David J Eddy articles - 54 total
My thoughts on the HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification
As the landscape technologies that keep the internet running has changes over the past 60 years so...
How to: AWS Service Endpoints via Terraform for fun and profit
Originally posted on my blog. Recently I found myself designing a system that had AWS Lambda...
How To: Database clustering with MariaDB and Galera.
The Situation MariaDB, a fork of MySQL, has had multi-master clustering support from the the initial...
How to: Delete a stubborn Kubernetes namespaces.
deleting a stubborn Kubernetes namespace
Trial: 30 days with VueJs
My opinion on VueJS after 30 days
Intro: k3s, a less needy Kubernetes,
Intro: k3s, a less needy Kubernetes.
Intro: Hashicorp `Packer`
An introduction to Hashicorps' Packer and what I learned in one day.
What do you prefer: general all-in-one tools or focused single domain tools?
A question for the community regarding container images.
Whats your daily tool chain these days?
Technology changes faster than every, as a point in time reference, what is your daily tool chain today?
Tagging with Terraform
Using cloud resources can be accelerating to the business, liberating to the engineering teams, and expensive to bank account. Use tags to manage your resources!
10 years of web development; 10 life lessons.
10 years of web development; 10 life lessons.
FIX: Terraform + AWS: InvalidVPCNetworkStateFault
While working with Terraform and AWS recently I ran into an error that did not seem to have much information about it. After about a day of research and troubleshooting I was able to solve it.
Terraform 0.12 General Release
Back in July of last year Hashicorp announced the preview of Terraform 0.12. As of yesterday (May 22nd) 0.12 is now in generally availability
Project Release: Docker + AWS + Selenium + Terraform. Get it up and running.
Little side project to get Selenium Grid up and running.
How To: Upgrade WSL Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10
Upgrading WSL Ubuntu from 18.04 to 18.10 is possible; but...
Opinion: Architect VS Engineer VS Developer
(Opinion) Architect VS Engineer VS Developer.
IBM has released Unit Testing for Mainframes.
IBM recent announced that is has created a Unit Testing tool for Mainframe computers. This is an amazing step for legacy support within modern development practices.
Ever miss the forest for the trees?
Ever miss the forest for the trees?
How long until we can all access satellite data? Not long if AWS has its way...
How long until we can all access satellite data? Not long if AWS has its way...
How to fix "failed to delete stack: Role ... is invalid or cannot be assumed" in AWS CloudFormation
How to fix the "failed to delete stack: Role [...] is invalid or cannot be assumed" error when using AWS CloudFormation.
What is your biggest 'red flag' when interviewing?
Let's talk about the biggest turn offs during the hiring process.
Top 5 articles from my blog from 2018
2018 has been an eventful year for me personally. Here's the top 5 most popular articles from 2018.
My First 12 hours with Ruby
My personal opinions about Ruby after the first 12 hours.
90% of my job is...
To many jobsdescriptions are over complicated just to sound fancy. Let's have a little fun here....
Run Commands on a Remote Machine via SSH
What's the Point? Executing commands is one of the core tenants of computing. Sometimes, th...
Using `shellcheck` to lint your bash/sh scripts.
Being involved in technology, specifically web, it does not take long we have to write a bash (or shell) script.
How to use Golang's "go get" from behind a proxy.
How to use Golang's "go get" from behind a proxy.
What’s the difference: A/B Testing VS Blue/Green Deployment?
In today’s technology world many words and phrases come and go and even change meaning depending on the context. In this article we look at two similar sounding, and somewhat related, distinct terms: A / B Testing and Blue / Green Deployments.
Windows 10 WSL Ubuntu 18.04 proxy configuration for apt.
Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can be a great tool for dev's, op's, and admin's alike.
Is HTTP/2 really worth it?
Just how much performance does HTTP2 offer? Like many other things in technology; it depends. Rea on to learn the benefits and pitfalls of using HTTP/2.