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by joseph 8y ago
That's good to know. The parent linked to an AWS blog post that did work that way. The documentation you linked is a new feature since I last used ECS.
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by joseph 8y ago
The secrets example isn't very comparable. With Kubernetes, the secrets are injected into the container as environment variables or files, whereas the ECS example requires assigning an IAM role to the task and doing a Parameter Store l
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by joseph 8y ago
My project keights[1] can build a cheap two node cluster in AWS, but is not limited to small clusters. Though, it does spin up an ELB unlike this one. 1. https://github.com/cloudboss/keights
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by joseph 8y ago
Although Amazon now offers EKS, I have written a rationale for why this project exists at https://github.com/cloudboss/keights#rationale . The short of it is that it began before EKS was announced, and I have continued
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Show HN: Keights, an AWS Native Kubernetes Installer(github.com)
5 points by joseph 8y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: A Tool for Generating and Testing Concourse Resources(github.com)
3 points by joseph 8y ago|0 comments
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by joseph 8y ago
Amazon has had that for a while too, but I just learned about it recently, see [1]. I wonder if this is doing the same thing under the hood, or if it is a competing project within Amazon. Regardless, something like this is sorely needed for
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by joseph 8y ago
EKS is indeed expensive. I started creating https://github.com/cloudboss/keights for automating Kubernetes stacks before EKS was a thing, but I still prefer it over EKS. You can use it to set up a cluster using plain C
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by joseph 8y ago
This is what I do as well, and the results are amazing. Another benefit is that with the right dough and temperature, the pizza bakes in two minutes or less.
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by joseph 8y ago
I created https://github.com/cloudboss/keights because of the same issue, though it is for AWS only. I've been using it in an air gapped environment and only had to tweak two of the systemd unit dropins in the mas
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by joseph 9y ago
Have you tried Step Functions? I've used them to orchestrate Lambdas with good success when I needed something that will run longer than Lambdas can individually.
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by joseph 9y ago
I use Python daily and have never heard of mkvirtualenv. I started using pyenv a couple years ago and it worked well enough that I stayed with it. It's really a shame that there is no source of truth for packaging in the Python world.
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by joseph 9y ago
If you have to configure a machine, even in code, then you aren't "serverless". To me, serverless means that you do not manage the machines or even have direct access to them.
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by joseph 9y ago
I just moved to Atlanta from Seattle and got a 25% raise in the process. In fact I had two similar offers to choose from.
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by joseph 9y ago
IMO it's better for autoscaling to bake VM images and use cloud-init or similar to add per-instance config tweaks if necessary. Using Ansible to do runtime configuration is slow and doesn't play well with autoscaling. I do like An
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by joseph 10y ago
That's interesting, because their consultants discourage it for their customers. For companies that want to keep most of their traffic internal, I don't think it's a working model. I suppose Amazon's internally used serv
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by joseph 10y ago
Who calls that a best practice? If you're a very small company, that might be fine. With thousands of employees and tens or hundreds of applications, you'll run into serious problems if you want to use e.g. VPC peering for shared
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by joseph 10y ago
Files are good because virtually anything can read and write them, so they are very portable. I used to work with a really great security guy who created a good system for handling secrets. He had us write them to files, but only to a tmpfs
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by joseph 10y ago
Sure, which is why I said to use e.g. credstash in such cases. It stores the secrets in DynamoDB while using KMS to handle the keys. I guess you are talking about using S3 server side encryption, which is another approach.
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by joseph 10y ago
There are lots of ways to handle those scenarios. Deciding where to store your secrets is extra easy if you're in the cloud. In AWS you can use KMS to store it if it's 4kb or less. A cli command or API call can decrypt it for you.
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by joseph 10y ago
Looking forward to trying this out on my Rust learning project[1]. It should be nicer to use serde without the extra code generation step. 1. https://github.com/rjosephwright/saytshen
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by joseph 10y ago
Sure, it would have been easier for me to check the audit log, however the idea that it was an issue with SELinux didn't even cross my mind until I used strace. The vast majority of Linux systems I work on do not have it enabled. You m
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by joseph 10y ago
I just ran into one yesterday. I was pulling my hair out because rsyslog wasn't forwarding messages to logstash. I checked and double checked my configurations, tried different settings, and it all looked correct but it still wouldn&#x
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by joseph 10y ago
> Apply functional programming idioms and use immutable data structures if you can. This is what I've tried to do when learning Rust. However, I find it ends up more boilerplatey than a language like Haskell. I had to do lots of clo
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by joseph 10y ago
I also wonder that. I've read good things about OpenRC, but I always thought of the lack of runlevels as a defining feature of BSD, so color me a little sad to see this go into a BSD operating system.
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by joseph 10y ago
The regular expression syntax; sigils on (some) variables; shortcuts like `bar if foo`; optional parenthesis on function calls; `chomp()` and `chop()`; those are just a few things that come to mind.
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by joseph 10y ago
I have an art degree of sorts. I went to The Evergreen State College[1], which does not have majors and does not offer a BFA, so I my degree is a BA. I took art programs that they offered, mostly doing drawing and sculpture. I also did some
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by joseph 10y ago
AWS did just introduce Lightsail, which is for people who just want a VPS. It's funny because I worked for a VPS hosting company back when EC2 first came out. At the time I thought it was the death knell for that type of web hosting, b
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by joseph 10y ago
I haven't tried it but Google says it is a thing.
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by joseph 10y ago
Yeah, and a nice presentation goes a long way towards removing the context you normally put around a particular food. If something looks appealing, you're more likely to try it, and then you discover flavors you never thought to combin

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