#geodesic (2024-05)
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2024-05-01
v2.10.0 Enhancements Initial support for dark mode terminals @Nuru (<a class=”issue-link js-issue-link” data-error-text=”Failed to load title” data-id=”2272818612” data-permission-text=”Title is private” data-url=”https://github.com/cloudposse/geodesic/issues/933“…
2024-05-04
v2.11.0 OpenTofu, Minor Breaking Changes Breaking Changes OpenTofu OK, not a breaking change, but we are excited about it: we have made it easy to install OpenTofu into Geodesic. At the command line or in your Dockerfile, just run: Debian:
# We recommend pinning the version to ensure reproducibility apt-get update && apt-get install tofu=1.6.2 Alpine:
# At this point, it seems there is only one version of OpenTofu available
# for Alpine, and a new version would be in a different…
2024-05-05
2024-05-08
v2.11.1 Enhancements
Dockerfile examples, Renovate config, color text bugfixes @Nuru (<a class=”issue-link js-issue-link” data-error-text=”Failed to load title” data-id=”2285058498” data-permission-text=”Title is private” data-url=”https://github.com/cloudposse/geodesic/issues/939“…
2024-05-11
v2.11.2 Build/Release Maintenance
PR & Release management maintenance @Nuru (<a class=”issue-link js-issue-link” data-error-text=”Failed to load title” data-id=”2290499005” data-permission-text=”Title is private” data-url=”https://github.com/cloudposse/geodesic/issues/940“…
2024-05-14
been thinking about the best way to have a portable collection of devops tooling that I can use from any machine, and my favorite approaches so far have been
• geodesic
• devcontainers
• maaaaaaybe nix any reasons I would pick one over the other? how are folks here handling multi aws assume role profiles effectively and kubeconfig ? .aws/config + kubeconfig files on the host machine? or baked into the containers?
I love this question. We have pondered and debated exactly these 3 options. So devcontainers is trying to achieve more or less the same thing that we set out to do with geodesic. That is geodesic predates devcontainers. We still use geodesic daily and have been slow to adopt devcontainers.
Devcontainers are optimized for the developer in the IDE. It’s well supported by vscode, less so by other IDEs.
Geodesic is optimized for the command line. It bind mounts volumes and configurations like the AWS config, to make it feel more natural.
Nix is used by multiple developers on our team. For a hot minute we entertained it, but while very cool and solves the things we want to achieve has a high barrier to entry and steep learning curve.
So why geodesic? It has the best of all 3, and is ultimately flexible to use how ever containers are used. It can be used as a remote shell with something like containerssh, it works seamlessly on the command line, we use it with EKS.
By bind mounting the AWS configs and using Leapp, we have seamless authentication between desktop and container.
gotcha, I do think geodesic is the front runner for me at the moment. I’ll give it a whirl this week
thanks for the info!