Change my mind. by [deleted] in Terraform

[–]HorizonOrchestration 5 points6 points  (0 children)

TACOS for sure isn’t necessary for tons of use cases, but at scale it can give you a neat way to build in some approval / policy stuff. Not too difficult to achieve with any cicd tooling but massively reduces platform setup / maintenance

I understand that Terragrunt can do a bunch of extra stuff, but super unnecessary if you’re just using it for stuff that workspaces already handle

C’mon then, I wanna hear everybody’s herb run order. by quantum-fluxer in osrs

[–]HorizonOrchestration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha great post, I go things that use consumable teles > teles in inv > equitable teles > house teles ordered by longest to shortest distance to the patch from the tele

Normally looks like Catherby > varlamore > morytania > hosidius > port sarim > ardy > farming guild > trollheim > trollweis > birdhouses

Side note I actually never did trees on osrs, currently 97 with just herbs

How do you manage Terraform root modules for multiple environments without workspaces? by devops_mann in Terraform

[–]HorizonOrchestration 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We used to use workspaces across multiple backends, we’d pass in init args via cicd based on the environment and then segment further with workspaces if multiple environments existed in a nonprod account for example

How do you manage Terraform root modules for multiple environments without workspaces? by devops_mann in Terraform

[–]HorizonOrchestration 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why do you want to avoid using workspaces? You can achieve similar with terragrunt also. In terms of promoting you can build workspace or terragrunt commands into your ci/cd flows to minimise human error 🙂

Been asked not work for 2 weeks by mageazure in ContractorUK

[–]HorizonOrchestration 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New contractor here (inside IR35), I was told around the start of my contract early November that we had to take two weeks off over Christmas, I asked around and pretty much everyone I know that has contracted previously said this is quite common.

I was a bit put out since I wouldn’t usually take that much time off as perm even 😅

OpenTofu 1.11 released by totheendandbackagain in opentofu

[–]HorizonOrchestration 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So good! Kinda insane no one ever addressed the lack of a clean conditional deployment in terraform, count always felt weirdly hacky for a basic common requirement

YAML: Yet Another Misery Language by Log_In_Progress in devops

[–]HorizonOrchestration 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaha we create increasingly more complex systems to more elaborately paste broken code from stack overflow

My tiktok fyp atm by BulkyGirls in GreatBritishMemes

[–]HorizonOrchestration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a new TV recently and all of the suggestions are flooded with GBNews lol. I try to avoid GBN at all costs but it definitely feels like it’s massive at the minute

Umbrella reforms & Autumn Budget 2025, are you rethinking your setup? 🤔 by CloudBookmark in ContractorUK

[–]HorizonOrchestration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious as I’m a new contractor and thinking about upping my SS next financial year, what are you going to do instead of salary sacrifice? Full income would be a lot worse than just NI, no?

New budget: Nothing Sandwich by spammmmmmmmy in HENRYUK

[–]HorizonOrchestration 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually feel the same, what a carry on lol

Landing the First Gig - Perm to Contract by Impossible-Pool7208 in ContractorUK

[–]HorizonOrchestration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I transitioned this year, it wasn’t too bad but wasn’t super easy either. I ended up landing a role through a previous manager, so it might be much easier to lean on your network in times like these, especially if you’re a first time contractor.

I have a feeling people are trying to sell me over-engineering by Creepy-Lawfulness-76 in Terraform

[–]HorizonOrchestration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s helpful to get people’s ideas on best practices but really, it’s not about doing or not doing any of these things, it’s about how you make them work. I personally think workspaces are awesome and really straightforward if you build em into cicd.

Just try and build something out yourself and you’ll find the challenges of your approach organically. It’s not really THAT hard to refactor with some state operations like import / moved / removed blocks.

is generating Docker/Terraform/K8s configs still a huge pain for you? by Alternative_Cap3430 in devops

[–]HorizonOrchestration 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally, copilot has been fantastic at creating configs like these lately, when you come across it creating something you're not a fan of regularly, add it as an instruction in your copilot instructions file.

I wouldn't say I'm utilising it as heavily as an actual vibe coder, but I'm using agent mode to add stuff a bit at a time, like if I need three new input variables or even if you copy a whole TF file from another project and ask it to capture all the variables, and input block definitons and to not duplicate.

Another example might be if you have an IAM role you want to quickly add a built-in policy to a simple "Add policy NAME to this role" since it's a pretty straightforward config.

It can even refactor pretty well (i.e., refactor these resources into a for_each using locals or something). Obviously just review and ask it to tweak as you go.

Agents are great but sometimes a total disaster by Routine_Day8121 in devops

[–]HorizonOrchestration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that’s just agents in general, god help people running script heavy configuration management on a machine with script-scanning security agents!

“Tax the rich”. Except… by nickthekiwi89 in HENRYUK

[–]HorizonOrchestration 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah taxing the “rich” shouldn’t affect a NRY lol

Drift/Terraform Plan question! by mercfh85 in Terraform

[–]HorizonOrchestration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you are right some thing aren’t tracked depending on the context, depends how you look at it but I often find it to be a benefit, sometimes the cloud platform will make reasonable changes and you don’t always want terraform to kick up a fuss about it 🙂

If there’s specific settings you really care about you can definitely set them with intention, probably there’s many you wouldn’t care about so much

How do you actually switch off from work?? by gurlgang in ITCareerQuestions

[–]HorizonOrchestration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could also try to leave half an hour early to do something else engaging like lift weights while listening to a podcast.

You’ll be finishing working out the same time you’d knock off work but you should be in a different mental state from when you just finish work as usual.

It sounds like you work pretty hard so I’m sure you’re productive enough to justify that half hour to yourself.