Kubernetes: Assigning Pod Security Policies with RBAC

Forcing Terraform to deploy a aws_api_gateway_deployment

Terraform’s aws_api_gateway_deployment won’t deploy subsequent releases in the event that something has changed in an integration, method, etc because nothing in the actual aws_api_gateway_deployment module changed. This is by…

Elixir Ecto put_assoc vs cast_assoc

TLDR; If the thing exists, use put_assoc. If you’re creating it, use cast_assoc.

Ecto has two nifty methods for working with associated records in a changeset.

Working with Kubernetes Jobs

Kubernetes defines a job as:

A job creates one or more pods and ensures that a…

Fixing ECS Tasks stuck in a pending state

I had a bunch of ECS Tasks after a deploy that were all…

Getting started with Kubernetes on Docker

Getting started with Kubernetes is easier than ever with…

Encrypting Secret Data at Rest with Kops

Configuring Kubernetes experimental encryption provider config in Kops is pretty…

Changing ECS Agent Timeout

I had a docker container running on Amazon’s ECS that was handling work from Simple Workflow. When a new image was deployed long running jobs were being terminated partially through their work when what I wanted to happen was let the job finish it’s work, then gracefully shutdown.

The Cloudwatch Dashboard API is a PITA to use with Terraform.

Writing all that JSON is a pain in the ass and is pretty much repetition of all of my alarms. So I created terraform-aws-cloudwatch_widget to generate the dashboard JSON code from alarms you create. Its not TF registry ready…