I got approved a few months ago and will have solar panels installed in the next few months. I am happy to hear there will be a second stage as I want to get my windows replaced next. If AB could elect a competent government I would also replace my mid-efficient furnace.
The first stable release of OpenTofu (the fork of Terraform) has now been released. This release is lagging behind the current 1.6.6 release of Terraform, but it is a big first step. This release is backwards compatible with Terraform 1.6.0 and includes a few new features....
Amazon has finished setting up their second Canadian AWS region. This is big news for anyone in western Canada as regional public cloud coverage has been non-existent, until now. Previously, your only options had been eastern Canada (Montreal) and eastern Canada (Toronto). This is also big news for data sovereignty on AWS....
It looks like the ‘TF’ part of OpenTF was too similar to Terraform and they have come up with a new name for the project. In addition, the project is now a part of the Linux Foundation and they have a new website....
I think it is the best option of all the possible choices I have seen and I can see how the ‘Open’ they tacked on is required for finding the project through searches. Adoption would have been be awful if they stuck with just ‘Tofu’. Adoption of tofu as a meat substitute could have improve, though.
us-east-1 and us-west-2 regions are experiencing networking issues and it also having an affect on a number of other cloud services that rely on those regions....
The Github repository for the community fork of Terraform (called OpenTF) has been made public. If you use any third-party tooling (SpaceLift, Scalr, Env0, Terraspace, Terragrunt, Atlantis, Digger, etc.) you will probably want to plan a switch to using OpenTF instead of Terraform to remain license compliant. Well, it is actually...
CloudFormation is the most featureless of the Infrastructure-as-Code template languages. It is miles behind Terraform, Azure ARM/Bicep, and Google Cloud Deployment Manger. I don’t think there has been any direct improvement with the language syntax since the introduction of YAML support over a decade ago. The core syntax and...
I have been researching the current state of Terraform automation and collaboration tools on behalf of a client and this is a new one that has emerged as a possible option. The client needs something to help manage their many pipelines and state files, but they are not big enough to need a full enterprise Terraform management...
The recent change in licensing across all Hashicorp products shows that Hashicorp is not able to or willing to compete with competitors to their enterprise offerings. Even though they officially don’t state it, the change is targeted at competitors such as Spacelift, Scalr, and Env0. Those competitors only came to be to fill...
The Terrawork (Terragrunt) people have posted their latest response. It looks like multiple companies have banded together and are fully behind forking Terraform, if required.
I’m following a tutorial for creating docker containers, and it is having me go through the AWS beanstalk to create the environment to host the app, but I can’t get the environment all the way there. Everytime I get some error about an instance profile I think it was called, and I’ve tried creating users, roles, and giving...
An instance profile is what I would call a legacy resource that really shouldn’t be needed, but is still there in the background for backwards compatibility. You can’t attach an IAM role directly to an EC2 instance. You need to have an instance profile in between that is named the same as the IAM role.
You can create one using every other interface (command line, CloudFormation, Terraform, SDKs, etc.), but not through the web console (browser). From the web console, you would need to recreate the IAM role and make sure you select EC2 as the purpose/service for the role. Only then will it create a matching instance profile along-side your new IAM role.
You can use aws iam list-instance-profiles to get a list of what is already created. I suspect there is something else wrong.
It cloud be looking for the default Beanstalk instance profile and role (aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role) as it isn’t auto-created anymore. It could also be a permission issue with the role’s policy.
Elastic Beanstalk is one of the few AWS services I haven’t used as it just deploys a number of other services and resources behind the scenes. It is more of a up-and-running-quick demonstration tool than something you would use IRL. It can be used, but there are better options.
I just came across this and thought I’d share. I’ve struggled to get headers and IC’s off boards after soldering them on backwards/upside down. This video shows a cool trick with a piece of copper wire that makes them very easy and quick to get off without expensive tooling. I was thoroughly impressed. Hope someone else...
“I saw a cat. I thought it was one of the Serval – the large breed cats – at first. And I went, ‘Oh, kitty.’ And then I saw the ears perked up and I said, ‘Oh, bobcat.’”
I was wonder how cloud providers seemed to have a bottomless pits of IPv4 addresses and weren’t more resistant to handing them out like candy. They should be charging more for this scarce resource. AWS was, until now, the only cloud provider to not charge for static public IPv4 addresses, as long as the elastic IP is in use....
