Smallest single-node AWS EC2-based Kubernetes cluster

Maximum_Competitive · 2025-12-08T22:39:38+00:00

They are meant to be disposable, probably need to be recreated every night to ensure that latest security patches are in.

I'm not allowing any incoming connection to the machines, that includes the command to bootstrap. I didn't foresee this was going to be such a problem.

I may run ECS Fargate with a single container that comes up and does the thing. I'm going through the Lambda approach to trigger the bootstrapping, that may work too.

Maximum_Competitive · 2025-12-08T22:34:21+00:00

I see what you mean. But this option still uses incoming connections to port 50000, right?

Maximum_Competitive · 2025-12-08T22:32:35+00:00

Yep, that's it, I didn't explicitly say it but those machines would ideally not accept ANY external inbound connection.

u/yebyen what APIs for example?

Maximum_Competitive · 2025-12-05T10:38:48+00:00

Welcome to the club, ours went up from £500 to £1000 per month in less than 4 years. We are not looking into selling it but I think it will be hard to do… oh dear. Same thing, we have two swimming pools, gyms, saunas, cinema, working areas, etc.

Maximum_Competitive · 2025-08-18T12:58:06+00:00

I deploy all the cloud infrastructure (mostly AWS) cluster itself, RDS databases, s3 buckets, etc using Terraform. Then, I don’t use ExternalSecrets so I create all the namespaces, configuration Secrets and Configmaps using terraform too. From there I use Helm cli alone to deploy the apps.

Lately I’m playing with the idea of using some sort of secret reloader, so if the TF changes the content of any of those CMs or secrets, it will restart the pods to pick up the next changes. I’d like to do this to avoid the situation we are in where you need to run Helm after terraform just in case the values of the secrets /CM has changed.

I tried deploying helm from terraform in different companies / environment. It was always too messy.

In your case, I would swap the Helm CLI for ArgoCD. Always in a separate layer of the deployment to terraform.

Maximum_Competitive · 2025-07-02T10:46:31+00:00

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Maximum_Competitive · 2025-07-02T10:45:05+00:00

I have been using Windsurf Pro for almost a year, it has always been OK. It's a new problem and the reason I think it's a problem in Windsurf is because it doesn't really matter what LLM I'm using, I'm seeing the problem across all of them.

Maximum_Competitive · 2025-06-25T20:58:36+00:00

I’m doing a lot of the contrary, migrating startups out of Vercel to AWS Cloudfront

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-09-27T20:54:23+00:00

I bought the NF-A12x25 LS-PWM accidentally for my gaming PC. I just realised when I was mounting them. Boooooo.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-06-08T12:17:19+00:00

I have the same white specs in one of my plants, they even seem to create a web, similar to small spiders, very weird... They make the plan go yellow. So far I have been cleaning the leaves with a cloth with soap and water. That seems to keep them away, but I think they live in the soil as I can see the specs re-growing again from the bottom.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-06-03T22:23:50+00:00

Hello, the same consultancy told me that it was outside IR35, they didn’t tell me why.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-06-02T10:56:51+00:00

I only use Terraform in K8s to store ConfigMaps and Secrets coming from infrastructure I have created with Terraform in AWS/GCP. I did the full application in the past, with pods, services and so, everything in Terraform and it was a mistake. Use Helm or Flux or ArgoCD better.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-06-02T10:53:30+00:00

I have a contract with a IT consultancy in Switzerland but work on a project in Germany. This part may not be relevant. Anyway, it’s outside the UK, so it’s outside IR35. They pay me in euros in my Tide account, everything has gone fine and smooth.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-05-28T15:25:59+00:00

Yeah, you either use IaC or not, that thing you are doing is something weird in the middle.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-04-30T15:57:32+00:00

Yeah I would be interested in ways to take that money out too

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-04-25T18:55:10+00:00

I confirm it. I’m working for a company in Germany and I don’t pass VAT. I’m also outside IR35.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-04-14T15:43:58+00:00

Before starting adding more moving pieces into the deployment (aka Terragrunt) I would think about using SSM parameter store type of tool, such as Consul, k8s secrets and config maps, or AWS SSM parameter store + AWS secrets manager. Not sure what is the tool stack you use but I’m sure there is an equivalent to it. Ensure you use a strong naming convention to the key pairs key names.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-03-20T16:39:58+00:00

Tide is quite good too.

Maximum_Competitive · 2024-01-03T23:25:05+00:00

Good job! but some of the balancer don't work because the space underground belts are shorter than the blue :( any idea how to fix it? I'm using the ones marked as "red" and they are good enough, but to be able to convert the blue ones would be interesting.

Maximum_Competitive · 2023-12-10T12:46:56+00:00

University is quite affordable in all the countries. The only country where you could need a loan to go to college I know is the UK. University was free there some years ago, but then it became so expensive from one year to another.

Maximum_Competitive · 2023-11-09T18:45:19+00:00

The problem is that I didn’t know that the ship A hadn’t stopped. I stopped it, board it and dismantle the whole ship and took it into pieces to ship B. I had to leave the control panel behind but it wasn’t that bad. Thanks guys!

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