grrywlsn

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by grrywlsn 3y ago
Cloud SQL is RDS; AlloyDB is Aurora.
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by grrywlsn 3y ago
I’d argue their attempts at having a plan for CSAM were preempting these exact types of arguments being made in bad faith by governments like the UK, who are actively engaging children’s charities to give their goal of breaking e2ee have so
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by grrywlsn 6y ago
How we manage Kubernetes clusters to do zero downtime migrations while processing live card payments.
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by grrywlsn 7y ago
Were Macs in scope of the original post? I assumed it was server side stuff, rather than office hardware. For that, though, I'd use Jamf (Pro) or some other MDM option.
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by grrywlsn 7y ago
Interesting to say you've "solve[d] persistence" when you seem to be limited by it here. Is there a particular reason your services can't be architected in less stateful, more 12-factor way?
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by grrywlsn 7y ago
Personally that's why I avoid Packer (or other AMI builders) and keep very tightly focussed machines set up by the cloud-init type process.
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by grrywlsn 7y ago
Yes, but to be clear, some of those containers have been .Net Core containers (running in Kubernetes) for me. I appreciate not having Windows in an estate isn't common to all setups.
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by grrywlsn 7y ago
(Genuinely curious) what old stuff do you think doesn't make sense to be set up immutably? and what odd stuff needs to run on a regular host?
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by grrywlsn 7y ago
The question asks what I would consider to be the right approach for 2020, and also what my team is doing. This is the design pattern I've been following for 5 years, but obviously your mileage may vary, it won't work for everyone
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by grrywlsn 7y ago
The original question didn't have much context, and I guess my answer assumed someone would be using a cloud provider as opposed to anything on premise. Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned
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by grrywlsn 7y ago
I'm curious why people use configuration management software in 2020. All of that seems like the old way of approaching problems to me. What I prefer to do is use Terraform to create immutable infrastructure from code. CoreOS and most