Cloud Posse DevOps "Office Hours" (2022-01-19)

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.

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[00:00:00​] Intro
[00:01:28​] GitHub to Support Mermaid diagrams that can be displayed within Markdown
https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/372
[00:02:16​] On-call Engineer’s Dinner for FAMILY during incidents should be expensed
https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1482895726581485572?s=21
[00:03:34​] AWS Proton Adds Terraform Support and Git Template Storage
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/01/proton-terraform-git/
[00:06:17​] New Cloud Posse Terraform module to manage AWS Service Quotas
https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-service-quotas
[00:08:59​] Get Infra costs from your Spacelift runs
https://docs.spacelift.io/vendors/terraform/infracost
[00:12:27​] AWS SSM Now Supports Outgoing Webhooks
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/01/aws-systems-manager-automation-third-party-applications-webhooks/
[00:12:51​] AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks from Slack (using AWS Chatbot)
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/01/aws-systems-manager-automation-runbooks-slack/
https://aws.amazon.com/chatbot/
[00:13:10​] Terraform v1.1.4 released (nothing really noteworthy)
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.1.4
[00:18:23​] PSA terraform-provider-awsutils gotchas
https://sweetops.slack.com/archives/CB6GHNLG0/p1642600261130900?thread_ts=1642600040.130400&cid=CB6GHNLG0
[00:22:08​] Slick GitHub Action for Terraform (via weekly.tf)
https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/tfcmt
[00:27:41​] What is a good way to ensure that a terraform plan on one branch does not block other branches from doing terraform plan?
https://sweetops.slack.com/archives/CHDR1EWNA/p1642620072006600
[00:34:19​] Most organizations have at least 1 of these infrastructure problems? How are you solving them?
[00:45:30​] Does anyone use, or has anyone used Ansible enough to shed some light on when (what types of tasks) Ansible would definitely be better than Terraform?
[00:53:02​] Is it really a common practice to run terraform plan continuously to detect drifts?
[00:57:17​] Outro