It is looking like Canadian ISP support for IPv6 is still patchy. I am on Teksavvy which uses the Shaw network in Alberta and RogShaw doesn’t like to provide their struggling micro competitors any perks. I give myself a 4% chances of getting IPv6 support to work.
If I have time this long weekend, I will try to see if I need to change anything on my Technicolor modem and setup the IPv6 DHCP service on my Mikrotik firewall. My self-managed hardware should support it, my Jekyll and Hyde ISP, probably not.
Use this to see if you ISP supports the latest 90’s technology. test-ipv6.com
You would have to use an external tunnel service that will give you an IPv6 address on the internet. As you are sending your traffic through an external provider, it will be slower and they could be monitoring your traffic. Some ISPs even use these tunnelling service to quickly enable IPv6 access.
Tunnel brokers (RFC 3053) are organizations that provide, often for free, a manually or dynamically configured tunnel that encapsulates your IPv6 packets within IPv4 packets. The IPv6 packets at your home are encapsulated into IPv4 packets and sent across the IPv4-only ISP network to the tunnel broker service. When those packets reach the tunnel broker, they are decapsulated and the IPv6 packets are forwarded to the IPv6 Internet. This method can use a traditional GRE tunnel, an IPv4 protocol 41 tunnel, or might leverage the Tunnel Setup Protocol (TSP) (RFC 5572).
It is looking like Hurricane Electric (www.tunnelbroker.net) is the only one still providing this service, as far as I can find.
If you use a VPN that could be another option, if the VPN provider isn’t disabling IPv6 out of a potential privacy concern (PIA). Even if the VPN service supports IPv6, most VPN clients do not and your IPv6 DNS queries could get routed to your ISP. If you were using a VPN for privacy concerns, that would expose what websites you are accessing and defeat the purpose of a VPN. That is why VPN providers will sometime go out of their way to ensure IPv6 is disabled when the VPN is in use.
Prometheus will soon include support for ingesting OpenTelementry metrics into the platform. Even if you understood all of those words, you might be asking, “so what?”. This is a big deal for observability (fancy name for monitoring) as it is getting us one step closer to using a single agent to collect all observability...
If you use Fargate and have Linux x86 tasks with images over 250Mb, you might be interested in this new feature that should shave time off of your task deployments....
Hi, I’m looking to get a laptop Dock that will use USB-C connection from my laptop. I then want to plug into the Dock. 2 1080p hdmi monitors, Ethernet and whatever USB stuff like keyboard and mouse. Etc....
It is preferable to have the dock power the laptops. Then there is only 1 cable to plug in. If your personal laptop has a USB-C power, it can probably be powered through it. Plugging it in to you work laptop power supply shouldn’t break it as there is a lot of negotiating taking place before power is provided. You may want to search the internets first.
The Dell docks are also universal and will work. Avoid HP as they are proprietary. Some other brands (Plugable, Anker) work really well, but may not include the power adapter. Make sure you include the power adapter when comparing docks. I would get the new 100W USB-C adapters (UGreen or Anker) that can power your dock, devices, and laptop (by way of the dock).
I use a mix of Dell and Anker USB-C docks with Dell, HP, and Macbooks and run up to dual 4K displays and power the laptops (The HPs are limited).
There is a few things to watch out for. You laptop’s USB-C port needs to be a Thunderbolt port to work with a Thunderbolt dock. If it isn’t, you will need non-Thunderbolt USB-C dock.
The port needs to support Power Delivery (PD) and may still limit charging to 60W. You should get up to 82W after the dock takes its cut. Some laptops (Dell) support higher charging rates only with their own brand docks. If you are gaming, your battery will drain, just slowly.
The port should support Displayport even if you are using HDMI. Most docks will have a mix of DP and HDMI. You will need an ACTIVE DP to HDMI adapter. If one of your monitors has DP, use that insteaad of an adapter.
Greener Homes Grant program proves more popular than federal government expected (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
OpenTofu 1.6.0 released (opentofu.org)
The first stable release of OpenTofu (the fork of Terraform) has now been released. This release is lagging behind the current 1.6.6 release of Terraform, but it is a big first step. This release is backwards compatible with Terraform 1.6.0 and includes a few new features....
