#office-hours - December 2019

Anyone from #office-hours going to #aws-reinvent ?

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Anyone excited about the new releases from AWS reinvent

I can tell you that Google (internally) measures all this stuff in great detail

@Igor Rodionov I am hugely interested in this topic

and I have an ongoing conversation with Kawaguchi (the Jenkins guy) about finding these patterns in build logs

AWS Ecs vs fargate or just go with ElasticBeanS for complex web app ???

OPA is a great tool lots of companies are start using it in berlin.

I joined late I was curious about If fargate would be a viable alternative for scalability and cost optimization

Too soon to know 😃

@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) check this https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/terraform/

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Hey what are we talking about today ?

Taking suggestions!

Anything interesting you came across this week?

Deprecation of the stable and incubator helm repos, and more topics of the tech radar maybe ?

Is it official now?

I see

Just as a heads up not really a topic to talk about IMHO

It’s a good heads up

I recall seeing the chatter in sweetops a few days ago

I'd love to hear you talk about what you guys went through when choosing your CI platform. You went with Codefresh, but you must have evaluated a bunch of others like Circle CI, Travis, etc

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@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) no mic today - for that PSA about helm, what ARE the alternatives?

PullReminders is awesome BTW. And it's free now since GitHub/Microsoft acquired them

https://hub.helm.sh points to a few private repos, so I assumed the deprication was in part to get folks to migrate to Helm 3 faster and in part to encourage others to host their own repositories (like PPAs)

TeamCity when I used it allowed me to connect a remote debugger, I could put break points in and debug live against a running pipeline. I don't think I could jump in after the fact though. It's been a few years since I've touched it

There's about five ways to test Jenkins JobDSL code locally at edX, but only a few are public for:
https://build.testeng.edx.org/
https://github.com/edx/jenkins-configuration/blob/master/Makefile#L50

We have an ArgoCD POC up and have looked at CodeFresh, but our CI workflows move pretty slowly.

messy build since it is a new project but our circleci helmfile pipeline looks like..

Helmfile lint -> diff against dev, int, prod -> approval steps for the next steps -> applying in order

our "helmfile root modules" 😃 https://github.com/cloudposse/helmfiles/tree/master/releases

@Adam Blackwell https://helm-notifier.com/

also see #kubecost

Maybe something for next week:
Functions inside of kubernetes knative vs OpenFaas and the cluster operator benefit that might come with it. I was recently approached by one of our engineers that it would be much nicer to have one interface that the docker containers / services have to comply to.

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Update on using the Timeular app after using it for a few days:

It works great! It works really well if you are doing a lot of context switching during the day, and need to track how long you spend on the different activities you do. For me, since I work for a systems integrator, and am currently supporting a couple of different clients on different contracts, I am able to more easily track how much time I spent on each contract during the course of the day.

It also has meant more time tracked. Before, I was "eyeballing it", and filling out my timesheet with ~8 hours of work. But now, I can be much more precise, and I am finding that I usually work more than 8 hours, and have been "estimating away" that extra time

Edit: Not an ad for Timeular! I didn't buy the gadget. I'm using the app with their "free" account.

(I bought a few of them - going to test it with our team! Will let you know how it goes)

I also ordered 4 of them for my team.

I'm still a fan of wakatime tracking my CLI usage

wakatime was an honorable mention in last week's office hours

also, forget who, someone else was using it! 😃

I see Mr. Blackwell mentioned it 😃 good show

I am using it as well. 👍️ But more in the background since my job is so much more than coding atm.

Does someone have recommendation for a tool that allows me to draw up a goal infrastructure .. (I am not a big fan of Whiteboards.. 😄
I know of lucidchart etc. but I would be interessed in what are people using in the day to day business.

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@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) Here are the 2 PR’s I’m most interested in at the moment:
1. this one is I think pretty easy, just a bump in the label module https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-s3-log-storage/pull/22

And… https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-efs-backup/pull/43 is a bit more complex, I think I need a little help to get it plugged into codefresh

click the link i posted, it starts the video at the 1 hour timestamp

@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) the guy at codefresh was Bill Dowell

Helm 3 has much better support for CRDs. I think that’s what I was thinking about
https://helm.sh/docs/topics/chart_best_practices/custom_resource_definitions/

From James Bohrman to Everyone: (12:01 PM)

Terraconsole seems interesting.

From zloeber to Everyone: (12:13 PM)

Worth keeping an eye on for the service mesh install space: <https://supergloo.solo.io/>

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...wasn't there going to be something about the bastion docker image? Or did we not have time to cover it.

Oh it was just an honorable mention for https://sweetops.slack.com/archives/CRWTU2887/p1576698121003900

Unrelated to the CloudPosse #bastion

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Awesome!