Terraform Cloud Review
Review of Terraform Cloud…
IPv6 Is A Disaster (but we can fix it)
IP addresses have been in the news a lot lately and not for good reasons. AWS has announced they are charging $.005 per IPv4 address per hour, joining other cloud providers in charging for the luxury of a public IPv4 address. GCP charges $.004, same with Azure and Hetzner charges…
GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) Review
What if Kubernetes was idiot-proof? Love/Hate Relationship AWS and I have spent a frightening amount of time together. In that time I have come to love that weird web UI with bizarre application naming. It's like asking an alien not familiar with humans to name things. Why is Athena…
TIL How to write a Python CLI tool that writes Terraform YAML
I'm trying to use more YAML in my Terraform as a source of truth instead of endlessly repeating the creation of resources and to make CLIs to automate the creation of the YAML. One area that I've had a lot of luck with this is GCP IAM. This is due…
TIL About a comparison table of Google internal tools to external products
Link to comparison table of internal Google tools to external publicly available tools.…
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Review
AWS EKS Review…
Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
One surreal experience as my career has progressed is the intense feeling of deja vu you get hit with during meetings. From time to time, someone will mention something and you'll flash back to the same meeting you had about this a few jobs ago. A decision was made then,…
The hunt for a better Dockerfile
Time to thank Dockerfiles for their service and send them on their way For why I don't think Dockerfiles are good enough anymore, click here. After writing about my dislike of Dockerfiles and what I think is a major regression in the tools Operations teams had to work with, I…