#random (2021-06)

It seems fairly common to encounter playgrounds / GraphiQL setups in the wild, such as with GitLab. Not sure if that’s bad or not.

We’ve locked ours down by IP. I think it depends on whether you have a public api or not. If you do, it could be a useful tool for people using your api. We don’t have a public api, so locking it down made the most sense to us.

Anyone can run graphql playground, graphiql, altair or a similar tool locally and just put in your actual API URL if you don’t host one for them.

This is golden! Bookmarked

https://twitter.com/search?q=fastly&src=typed_query&f=live

It’s hard to answer what is “best” since different things are “best” in different situations. Can you talk a bit about what your situation is and what outcomes you are looking for?

For example, in my team, we were looking for the ability to abstract Zero Trust and centralized logging away from the application development efforts and into the platform, so we chose Istio

To partially answer #3, yes, having both is a common pattern

For the others… what problem are you trying to solve?

E.g. I work on Linkerd and our focus is on minimalism, performance, and “feeling” like the rest of K8s. If that’s important to you then IMO it’s a good choice. If you have other goals (especially around integrating non-K8s components into your mesh) then you might look at other options.

We use kops to setup cluster and use traefik for control gateway. For app gateway and for mesh we use istio

@antonbabenko did a ‘weekly dose of terraform’ a few weeks back talking about a eks boilerplate that you could have a look at? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giVShrQHf8E

Have you seen the CloudPosse video comparing the different “TACoS” providers?

(disclaimer: I’m from env0)

we offer unlimited concurrency

https://youtu.be/4MLBpBqZmpM

Nope, I didn’t, thank you! I have something to see at lunch haha

TF cloud why you so expensive

This question comes up all the time — The video helps. Good alternatives to TFC are:

1. Scalr
2. Spacelift
3. Env0 (though unfortunately doesn’t have a Terraform provider which is the killer for me) I just completed a migration from TFC to Spacelift and I’m a big fan.

@Matt Gowie we actually have a Terraform provider - https://registry.terraform.io/providers/env0/env0/latest

(I am the co-founder and CTO of env0)

@omry Ah glad to see it launched! Ya’ll are now in the running in my mind. I’ll be sure to check out the provider and hit ya’ll up for a demo sometime.

Sure thing @Matt Gowie, we’ll be happy to give you a demo and show you the product

Use terraform for the foundational infrastructure capable of supporting most tools. Use what ever other tool developers want for their applications. Serverless, CDK, CFT, etc

very interesting, thanks @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

A second ago I answered it somewhere else)))

thanks a lot. Really appreciate.

We prefer Terraform over the others due to CloudPosse’s secure by default, context.tf, other good practices, and helpful community. We’ve also used AWS SAM and CDK for certain things like lambdas, apigw, or when developers prefer not to learn another language.

Okay, I get it. So it’s a bit like for Erik. Your basis is on TF, but there’s an open door for what developers might want/need on top of that. Thanks a lot for sharing

Agree, I’m starting adding steampipe to my terraform scripts, as reading values after applying and make sure you get what you applied. also to generate a nice reports about infrastructure

it support all services? still never tried steampipe but looks a really helpful tool

It does look very neat

Also probably signed myself up to a lawsuit from AWS

i don’t believe you

Moved it to random as it seems it fits better

Interesting that they have some open questions which, I think, have been more or less closed already by tools such as helmfile and approaches such as monochart