New AWS ca-west-1 (Calgary) region now available (aws.amazon.com)
Amazon has finished setting up their second Canadian AWS region. This is big news for anyone in western Canada as regional public cloud coverage has been non-existent, until now. Previously, your only options had been eastern Canada (Montreal) and eastern Canada (Toronto). This is also big news for data sovereignty on AWS....
OpenTF has been renamed OpenTofu (lemmy.ca)
It looks like the ‘TF’ part of OpenTF was too similar to Terraform and they have come up with a new name for the project. In addition, the project is now a part of the Linux Foundation and they have a new website....
AWS is having issues (health.aws.amazon.com)
us-east-1 and us-west-2 regions are experiencing networking issues and it also having an affect on a number of other cloud services that rely on those regions....
OpenTF fork is now live (opentf.org)
The Github repository for the community fork of Terraform (called OpenTF) has been made public. If you use any third-party tooling (SpaceLift, Scalr, Env0, Terraspace, Terragrunt, Atlantis, Digger, etc.) you will probably want to plan a switch to using OpenTF instead of Terraform to remain license compliant. Well, it is actually...
AWS CloudFormation finally, indirectly added looping support (aws.amazon.com)
CloudFormation is the most featureless of the Infrastructure-as-Code template languages. It is miles behind Terraform, Azure ARM/Bicep, and Google Cloud Deployment Manger. I don’t think there has been any direct improvement with the language syntax since the introduction of YAML support over a decade ago. The core syntax and...
Digger - A scalable and secure alternative to Atlantis for Terraform Automation and Collaboration (medium.com)
I have been researching the current state of Terraform automation and collaboration tools on behalf of a client and this is a new one that has emerged as a possible option. The client needs something to help manage their many pipelines and state files, but they are not big enough to need a full enterprise Terraform management...
Hashicorp's license change and what it means for the Terraform community (www.hashicorp.com)
The recent change in licensing across all Hashicorp products shows that Hashicorp is not able to or willing to compete with competitors to their enterprise offerings. Even though they officially don’t state it, the change is targeted at competitors such as Spacelift, Scalr, and Env0. Those competitors only came to be to fill...
Anyone have experience setting up an environment on Beanstalk?
I’m following a tutorial for creating docker containers, and it is having me go through the AWS beanstalk to create the environment to host the app, but I can’t get the environment all the way there. Everytime I get some error about an instance profile I think it was called, and I’ve tried creating users, roles, and giving...
VS Code’s Token Security: Keeping Your Secrets… Not So Secretly (cycode.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/1562654...
Neat trick for desoldering many-pin components (youtu.be)
I just came across this and thought I’d share. I’ve struggled to get headers and IC’s off boards after soldering them on backwards/upside down. This video shows a cool trick with a piece of copper wire that makes them very easy and quick to get off without expensive tooling. I was thoroughly impressed. Hope someone else...
Recent DevOps related releases for Aug 8th
Aqua Trivy 2.9.0...
Woman attacked by bobcat in Haysboro (globalnews.ca)
“I saw a cat. I thought it was one of the Serval – the large breed cats – at first. And I went, ‘Oh, kitty.’ And then I saw the ears perked up and I said, ‘Oh, bobcat.’”
AWS will charge for public IPv4 addresses soon (www.theregister.com)
I was wonder how cloud providers seemed to have a bottomless pits of IPv4 addresses and weren’t more resistant to handing them out like candy. They should be charging more for this scarce resource. AWS was, until now, the only cloud provider to not charge for static public IPv4 addresses, as long as the elastic IP is in use....
OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion into Prometheus (last9.io)
Prometheus will soon include support for ingesting OpenTelementry metrics into the platform. Even if you understood all of those words, you might be asking, “so what?”. This is a big deal for observability (fancy name for monitoring) as it is getting us one step closer to using a single agent to collect all observability...
AWS ECS Fargate adds streaming image support (aws.amazon.com)
If you use Fargate and have Linux x86 tasks with images over 250Mb, you might be interested in this new feature that should shave time off of your task deployments....
Question about laptop docks and multiple displays.
Hi, I’m looking to get a laptop Dock that will use USB-C connection from my laptop. I then want to plug into the Dock. 2 1080p hdmi monitors, Ethernet and whatever USB stuff like keyboard and mouse. Etc....
Visualization of 100 years of June land temperature anomalies (fediscience.org)
Keeps getting redder i.e. hotter. Like we didn’t know that already.