Public “Office Hours” (2020-10-21)

Erik OstermanOffice Hours

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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”

Author Details
CEO
Erik Osterman is a technical evangelist and insanely passionate DevOps guru with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting systems for AWS. After leading major cloud initiatives at CBS Interactive as the Director of Cloud Architecture, he founded Cloud Posse, a DevOps Accelerator that helps high-growth Startups and Fortune 500 Companies own their infrastructure in record time by building it together with customers and showing them the ropes.