#general (2020-05)
General conversations related to DevOps/Automation
General Discussions
2020-05-01
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Hey everyone, give a warm welcome to our newest members!
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Good to have you here =)
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I actually don’t know where else to ask the question. Does anyone have a preference of a connection pooler for postgres over:
• pgbouncer vs. anything else?
2020-05-02
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Hi Everyone! I would love experts advice on scaling issues I’m having with a Monolith Application
The stack is Ruby, Mysql, Redis, RabbitMQ, and the webserver being used is Passenger, Scaling every other components (mysql, redis, rabbitmq) is not a problem, all of them are scaling awesomely, However, the application server is performing woefully, and the problem is with Passenger, the ruby app is a Legacy codebase in which every component of the application is bundle together in one place, including the mobile app graphql endpoints, and 20+ daemons that needs to run for the app to work.
I have tried scaling horizontally a couple of times which was not effective because I realized that the daemons works in a way that they can’t run concurrently on multiple servers, so that means I had to resolve to scaling vertically, now during peak periods, the server resources are not really used up, but the server keeps crashing, and the major reason is because Passenger(Ruby webserver) couldn’t handle some certain number of connections at once, so after thoroughly going through the passenger doc, I realized that there is a way to increase the maximum number of connection per process, this has been the temporary tweak that is keeping the server up and running for now.
However, We will be starting a campaign Next week, and we are expecting to have x5 the traffic requests we get during peak times, and I need advice on other approaches I can take to Autoscaling my Infrastructure
PS: 1. We are looking to re-architect the entire system by decoupling some services 2. We still run on Ruby 2.2, upgrading it will break our codebase (which is why we need to do 1 above)
I know this community consists of professionals that have handle way larger systems at scale, and I will appreciate everyone’s input on this
Thank you
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Hi @HS a couple thoughts to throw out there that might stir some ideas for you, the goal being to reduce, if possible, direct connections to your lone server ….
• put some cache server in front of it…
• add a CDN and/or WAF service e.g. cloudflare, akamai, others…
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"Reduce the load on your origin infrastructure, especially during peak demand periods. Make your content always accessible using failover and origin health detection."
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@HS Good luck on that, it doesn’t sound easy. If you can’t scale horizontally you can’t scale really. I found it really hard to scale ruby vertically in a way as I was facing massive memory leaks everywhere, especially with big monoliths. Also I think this is not a single mans Devops task, make sure a Sr. developer has hours allocated to help you.
- To repeat myself, scaling vertically is hard but FWIW you can go to the RUBY discord chat https://discord.gg/KbDHDez and I’m sure a few enthusiasts can help you.
- What @Gemini says, caching is important, however, this is not something trivial and not always done in a week ahead especially when you are dealing with users and their sessions.
- Testing is important, if it is possible for you to duplicate the whole production enviornment into a second environment, then you can actually benchmark thoroughly, if this takes you too long, skip it.
- “However, the application server is performing woefully, and the problem is with Passenger, the ruby app is a Legacy codebase in which every component of the application is bundle together in one place, including the mobile app graphql endpoints, and 20+ daemons that needs to run for the app to work.” Here I think is where the opportunities are. If you can split off the ruby application from those daemons you might be able to scale the ruby application horizontally again. Depending what those daemons use for communication this might not work..
- Identify those daemons and configure them to listen on a tcp/udp port reachable from a different server, also firewalling…
- Create 2 or 3 new ruby app servers with none of those 20 daemons running, and configure the ruby apps to connect to the daemons of the earlier configured app server.
- If benchmarking shows one of the daemons is having performance issues, see if the daemon could be isolated to it’s own server or if it can scale to a group of servers.
- If on AWS and if having latency issues, you can use a single placment group for everything.
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Thanks for that @Gemini, I have caching setup on cloudflare and WAF rules on both AWS and Cloudflare and I have to say those are some of the things still keeping us alive for now
and also setting failover is hard to do with Cloudflare compared to AWS Route53 failover feature and since we migrated our DNS entirely (because we thought cloudflare can only work effectively in fighting DDOS for us if we completely handover our dns to clodflare to manage) to Cloudflare, we lost that aws failover feature
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Thanjks @maarten True, I am currently working with a Senoir Engineer with some of these
on 4. those are one of the next steps we want to work on, by separating the daemons to run a service on their own
I want to also try and benchmark our entire app infrastructure, can you recommend any tool I can use for benchmarking?
Thanks, will also checkout the discord channel
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@HS this would also be a great question for #office-hours. Join us on Wednesday 11:30am PST. There’ll be ~20 experienced devops on the call to answer questions.
