DevOps "Office Hours" (2025-11-26)

Cloud Posse holds public "Office Hours" every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things related to DevOps, Terraform, Kubernetes, CICD. Basically, it's like an interactive "Lunch & Learn" session where we get together for about an hour and talk shop. These are totally free and just an opportunity to ask us (or our community of experts) any questions you may have. You can register here: https://cloudposse.com/office-hours Join the conversation: https://slack.cloudposse.com/ Find out how we can help your company: https://cloudposse.com/quiz https://cloudposse.com/accelerate/ Learn more about Cloud Posse: https://cloudposse.com https://github.com/cloudposse https://sweetops.com/ https://newsletter.cloudposse.com https://podcast.cloudposse.com/ #officehours,#cloudposse,#sweetops,#devops,#sre,#terraform,#kubernetes,#awsexpert Timestamps: [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:56] Announcements [00:01:04] EC2 Instance Family Performance Ranking https://go.runs-on.com/instances/ranking [00:02:20] AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/aws-nat-gateway-regional-availability/ [00:03:59] It's Time To Kill Staging: The Case for Testing in Production https://thenewstack.io/its-time-to-kill-staging-the-case-for-testing-in-production/ [00:06:24] The fate of “small” open source (by nolan lawson) https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/ https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/ [00:10:46] Amazon ECS Express Mode (Terraform support forthcoming) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/build-production-ready-applications-without-infrastructure-complexity-using-amazon-ecs-express-mode/ https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/pull/45235 [00:12:24] AWS CodeCommit receives stay of execution https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/aws-codecommit-returns-to-general-availability/ [00:15:01] How we built a 130,000-node GKE cluster | Google Cloud Blog https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-we-built-a-130000-node-gke-cluster/ [00:16:01] Terrascan project archived https://github.com/tenable/terrascan/pull/1740/files [00:16:45] Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL introduces dynamic data masking https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-aurora-postgresql-dynamic-data-masking/ [00:18:42] Q&A [00:19:30] Terraform Custom Module MCP Server https://blog.zacharyloeber.com/article/terraform-custom-module-mcp-server/ https://github.com/zloeber/terraform-ingest [00:24:37] Transitioning from Vault to OpenBao Experiences [00:26:56] Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! [00:27:43] Outro