drewmullen articles - 24 total
Setting a multi-line variable as an ENV in Terraform Cloud
#terraform #tfc #envvar
Deploy Cloudflare Tunnels with Terraform & Kubernetes
This blog will give you a brief overview for exposing services from a private network to the public...
Terraform state with native s3 locking
Terraform has many popular mechanisms for storing its state file. While I have grown quite fond of...
AWS Creds in the CLI via SSO
Brief description of an easy way to get AWS credentials from AWS SSO via CLI
Implement Rollback with Terraform
There's no magic here, friends. $ terraform apply # fails $ git checkout HEAD~ # checkout the...
Terraform: Variable validation with samples
How to use Terraform validation blocks and some common uses
Terraform: Common aws_ami Searches
It should not be this difficult to search for a dang AMI
Terraform Boilerplate: Provider block for every AWS region
Just some boilerplate HCL
Terraform: Compare lists of maps for equality
use terraform functions to compare 2 lists of maps for equality
VSCode + Terraform Provider Development: Setup Debugging
How to setup debugging in VSCode for when developing to the AWS Terraform Provider
Terraform: Prevent default_tags on a specific resource
Prevent AWS default_tags from being applied to a specific resource
Terraform: take a slice of a list with an unknown depth
How to take a slice of a list using terraform functions
Stop using SSH, use AWS Session Manager
I will never again open a port on a security group explicitly for ssh. Session manager is fantastic, let me show you.
Mock a SQS queue with moto
an example for using python library moto to mock the aws sqs api
Terraform: Delete an Item from a List
snippet for how to remove an item from a terraform list
Validate Cloudformation parameters with custom logic
This post shows how you can validate parameters meet logical conditions in your cloudformation stack. This allows for faster fails in circumstances when user provides properly linted but logically false values.
Send Memory Utilization Metrics to CloudWatch
Below reviews 2 ways to collect extra metrics from an ec2 instance and send to cloudwatch. The first...
A Python Data Types Chart for the Forgetful
A Python Data Types Chart
Terraform: use for_each instead of count
use terraform's for_each instead of count
Mac: bluetooth reset via terminal
a cli fix for when your bluetooth mouse disconnects
Terraform: use a variable's value to define another variable
Use a Terraform variable's value to define another variable
creating a sublist from a deep element in Ansible
how to extract items from a list buried in an element using jmespath
Terraform: turn a centos vm into a linux router
while building your VM, enable IP forwarding and also pass this remote-exec provisioner...
How to run simple tests against custom Ansible modules
Quick insight on how to test Ansible modules in CLI and in VSCode