Back in 2019 when I started at BJSS as a fairly junior Platform Engineer I was first introduced to Terraform around the time when 0.11 and 0.12. If you remember that migration path, you’ll know it wasn’t exactly the gentlest onboarding experience.
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There are many ways to manage cloud infrastructure and code we cram on it. In working with projects from the scale of one person’s hobby project to a service supporting millions of daily users there are considerations on how to deploy and deliver stuff in the cloud. When looking particularly at cloudy Serverless deployments here are some 5-ish patterns I like for handling the delivery, why, and the considerations involved.
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For a long time now most container based workloads and projects I have worked with have needed EC2 Bastion hosts for various reasons; as Fargate in particular has expanded features and general functionality those needs for an EC2 bastion hosts have been in decline.
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I know the AWS CLI is different to the AWS CDK used by the provider and the two are not the same. For the sake of this explanation of my issue its good enough
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One of the first tools I picked up walking in to the DevOps world was Terraform, I found it a bit challenging to get to grips with one major concept. The language itself is easy enough to get to grips with but actually structuring anything slightly complex just didn’t click for me.
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