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Thanks @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
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btw, you can register here for the invite: https://cloudposse.com/office-hours/
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I have ben a member since and I have attended a couple of #office-hours sessions too, I didn’t know why I didnt think about bringing it up in our sessions, but will def. do now
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Hey everyone, give a warm welcome to our newest members!
- @Marc Boudreau
- @Gemini
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Good to have you here =)
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Thank you @Bot
2020-05-03
2020-05-04
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I’m looking to find some library (even shellscript…) to help write wrapper binaries/scripts for download-on-demand-and-re-execute binaries en masse… anyone seem something existing? I’ve written a couple of these things standalone.. shellscripts which curl from a “repo” and re-execs itself… trying to see if there’s anything out there already before I reinvent the wheel a 5th time.
whalebrew - wrapper for executing in docker for reference: https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew tfenv comes to mind as an inspiration as well. although that’s for one single tool and many versions.
Homebrew, but with Docker images. Contribute to whalebrew/whalebrew development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@mfridh — From your description, I’m not sure this fits, but because your mention of tfenv I figure this is worth mentioning: https://asdf-vm.com/#/
An extendable version manager
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also check out #variant
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Turn your bash scripts into a modern, single-executable CLI app today - mumoshu/variant2
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Though after re-reading your post
trying to see if there’s anything out there already before I reinvent the wheel a 5th time.
Variant wouldn’t give you this out of the box, but let you declaratively describe how you want to do it.
Variant works with mod
to abstractly define dependencies. It can then automatically update those. It’s also designed to work in a gitops-fashion where it can PR the changes.
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Missing package manager for any task runners and build tools e.g. make and variant - variantdev/mod
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Thanks! Will check these out!
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Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go. Contribute to bitfield/script development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) mod - thanks! Remember seeing this way back and thinking I had a good use for it…
@joshmyers script looks interesting!! Could be a gateway drug to more Go :).
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I think I now know better how to express what I was after.
tfenv has a terraform shim, a script which when run, detects which version of terraform you want, and downloads that automatically and then just runs. No need to apt install / scoop install / brew install ..
So what I’m looking for is whether there are decent helpers out there already to allow you to “mass-shim” your environment to make the tools download on-demand only instead of baking everything inside a 2GiB tools image .
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Am already doing it with a couple of curl-based shell script shims. But they’re one-offs so far.
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Build it into a Make
dependency?
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That + some shellscript could probably be a good framework actually, yes.
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Variant is a good use-case too. Likely just more work, but could have a more structured and streamlined approach for the end user.
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yes, the good thing about variant is that instead of having a whole bunch of loose tools available which you forget which was for what, having one single entrypoint, with possible informational output could help.
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like say you provide a “tools-cli” docker container for example…
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Yeah. I like the Variant approach. I’ve been wanting to use that tool since I learned about it.. I may try that out on my next client project to try to simplify client DevOPs on-boarding.
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Though ya, you could also build a “tools” docker image and then use whalebrew like you mentioned. That approach with mod
would be pretty cool too.
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asdf with direnv
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there are those very basic requirements but if you are doing this from a local workstation then you are going to be using some base tooling anyway
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I need to figure out how to get variant to work properly for external dependencies, simply haven’t given it enough attention yet (but i bet it works well though)
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otherwise, I wrote a wrapper script for cloudposse’s package that I then pull in via makefiles to handle all that
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And if you go the tools image approach, have a look at https://github.com/EnvCLI/EnvCLI
Don't install Node, Go, … locally - use containers you define within your project. If you have a new machine / other contributors you just have to install docker and envcli to get started. - …
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this let’s you interact with the tools image as though all the commands were native (but they actually run in docker)
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@Igor Rodionov is digging it
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@roth.andy have you seen envcli
?
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No. Sounds cool though
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seems cool but what’s with dropping the releases on freaking bintray?
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Cool. EnvCLI seems like an even more specifically useful whalebrew
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Hey everyone, give a warm welcome to our newest members!
- @Lucas Badico
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Good to have you here =)
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2020-05-05
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Hey everyone, give a warm welcome to our newest members!
- @Chintan Parmar
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- @Steffan
Good to have you here =)
2020-05-06
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Hey everyone, give a warm welcome to our newest members!
- @Hutr
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- @chris
- @kiran
Good to have you here =)
2020-05-07
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Hey everyone, give a warm welcome to our newest members!
- @Libert
- @Mashail Almuzaini
- @Haroon Rasheed
- @conzymaher
- @Shekhar
- @Andy
Good to have you here =)
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anyone happen to know offhand if there is a syntax for a gomplate file (like json or yaml) datasource to check for the existence of a key before attempting to use it?
