grrywlsn's comments

grrywlsn | 2 years ago | on: AlloyDB AI: Generative AI applications with PostgreSQL

Cloud SQL is RDS; AlloyDB is Aurora.

grrywlsn | 2 years ago | on: Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning

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 some emotional societal weight.

grrywlsn | 5 years ago | on: Disposable Kubernetes Clusters

How we manage Kubernetes clusters to do zero downtime migrations while processing live card payments.

grrywlsn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

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.

grrywlsn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

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?

grrywlsn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

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.

grrywlsn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

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.

grrywlsn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

(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?

grrywlsn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

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, etc.

grrywlsn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

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?

grrywlsn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

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 Linux variants can be configured at boot time (cloud-config, Ignition, etc) to start and run a certain workload. Ideally, all of your workloads would be containerised, so there's no need for configuration drift, or for any management software to be running on the box. If you need to update something, create the next version of your immutable machine and replace the existing ones.