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I expected that the provisioning aspect will swallow a lion's share of my time devoted to upgrade. I knew that the iterations that help my discovery process and testing are going to be really slow when run on certain cloud services. That's in contrast to superfast iterations when executing code locally: CloudFront …
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CDK is an interface between you and CloudFormation Simply speaking, CDK is just a CloudFormation generator, but wait ... that's a good thing. CloudFormation is powerful, just not pleasant to use, in my opinion. I find CloudFormation hard to read, long-winded, non-extendable, arbitrarily structured, and I dislike the …
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Pets or cattle This analogy highlights the different approach we take when managing resources. Pets approach as equivalent of long-lived, manually managed resources With pets, we care about their name, we tend to them regularly, and they get that special spot in our life. More importantly, we want them to live long, …
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Introduction Surprisingly, to-date, I wrote little about the technologies behind this blog or about the tech journey it went on. Recently, I decided to improve the process behind it and update the tech stack as it aged. As I was already in that mental context, I wanted to share it and document some findings that may be …
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What is it? This terraform project will execute given script on AWS EC2 (installation here) and take AMI snapshot of it so that future EC2 can be spun up from that AMI, without the burden of running initial installation. Terraform destroy subcommand will purposefully NOT destroy the AMI, but will destroy the original …
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This post shows Terraform configuration files I have used to create base AWS stack for my projects. It is a minimal configuration for new VPC with public/private subnets and autoscaling bastion. Following is my best attempt at illustrating it. The stack consists of var.az_count (declared in variables.tf) subnets with …
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