I used AWS in the early days before cloud computing was buzz or reality. The company where I was employed was developing a new website for selling products and they had a massive number of SKUs and tons of high-resolution product images. The old website was hosted at a colocation facility adjacent to the local … Continue reading AWS Has a Lambda Problem
This module creates an Enterprise Application in Azure AD in order to create a tile in the MyApps portal for any assigned users. This does not support passing any authentication, but will ride on any existing authentication. The use case I had was deploying an application in AWS which used SSO to Azure AD. The … Continue reading Terraform Module Release: terraform-azuread-application-link v0.0.1
This is a long story with a lot of backstory, but a lesson learned. Backstory In 2010, I came home from work to hear that my AC wasn't working. Up until this point, I had never done anything with HVAC besides set my thermostat and change air filters. It was miserable. We're accustomed to keeping … Continue reading When Learning by Analogy Fails
A coworker had a challenge wanting to do a merge() on a list of maps: list = [ { keyA = { subkey1 = "value1" } }, { keyA = { subkey2 = "value2" } }, { keyB = { subkey3 = "value3" } } ] The issue is that merge() takes a list of … Continue reading Terraform Module Release: terraform-data-combine-map v0.0.1
With the release of Terraform 1.5 comes a new block type, import. This follows on the addition of the moved block that came with Terraform 1.1. Both of these new block types represent a new way to manage state updates via code in preference to using the CLI commands, terraform import and terraform state mv, respectively. … Continue reading Using Terraform Import Blocks
I have been working from home for nearly a decade and have always been concerned about my ability to get things done. To satisfy that, I have run two internet connections. Years ago, I had two DSL lines from AT&T, predating U-Verse, and there was no bonding, which worked well for us because we were … Continue reading New Router with OPNsense
Azure Bastion is a fantastic service for securely accessing virtual machines deployed in Azure, relying on the capabilites of Azure AD and the Azure portal like Multi-Factor Authentication. In terms of cost, it isn't prohibitive for an organization that needs such a capability. However, when you're working in a significantly constrained subscription for the purposes … Continue reading Azure Bastion On-demand
With respect to immutability, the first exposure many folks in technology experience with with arrays. An array is a contiguous space of memory for elements of the same time to be groups together. We can quickly read the element because they're accessed sequentially. However, this adjacency limits our ability to expand because any new elements … Continue reading Embrace at Least Some of Immutable Infrastructure
There has been a lot of buzz related to Azure Terrafy lately with presentations at HashiConf Global and videos from Ned Bellavance. I have always had rather tempered expectations of the tool with good reason and my recent experience cemented my initial thoughts. Limitations The tool is not going to turnaround and generate elegant HCL … Continue reading First Thoughts on Azure Terrafy
I am often in a privileged position to watch people develop their skills based on the roles I am in. With respect to Terraform, I see folks learn the basics where they're hard coding values into all of the resource properties, then they move on to using input variables, and so on. Another interesting inflection … Continue reading Why Do We Write Terraform Modules?
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