Ryan LaneinLyft EngineeringAnnouncing omnibot: a Slack proxy and Slack bot frameworkWe’re pleased to announce the initial open source release of omnibot: a Slack proxy, and Slack bot framework. We’re also releasing a python…Dec 11, 2019Dec 11, 2019
Ryan LaneinLyft EngineeringSaltStack as an Alternative to Terraform for AWS OrchestrationA few years ago Lyft made a decision to move away from using Puppet for configuration management, to using SaltStack (salt). We had already…Aug 30, 20172Aug 30, 20172
Ryan LaneinLyft EngineeringConfidant version 1.1 releasedNearly a year ago we announced the initial release of Confidant. Since then we’ve continued active development, and today are happy to…Aug 30, 2016Aug 30, 2016
Ryan LaneinLyft EngineeringExtending IAM Policy and AWS APIs Using KMS and LambdaI believe AWS Lambda is an exciting service, though maybe not for the reasons you’d expect. Rather than breathlessly talking about…Aug 2, 2016Aug 2, 2016
Ryan LaneinLyft EngineeringScoping AWS IAM roles to Docker containersAmazon Web Services (AWS) has a really great security feature, called IAM roles, that can be used with EC2 as instance profiles. When you…Mar 9, 20162Mar 9, 20162
Ryan LaneinLyft EngineeringFinding a needle in a haystackSecrets don’t belong in source code. At Lyft we use a secret management system (Confidant) to ensure our repositories are free of secrets…Feb 9, 2016Feb 9, 2016
Ryan LaneinLyft EngineeringAnnouncing Confidant: an open source secret management service from LyftI’m pleased to announce the initial open source release of Confidant, a secret management service for AWS users, built by engineers at…Nov 4, 20153Nov 4, 20153