Public “Office Hours” (2020-11-04)

Erik OstermanOffice Hours

Here's the recording from our DevOps “Office Hours” session on 2020-11-04.

We hold public “Office Hours” every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things DevOps/Terraform/Kubernetes/CICD related.

These “lunch & learn” style sessions are totally free and really just an opportunity to talk shop, ask questions and get answers.

Register here: cloudposse.com/office-hours

Basically, these sessions are an opportunity to get a free weekly consultation with Cloud Posse where you can literally “ask me anything” (AMA). Since we're all engineers, this also helps us better understand the challenges our users have so we can better focus on solving the real problems you have and address the problems/gaps in our tools.

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00:00 Introduction
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01:22 Terraform module released! Provision workspaces & configurations in Terraform Cloud via YAML configuration
https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-tfe-cloud-infrastructure-automation
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12:28 AWS public container registry as a response to Docker pull rate limit
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/advice-for-customers-dealing-with-docker-hub-rate-limits-and-a-coming-soon-announcement/
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14:29 AWS to embrace multi-cloud (or poly-cloud?)
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/multi-cloud-is-the-worst-practice/
https://docs.scalr.com/en/latest/
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19:02 Docker pull through cache feature possible in Kubernetes?
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/
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23:42 ALBs now support gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support ALB ingress PR is open
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25:05 Improve cost management in AWS with Budget Actions
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27:14 Options for publicly exposing local dev environment from your laptop.
https://github.com/inlets/inlets-operator
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33:30 Most important Kubernetes concepts
https://emprovisetech.blogspot.com/2018/12/kubernetes-container-orchestration-at.html
https://kubernetesbyexample.com/
https://learnk8s.io/blog/kubectl-productivity
https://www.katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Running-Dive-Future-Infrastructure/dp/1491935677
https://www.manning.com/books/kubernetes-in-action
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37:22 Should a dev deploying to Kubernetes need to understand Kubernetes?
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52:22 Best way to do automated backups to EFS?
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56:32 What do you use to backup Kubernetes persistent volumes?

Public “Office Hours” (2020-10-28)

Erik OstermanOffice Hours

Here's the recording from our DevOps “Office Hours” session on 2020-10-28.

We hold public “Office Hours” every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things DevOps/Terraform/Kubernetes/CICD related.

These “lunch & learn” style sessions are totally free and really just an opportunity to talk shop, ask questions and get answers.

Register here: cloudposse.com/office-hours

Basically, these sessions are an opportunity to get a free weekly consultation with Cloud Posse where you can literally “ask me anything” (AMA). Since we're all engineers, this also helps us better understand the challenges our users have so we can better focus on solving the real problems you have and address the problems/gaps in our tools.

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00:00 Introduction
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01:17 AWS ALB Ingress v2 Finally Released!
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02:13 AWS Lambda Extensions to Securely Retrieve Secrets From HashiCorp Vault
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05:07 Microsoft’s Kubernetes Threat Matrix and What’s Missing
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08:03 EKS Fargate and why you need snowflake sidecars
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09:34 AWS OpenTelemetry distro available for public preview
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/public-preview-aws-distro-open-telemetry/
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11:22 Do you need local Kubernetes development tools or is Docker Compose good enough?
https://tilt.dev/
https://skaffold.dev/
https://microk8s.io/
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15:48 What are the challenges working with polyrepos vs monorepos and is there a middle ground?
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30:03 How useful are buildpacks?
https://buildpacks.io/
https://github.com/pivotal/kpack
https://www.waypointproject.io/plugins/pack
https://digital.hashiconf.com/on-demand-videos/opening-keynote-KNwDxYvfS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK6e_ZatOaw
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38:49 Past failures and lessons learned
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47:45 Choosing the right monitoring tool and why open source options aren't free
https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-future-of-ops-jobs
https://www.honeycomb.io/
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56:59 How to reduce costs of NAT gateways

Public “Office Hours” (2020-10-21)

Erik OstermanOffice Hours

Here's the recording from our DevOps “Office Hours” session on 2020-10-21.

We hold public “Office Hours” every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things DevOps/Terraform/Kubernetes/CICD related.

These “lunch & learn” style sessions are totally free and really just an opportunity to talk shop, ask questions and get answers.

Register here: cloudposse.com/office-hours

Basically, these sessions are an opportunity to get a free weekly consultation with Cloud Posse where you can literally “ask me anything” (AMA). Since we're all engineers, this also helps us better understand the challenges our users have so we can better focus on solving the real problems you have and address the problems/gaps in our tools.

