Logs
Customer Service For Software Folk
2024-May-13 • by David Norton
If you build software, you are in the customer service business. Even if that software is used internally by other developers — a Kubernetes cluster, an internal API, or a shared Python library — your customers are the engineers and other professionals that work at your company.
This gives you the responsibility of supporting that software, and answering questions from your users. Read More
Cross-account image pulls with Amazon ECR pull-through cache
2023-Dec-15 • by David Norton
Amazon ECR's pull-through cache feature is a helpful tool to allow usage of public image repositories while buffering your system from unexpected downtime.
However, we ran into an issue because our artifacts (ECR images) were stored in a different AWS account than our compute (Kubernetes nodes).
Terraform module versions do not get pinned by lock file
2023-Apr-25 • by David Norton
Like Terraform providers, modules support a version range. Unlike providers, they do not get pinned by the
.terraform.lock.hcl file.
Terraform modules are opinions
2022-Nov-12 • by David Norton
If you don't have an opinion, don't distribute a module.
Ditch those static CI credentials! The beauty of dynamic cloud credentials for your pipelines using OIDC
2022-Jun-21 • by David Norton
Rather than manage static AWS credentials for your CI pipelines, use dynamic credentials via the GitLab OIDC provider.
Use yq to parse, filter, and generate YAML
2022-Mar-16 • by David Norton
yq is a handy tool for manipulating YAML.
Just say no to :latest
2022-Mar-02 • by David Norton
Don't specify latest in your Dockerfile! Or anywhere else! Do you want to live in a van down by the river?
Run a Tailscale VPN relay on ECS/Fargate
2022-Feb-22 • by David Norton
This is the first of our client logs, describing a problem encountered by a client, and a solution we helped design and deliver.
Today we'll describe how we used Tailscale and ECS to help our client build an inexpensive, simple VPN solution.