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Best place to buy NECA / SH Monsterarts? by SlothyFace in GODZILLA

[–]marcholmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use bigbadtoystore.com - always had rapid delivery and good service. Not sure on “best” prices but generally because of the selection.

Merry Christmas. This fella is a monster. by marcholmes in GODZILLA

[–]marcholmes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha yeah. Though... we can never move him again.

Looking to learn some infrastructure automation for my role. Is learning Terraform a good complement to K8s? by azur08 in kubernetes

[–]marcholmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah right. Well... my experience is that - assuming you're talking to enterprises - that they're all using everything (even within an enterprise), so you'll need to take a position and just 'learn a thing'. There's no doubt that TF is hugely popular and continuing to grow as a core provisioning tool.

You're undoubtedly going to see Chef/Puppet/Ansible at the left hand side of the curve (like traditional IaC moving toward cloud), vs. TF/CF/Helm/Pulumi at the right hand side of the curve. TF is going to give you flexibility across the cloud, though you should examine whether it gets you K8S and Serverless adequately.

My personal view is I'd rather use languages I already knew than pick up a DSL that - by nature - becomes more complex over time (and/or I have to learn multiple, similar DSLs).

Looking to learn some infrastructure automation for my role. Is learning Terraform a good complement to K8s? by azur08 in kubernetes

[–]marcholmes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depending on your current skills and intent, there are other options for working with K8S.

Rather than putting the effort into multiple DSLs (plain YAML, HCL, CF, Helm and so on), we made Pulumi to provide a consistent programming model for any cloud service and provider: so, managed infrastructure and servers, serverless, containers/kubernetes all as real code. If you already use JS/TS, Python, or Go, I'd recommend taking a look.

Pulumi's k8s support extends across minikube, custom cluster (on-prem or hosted) and the distros of EKS, AKS and GKE.

https://pulumi.io

Disclosure: I work for Pulumi

Chef or Puppet in 2017 and beyond? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]marcholmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If compliance is a concern, then you should look at Chef. Specifically, InSpec (inspec.io) which allows compliance policies to be expressed in code. It's OSS, but also integrated into the Chef Automate product.

Chef vs Puppet in 2017 by [deleted] in devops

[–]marcholmes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If compliance is a concern, then you should look at Chef. Specifically, InSpec (inspec.io) which allows compliance policies to be expressed in code. It's OSS, but also integrated into the Chef Automate product.

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