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yup!
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gomplate documentation
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coll.Has
or just has
will help with that
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Man, the author himself! I’m humbled good sir. Thanks for your help. I half expected no answers
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I have a keyword set for gomplate
in Slack, and I happened to notice
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my lucky day indeed then. It does not need to be said I think but I’m a huge fan of your work
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well thanks!
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I appreciate the encouragement! it’s hard to stay motivated, but comments like that keep me going!
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I’ll thank you by continuing to spread the word of your work like a good aspiring go disciple :D
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@btai is another new fan we just turned on to gomplate
!
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Erik speaks the truth!
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woohoo!
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there’s a totally unfounded rumour that a new gomplate release is coming out soon… but I have no idea where I heard that
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I’ll just use your own personal emoji for that rumor
2020-05-08
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Please can anyone recommend a good data masking tool to obfuscate production database in a non production environment?
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I dont know of an off the shelf tool to this because its not an easy problem. e.g will your application still work if you just randomly obfuscate every field? What I have done in the past on a ruby/rails project is use https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker
A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers. - faker-ruby/faker
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Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you. - joke2k/faker
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And then you can have ActiveRecord models that obfuscate fields with sensitive data
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Thanks a lot @conzymaher This really helps, I just did a poc with it snd it worked as I wanted
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e.g name, dob, and other sensitive details
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You can generate sensible fake names, addresses, social security numbers etc
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for most applications the obfuscated data needs to be plausible. e.g you cant just have a paragraph of lorem ipsum for date of birth or name
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So context and generating the correct kind of obfuscated data matters
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TLDR I dont think you will find an off the shelf tool that handles this. Build some custom-ish tooling to do this and run it in some automated process nightly / hourly etc
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2020-05-11
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anyone here worked with celery ? currently on celery 2.x and looking to upgrade to the latest one but looking at the following strategies
• celery 2.x to celery 3.x to celery 4.x - ideal but seems like there are issues
• celery 4.x in tandum with celery 2.x and migration piece by piece - safer
• replacement for celery and migration piece by piece - possibly safer and better if the celery alternative has additional benefits All celery jobs are in python… most are running like a daily cron. Questions for you folks…
• have you done this ?
• any of the above strategies seem better ?
• any alternatives to celery you might recommend ?
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we are on celery 4. have been on it for some time. We had to migrate a while back. Can’t remember from what version but it addressed some issues we were all of sudden seeing. We migrated all at once and just did a lot of testing. We have been using SQS and we like it. May eventually moving everything to SQS.
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that sounds awesome. what was your upgrade strategy? how many tasks did you have? we have around 500 so we need to be as careful as possible
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We have around 20 recurring tasks but all super critical. We took a very iterative approach and ran it in many different test env with prod db clones. Deciding when to do this is also critical for us since we didn’t want to disrupt any tasks half way. You are at a scale much larger than ours so I am not sure if our experience is any helpful to you. Another QC strategy we took, which was manual but helpful, was to trigger these events directly, rather than waiting for it to happen at the scheduled time.
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we did celery 3 to celery 4 a while back. basically it boiled down to changes in the django settings (in celery4 everything is prefixed with CELERY_ and there are some name chanages) and adding namespace kwarg to celery.config_from_object
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Not used Celery in a long time. What do the docs say about upgrade path?
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there isn’t one
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im considering dramatiq because thats the only thing that has an upgrade path (kind of)
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Hi guys, I’m working with a small tech startup (less than 10 employees) and we’re trying to come up with a good IT policy for employee laptops. With the vast amount of experience in this Slack channel, I’m wondering what you guys think the pros/cons are for a BYOD policy, versus the company-paid-for laptop that the company owns, locks down and manages (this is what most IT departments I’ve been with in the past do, and still do).
What do other cutting-edge tech startups do to manage their IT equipment now? What is your experience with BYOD? Does it work well? How is it implemented? or is the “tried-and-true” company-owned laptops still the best policy? … or, are there any other options?
All opinions and/or examples greatly welcome…
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Do you have any regulatory requirements you have to be compliant with? Stuff such as HIPAA or DFARS?
