#announcements (2019-03)

I’ve taken a look at gomplate and it looks like a very useful tool, but I couldn’t see a practical use for it based on the examples given in README. Please could someone describe how they use it, as templating is a powerful tool that I very much adopt when I can use it!

They way I understand it should be like consul-template but with more backend options.consul-template is only for consul and uses go templates but gomplate has aws vault etc..

I might be wrong though

but I guess this is only 1 use case

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So I’ve been looking at deploying cloudposse/bastion in a cluster lately - I’ve been having some challenges - is there a channel for discussing that, or is here a good place?

Hey @hairyhenderson we don’t have a dedicated channel for that yet. But I will create one.

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hi everyone, i had a question which some of you may have been through and could help. So i provisioned a root, staging account using the root.cloudposse.co, and staging.cloudposse.co repos. I noticed that the versions on geodesic/terraform-root-modules in the Dockerfile were somewhat old. I noticed this after provisioning. Is it safe to upgrade geodesic/terraform-root-modules docker tags to reflect newer versions?

It should be safe, but we don’t have regression testing

Updating geodesic is safe

Updating the root modules might lead to changes

We always recommend to use your own root modules

They are designed to be an example of a service catalog that we use, but we recommend you maintain your own and do not use ours directly

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I’m looking for some advice…

I’m at a point where I’m ready to take both the RHCSA and the CKA but I can’t seem to choose which one to take first.

I feel confident that I could pass either one, but I’ve been playing with Kubernetes a lot more recently and it’s fresh in my mind. Does anyone think a CKA look good on a resume by itself in terms of certs for a Jr. Level engineer?

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Hi Guys, I came across the Cloud Posse github and found some nice terraform modules so interested in seeing how active the community here on Slack is. I’m a dad to two small kinds, rock climber and working with Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Terraform and DevOPS..

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So I gave a presentation for work on account heirarchy’s and forward vision for our cloud strategy about a month ago, and then a week or two ago found all this cloudposse sweetops that almost directly mirror what I want to do. Finally getting a chance to dig in and see if it will save me a bunch of time, but I’m a bit confused on how to get started with the root account. The docs aren’t very clear on what order to do things in… it seems I set up a terraform state, then modify the Dockerfile, then work from inside there to do the things I need to do, but none of the make scripts seem to work correctly for setting up the tfstate backend. Have I just missed some docs somewhere?

Hey Alex! Docs are a bit out of date. We have our reference architecture, which will help - but is a bit rough around the edges. Let’s discuss in #geodesic

(Also, I’m happy to contribute back to make the docs better, if that’s a thing that’s doable)

@oscarsullivan_old has most recently gone through the process and written up some great docs

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Hello are various cloudposse terrafrom modules going to be available for 0.12 anytime soon?

we intend to support it, but don’t have any time line that we can provide.

The problem is until it’s GA, most people won’t upgrade

and if we maintain 2x versions of our modules, we double our maintenance effort

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I have clone the repo https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-elasticache-redis but my fqdn is not coming under o/p Outputs:

O/P: From Terraform module.dns.aws_route53_record.default: Creating… allow_overwrite: “” => “<computed>” fqdn: “” => “<computed>” name: “” => “redis” records.#: “” => “1” records.1423481967: “” => “master.global-default-redis.jmesag.use1.cache.amazonaws.com” ttl: “” => “60” type: “” => “CNAME” zone_id: “” => “Z1YY487HJOZ25T”

host = redis.dexilab.acrobat.com >>This cname entry should be in Route53 under zone id id = global-default-redis port = 6379 security_group_id = sg-05453335a55c3080e

@Arvind make sure you specified a correct zone ID here https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-elasticache-redis/blob/master/variables.tf#L129

if it’s empty, no records will be created in route53

the zone should already exist in route53, its ID should look like this Zxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

also, let’s use #terraform

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Hi there. I’ve been looking at the SweetOps knowledge base and the toolkit for a week but still can not wrap my head around it (probably the best way would be to try it, but - you know - @reasons…) The most important thing which is still unclear: how much manual script execution would be needed in day-to-day activities after the initial multi-account setup?

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@Evgeny Pestov sorry for the frustration (truly). You’re not the first one. Our challenge is to document how to use the hundreds of pieces of open source software that we rely on and have glued together. It’s all free as in beer; we give our stuff away for free :-) The information architecture necessary to help someone get started is difficult and our documentation is behind our actual product feature-set. We are working on improving the documentation but it is a labor of love. Keep In mind, depending on what you are trying to solve, your requirements will be different and your cold start process unique. There is no one way to tie the pieces together. For example there are at least 10 ways I can think of to setup auto scaling in Kubernetes. A dozen or more types of AWS account configurations. Please have a look in #geodesic where many others are finding their way through the process. I am also available to jump on a call to show you what it all looks like. https://calendly.com/cloudposse

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@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) how can we contribute to the tf project? For example In my case, as you may infer, i’m spanish language native.

@AgustínGonzalezNicolini if you want to contribute to an existing repo, you can do this: 1) fork the repo 2) add your changes 3) open a PR against the original repo 4) somebody reviews the changes and approves them 5) merge the PR into the original repo

Sure, i have an update to add on-demand support for dynamodb

Sweet!

Also, ping @Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse) or myself once you submit the PR so we can accelerate the review

sure! I’m in the very end of a sprint, once concluded i’ll have time to push changes

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Here is my first question – If most of my Terraform code reside on AWS CodeCommit, can I run Terraform via CodePipeLine ? I have this client who is running Terraform successfully via Jenkins, but they are running into all sorts of security issues with Jenkins because they have multiple Accts, so I suggested to them to use CodePipeLine instead since they are already using CodeCommit. I’d like to know if this is doable & if there is some info online or on GitHub out there how can set this up. Much appreciated !

hi @Faris thanks and welcome to the community

nice website you have 247mission.com, wish you the best

so re: can I run Terraform via CodePipeLine ?

people running TF on CodePipeline using CodeBuild’s buildspec.yml

https://ruempler.eu/2017/02/26/continuous-infrastructure-delivery-pipeline-aws-codepipeline-codebuild-terraform/

https://stephenmann.io/post/continuous-delivery-with-beanstalk-codepipeline-and-terraform/

Thanks so much @Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)!

in buildspec.yml you can actually do/run anything

here is an example of building a Docker image and pushing it to ECR https://github.com/cloudposse/jenkins/blob/master/buildspec.yml

CodeBuild can’t run each step in a container, so using shell commands in buildspec.yml looks like the only option

#codefresh runs each pipeline step in a container, so there are much more options to run terraform

Totally agree, automation is the way to go.. I am a big fan when it come to automation. in fact, putting more emphasis on automation is what got my company off the ground. Lots of company are learning the hard way and now they are considering IAC. I’ve been so busy and for this reason I am looking for help since I am only one man company..

This is a good start.. Thanks again @Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse) for the info, I will check it out..

@Faris we use codecommit quite a bit. Tried codepipeline but found some of its assumptions and configuration too restrictive. So we’re using codebuild. Wrote a tf module to link everything together… https://github.com/plus3it/terraform-aws-codecommit-flow-ci

Figured someone could always trigger a pipeline from codebuild, if they wanted

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I am doing a project where I need to create Terraform scripts for implementing the Infrastructure as code. ( IAAS) . This script should work on Jenkins and implement the infrastructure on the Azure. Can you please guide on this . If tou have sample Jenkins file, Please share it .

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