#general (2021-03)

Posted in general because couldn’t find any other channel this fit into ¯_(ツ)_/¯

@Mohammed Yahya interested in your passing on m1 at this time. I can guess why but would like to hear from you

first mac over windows, second I have i9 mbp 16 inch, it’s stable over the m1, m1 still in early age, lot of small issues as I saw in reviews, not sure about brew

I will upgrade to the m1, but not this year for sure

IMO the non-m1 macbook is the only one of the 3 options that doesn’t include “yeah it will work but here are the hoops you have to jump through first”

Good to know. I figured most of the links had been worked out but glad to know I’m not missing anything much right now. For non-dev work I think for air it’s a shoe-in with power efficiency and performance. Development is a different beast.

Another option, though in the same category of “hoops to jump through first” is to have the physical laptop be not much more than a thin client. I know Kelsey Hightower does ~a lot~ome of his development on a Chromebook that is connected for remote development to a linux server in GCP. I’ll see if I can find some of his tweets talking about it

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/601146284490289156?s=20

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1294682104270184454?s=20

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1320772022025121793?s=20

Yeah, I get that for personal use, but a company provided laptop I’d prefer something that works well remote and local with all options available. Good idea though otherwise!

I would highly reccomend against w3schools or any generic site. I’ve worked with many databases over the years, mostly MySQL and Maria, but also DB2, Oracle, and Sybase. They should know how ANSI-99 works (not like a text book, but base skills), but then each database possesses certain ways to approach problems that other platforms fail at. Then you’re giving that person the responsibility of managing a cloud based database. If you don’t have a Postgres person in house, i would think more about this decision. With mysql and mariadb, there is a great knowledge base from Percona, hopefully the same exists for PGSQL. They way i write queries and test for optimization bottle necks, differs heavily by database. Good Luck.

e.g. use S3 using AWS CLI?

I would put the static files in s3 and then use event notifications on the bucket to trigger a rundeck job to sync the files from the bucket to all servers. Theoretically this could also be done with a lambda function, but if you’ve got something like rundeck already it might be easier to go that route.

What is the static content? AWS has a datasync tool now that might help with onprem + aws focused, but it’s just one option. Is it possible to store it in s3 and distribute to ec2 instance as target also instead of it being the distributor? Then you could use any switches to also reduce threading possibly on that instance alone. Just a few quick thoughts

I don’t think you explicitly create tfstate files? I think they get created when you run terraform apply

I’m running this geodesic https://github.com/cloudposse/root.cloudposse.co/tree/master/conf

I’m following the README file instructions but i’m stuck this part

disclaimer, I’m just a random dude and not super familiar with CloudPosse’s projects yet.

What problem are you running in to? Note, that repo seems archived so I wouldn’t personally use it.

funny I was trying to create the remotestate s3 backend too. I was trying to use https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-tfstate-backend but ran into https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-tfstate-backend/issues/88

The README link seems broken

NOTE: Before provisioning AWS resources with Terraform, you need to create tfstate-backend first (S3 bucket to store Terraform state and DynamoDB table for state locking). Follow the steps in this README. You need to do it only once.

right. It should probably lead the to the repo I’ve linked.

I dont know ho to config tfstate-backend

but it’s also an archived repo so we can’t pull request the readme.

https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-tfstate-backend <— try to use this

what repo do you recommend me to check to get started?

with terraform in general or specifically remote state backends?

I mean with cloudposse

I need to create a beanstalk app from cloudposse?

again I’m just a random dude.

You might try #office-hours during the week?

https://cloudposse.com/office-hours/

I am new to cloudposse as well so I’m sorry I can’t help much

Ok no problem I appreciate your help

do let me know if you have any luck with https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-tfstate-backend

What channel would you recommend to ask about these questions?

I just joined this Slack like ~20 minutes ago but when I joined SlackBot send me a message with a lot of helpful suggestions

did you get that?

tl:dr #help #terraform #office-hours and sign up for office hours at https://cloudposse.com/office-hours

they also have a youtube channel with past/recent recordings of their office hours sessions on zoom: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvTIgk77GZg7hEs6dNIGs7A

@newbieCpo - were you able to get the help or find the answers you needed?

Thanks @sheldonh for the shout out. Can’t say how much it means to us and the team. It’s not about how much, but just the good will!

I really like chatops oriented tooling rather than having to always do things in pipelines. On demand tasks can be really nifty. I’ve learned though that there is a negative cost to this when it’s not your full time job to be a chatops engineer :stuck_out_tongue:

• Complexity in code
• Complexity in infrastructure
• Securing
• Ease of use
• Slack/Chatops Changes

I’ve been monitoring https://thycotic.slack.com/apps/A49L9N70F-ctoai CTO.ai with great interest. It seems to handle a ton of the complexity and overhead of setting up good slack app integrations (the custom modal dialogues and more that chatbots can’t do). It even has linked options to GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines and more from what I can. Security and other pieces are handled as well.

Anyone else experimented with this? I’m really interested in the promise this has over rolling my own solutions. Not only does it have chatops solved, but the same ops cli can be run locally, eliminating any need for slack if in a dev workflow + they have a Go SDK, and other languages for extended further.

I’m just a bit frustrated from my past exploration on setting up a secure slack webhook solution, things get tricky to properly secure, and this seems to eliminate a lot of the overhead by having a solid framework for this.

Would love thoughts/experiences. Cheers

Maybe a good topic for next week’s #office-hours

They do need to work on their email as no unsubscribe links and sorta spammy initially. Still seems promising

Thanks for the warm welcome!