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not sure about those, but probably want to be PCI and GDPR
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I should add, all our “data” is cloud-based (AWS/Gsuite), so the idea is lock those down and not worry about the client machines
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If using mac Jamf is a great solution
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Just to implement some sane defaults. Encryption enforced with an Institutional Recovery Key. Screen lock after 5 mins etc
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That simple thing will at least save you from the “Laptop left on the bus” scenario
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At the same time would I like the company to have these controls on a BYO device? No.. If the company is serious about security and implementing some controls there is no choice but to supply the equipment IMO
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Using a personal machine for business has many risks. What if you accidentally use the wrong AWS credentials? What if an employee installs a package for a personal project that exfiltrates their keys etc etc. Using a personal machine for business is crossing the streams and adds a huge amount of attack surface area
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Yeah I’ve considered that. The strategy currently is to NOT hand out any access keys, and only use SAML credentials (w/2factor) to gain temporary access via KMS… Again, the idea we have is to provide enough security into AWS that it shouldn’t matter what device you’re using.. but we still wonder if giving up that control is worth it or not..
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As a small company, we’d rather not have to worry about managing the equipment for employees, but we realize it might be a necessary evil…
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I’m hoping to get some examples of where BYOD works well for companies and how
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have a look at the principles of Beyond Corp
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BeyondCorp is an enterprise security model that allows employees to work more securely from any location without the need for a traditional VPN. Learn more.
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like don’t try and go all in on it straight away - but if you make access control decisions with some of these principles in mind then you should end up in a pretty good place
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the key thing i would say is don’t try to boil the ocean at the start - but make any new decisions the right way
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Awesome information Chris! Thanks. I guess I’m looking to answer some issues like how to start or enforce a BYOD policy? Do companies have problems asking employees to use their own devices? Or do they end up just purchasing a laptop for the employee at hire like a hiring bonus to make sure they have a “good enough” workstation? And at that point, is it just better to say it is the company’s laptop in case they end up leaving a few days later etc?
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it really depends - i’ve seen companies do both - generally i’d prefer to be asked as an employee how they’d like to work
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i have a work laptop that was provided by work - but working from home i’d much rather use my own system as it’s much more powerful than i’d expect work to provide
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Thats the same as me at my previous job… I worked at my desk pc at home
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I’m trying to factor in the lowest denominator.. those who don’t have any laptop or pc at home at hire.. we don’t want to create an HR nightmare
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So what would a company do for them versus someone who says they’ll be happy to use their own? And how to make it “fair”?
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don’t worry about “fair” just focus on “comfortable for everyone”
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what one person values may not be the same as another
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and if you give them both the compromise no one is happy
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i’d generally figure out a spec that you find works and offer it to people if they want it - otherwise allow byod if you want to do that
the other option is to set a budget and allow people to decide what they want - this doesn’t scale in the late game though
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it can be a good perk for early talent though
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Yeah it seems different for a 10 person company from a 100 person company
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it’s very different and it’ll surprise you the things that become important as scale increases
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Maybe thats the key…
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my main advice would to be to just focus on the goals at each stage rather than the strategies because you’ll need to keep re-making decisions for different scales
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as you scale the cost/benefit equation changes
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like centralised management of devices is definitely overkill for 10 users - but for 1000 maybe that becomes worth while
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the trick is to figure out when to change things
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100? 500? 1000? who knows
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Yeah, but our thought is the early decisions really affects culture later, which is why we’re sweating it now, but I see your point
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culture is cultivated and it will change as well
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it’s not a thing that you set in place and it stays that way
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it’s kind of like a stew that you keep adding things to
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don’t sweat it now - just keep an eye on it as you cook it
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Yeah I can see that. I appreciate the perspective Chris. Thanks. I’ll read up on your links.
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figure out and make sure you can articulate your values early though - that’ll drive the culture. what’s really important to your founding group as people - as that will drive your culture more than any organised effort
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no worries - i really love this stuff and happy to share
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Yeah I love it too. Being in a startup has the advantage of being able to do things the way you want, but we don’t want to reinvent the wheel on what works. We’ve got most things figured out for now, but this has been going back and forth for a while, so its good to get some additional perspective.
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Hi guys I have an issue with helm templates, wondering if someone can help. I am trying to pass private in values.yaml i.e.
ssh_key: |
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
....
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
And then I am using it in my template like
templates:
- |
apiVersion: v1
type: Opaque
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: bitbucket
stringData:
username: git
privateKey: {{ .Values.ssh_key | indent 4 }}
But it keeps replacing newlines with spaces. Has anybody come across this issue?
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There seems to be something wrong with stringData
encryption. I will just stick with data
for the time being.
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Thanks I wasnt able to join yesterday as I had a problem with Zoom but i watched a recorded session. It is nice to be here :)
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Awesome! Glad you were able to catch up on the recorded session.