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00:00:00 Introduction
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00:01:20 Waypoint Project by HashiCorp + Helmfile plugin for Waypoint
https://www.waypointproject.io/
https://github.com/mumoshu/waypoint-plugin-helmfile
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00:18:52 Terraform 0.14.0 Eminent (beta 1) with strict upgrade requirements, the new 0.14 Dependency Lock File locks providers only 🙁
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/terraform-v0-14-beta-testing/15752
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/v0.14/website/upgrade-guides/0-14.html.markdown
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/terraform-0-14-the-dependency-lock-file/15696
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00:22:28 Suppressing Sensitive Variables from Terraform CLI cosmetic output (not statefile)
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/terraform-0-14-suppressing-variable-values-in-cli-output/15758
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00:26:03 Automatic Alpine/Debian Package Updates LIVE!
https://github.com/cloudposse/packages
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00:29:38 Using Mergify to auto merge code
https://mergify.io/
https://github.com/cloudposse/packages/blob/master/.github/mergify.yml
https://docs.mergify.io/conditions.html#attributes
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00:41:17 How to optimize the cost of test automation for infrastructure
https://github.com/cloudposse/testing.cloudposse.co/blob/master/.github/aws-nuke.yaml
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00:43:35 Managing GitHub templates for issues and pull requests, READMEs
https://github.com/cloudposse/build-harness/tree/master/templates
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00:48:49 Review of GitHub Action private runners with aws-nuke
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00:53:25 How to balance billable work vs “overhead”

Public “Office Hours” (2020-10-14)

Erik OstermanOffice Hours

Here's the recording from our DevOps “Office Hours” session on 2020-10-14.

We hold public “Office Hours” every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things DevOps/Terraform/Kubernetes/CICD related.

These “lunch & learn” style sessions are totally free and really just an opportunity to talk shop, ask questions and get answers.

Register here: cloudposse.com/office-hours

Basically, these sessions are an opportunity to get a free weekly consultation with Cloud Posse where you can literally “ask me anything” (AMA). Since we're all engineers, this also helps us better understand the challenges our users have so we can better focus on solving the real problems you have and address the problems/gaps in our tools.

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00:00:00 Intro
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00:01:16 HashiConf 2020 Happening Now! See Announcements
https://hashiconf.com/digital-october/schedule
https://sweetops.slack.com/archives/CB6GHNLG0/p1602693125241200
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00:08:02 New Terraform Module for Terraform Cloud Agent for Kubernetes
https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-kubernetes-tfc-cloud-agent
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00:10:55 Alpine 3.X Packages Support thanks to Cloudsmith
https://github.com/cloudposse/packages
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00:13:27 Helm Hub is now Artifact Hub
https://helm.sh/blog/helm-hub-moving-to-artifact-hub/
https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?page=1&ts_query_web=kafka+operator
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00:15:08 Great Stuff in Q4 2020 – SpotInst Ocean Node Groups, TFC Support, Reference Architectures, Enhanced Datadog Monitors, Enhanced OpsGenie Modules, et al
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00:21:12 How are folks managing service env var configuration in K8s with Helm?
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00:36:08 How to ensure kubectl command called in terraform (via local_exec) will succeed?
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00:41:05 Do you pin the version of TF and/or your providers/plugins?
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01:07:23 Outro
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Public “Office Hours” (2020-10-07)

Erik OstermanOffice Hours

Here's the recording from our DevOps “Office Hours” session on 2020-10-07.

We hold public “Office Hours” every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things DevOps/Terraform/Kubernetes/CICD related.

These “lunch & learn” style sessions are totally free and really just an opportunity to talk shop, ask questions and get answers.

Register here: cloudposse.com/office-hours

Basically, these sessions are an opportunity to get a free weekly consultation with Cloud Posse where you can literally “ask me anything” (AMA). Since we're all engineers, this also helps us better understand the challenges our users have so we can better focus on solving the real problems you have and address the problems/gaps in our tools.

Public “Office Hours” (2020-09-30)

Erik OstermanOffice Hours

Here's the recording from our DevOps “Office Hours” session on 2020-09-30.

We hold public “Office Hours” every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things DevOps/Terraform/Kubernetes/CICD related.

These “lunch & learn” style sessions are totally free and really just an opportunity to talk shop, ask questions and get answers.

Register here: cloudposse.com/office-hours

Basically, these sessions are an opportunity to get a free weekly consultation with Cloud Posse where you can literally “ask me anything” (AMA). Since we're all engineers, this also helps us better understand the challenges our users have so we can better focus on solving the real problems you have and address the problems/gaps in our tools.