusion
  • Reflections

Here we are. If you’ve ever managed a Contentful space at scale — I mean real scale, with thousands of entries, a dozen environments, and a team that publishes hourly — you’ve hit the wall. The Contentful web app shows you… not much. A few dashboard widgets, some high-level numbers, but nothing you can export, alert on, or trend over time.

]]>Terraform Your Free Cloudflare Accounthttps://www.k8s.it/posts/terraform-your-free-cloudflare-account/Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000Lorenzo Girardihttps://www.k8s.it/posts/terraform-your-free-cloudflare-account/

Introduction

Cloudflare provides a solid free tier. What sets it apart from competitors like Akamai or Incapsula isn’t just the price — it’s the API support and native Terraform provider. Everything you can click in the dashboard, you can manage in code.

This article walks through automating a complete Cloudflare account: DNS records, page rules, security settings, and zone configuration — all in Terraform, all in Git.

Setup

1. Authentication

Grab your API key from the Cloudflare portal:

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