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2020-05-15
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joined another very active slack recently, didn’t realize just how much i appreciate the way this one uses threads appropriately
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ya, we’re been pretty good about that. also, a convention @sheldonh started that I like is prefixing questions with [thread]
as a hint to others to start a thread.
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even more, i just appreciate that it seems to be part of the culture here. folks see messages with threads in pretty much every channel when they join, and they see others using threads to respond to new posts, and generally they seem to follow suit quickly. it’s glorious, even without a convention
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Agreed — I seriously appreciate threads and other slacks bog down my time when they don’t use them. I’m definitely going to steal @sheldonh’s [thread]
idea going forward to push folks in the right direction. Thanks for mentioning @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)!
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I was in another community and got called out for using threads. Turns out they have major accessibility issues for screen readers. First time I’d ever heard of that. Pretty crazy that it hasn’t been dealt with. Unless somebody specifically mentions they’re having trouble reading it I’m not sure it makes sense to stop using them because context is lost for everybody else anyway. Just thought I’d mention that was the first time I’d heard anything negative about threads.
I have a PowerShell extension on a slack bot. It tracks channel postings and if unthreaded messages are posted more than say a couple times in 15 minutes it politely suggests using threads to help keep the noise down. I’m a big believer in keeping context
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Protip. When you post thread in the title I try to only post the main topic and maybe a mention, and then immediately post the main bulk of content in the thread. I found that that helps ensure the conversation immediately begins in the thread as somebody clicks to expand it. Just a little thing that seemed to help
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Good tips @sheldonh — Thanks! Will mention introducing the slack bot idea to one of my clients for sure — they could use it!
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Clever hack!
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Anyone really good at MongoDB here?
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Hi
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- Hello I am Ken! Our next online
- @WebHackMeetup
- is about building your own #Golang linter. And it is our first event on
- @airmeet_com
- https://webhack.connpass.com/event/175795/
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New to golang. Is this advanced or would it be useful to someone beginning too?
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It is a good beginning to work with Golang’s advanced features, for developing programming language tools.
2020-05-20
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Hello - Where can I get help for cloudposse terraform modules? I am facing some errors and need some help.
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I would say that #terraform would be a good place to start. Just expose your issue with what your trying to accomplish, what is happening that is unexpected, what you tried so far to fix it, and any specific errors messages your getting. and then be patient.
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I did that already .. but haven’t had any reply
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What do you think about “Managing stateful systems via container orchestration” blipping as Assess on the latest Technology Radar?
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/managing-stateful-systems-via-container-orchestration
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This Technology Radar quadrant explores the techniques being used to develop and deliver software
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haha, sounds like another topic for #office-hours ?
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requesting more slack emojis
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sure thing! just link me to ‘em and I’ll add
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@Jeremy G (Cloud Posse)
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@gyoza Not sure what you mean by “remove” gravatar images. Do you mean to set disable_gravatar = true
in .ini
?
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probably
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anyone ever use celery with sqs ? for some reason my tasks are sent to sqs but not taken from sqs
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Fixed it. I was running flask with celery and had a route to add tasks using flask but didnt run the celery worker so it wasnt taking the tasks. Doh
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Hi, does anyone have experience with setting up fail2ban across multiple nginx boxes with a shared database for banned IPs?
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Have a look at ossec-hids as an alternative. It implements a controller/agent model.
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Last week I have create a new Terraform module to host GitHub self hosted action runners on AWS spot instances. For those who are interested the setup is explained in this post https://040code.github.io/2020/05/25/scaling-selfhosted-action-runners
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This post explains how to run GitHub actions on self-hosted scalable runners on AWS spot instances. Introduction Last year GitHub released…
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That’s great! I’ll share this in #office-hours announcement
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Cool, thx Erik
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Guys? Is there any tool similar to https://github.com/korfuri/awesome-monorepo#build-systems--dependency-management-tools ? I have monorepo with separate Terragrunt projects, problem is that I need to:
- be able to select project to run in pipeline ( not so hard, I can pass $path variable to that project in gitlab )
- be able to determine which project was changed/impacted in PR ( this is hard, it can be probably done with git diff and bash scripting ) But something that can manage projects in my monorepo and also determine blast radius would be really nice ! Thanks
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Unfortunatelly Terragrunt can not manage 1. nor 2. , good example of using projects in monorepo is atlantis
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Is there a way in helmfile where i can stop it to upgrade job and stateful sets.Actually currently what is happening is that i have labels in helm charts but when i use helmfile to upgrade the deployed helm charts it is failing because job and statefull sets cannot be updated(i.e. cannot add labels in my case).
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