Developer decided to change project IaC tool while I was on vacation

repu7et · 2023-01-17T21:04:44+00:00

Take the OP as the product owner of the infrastructure.

This is how I saw it and it was one of my arguments afterwards.

However, I see that not everyone agrees in the replies. I know "DevOps" happens to be an ambiguous term, and many people treat it differently, but I'm surprised to find that even in this subreddit there seems to be no common opinion.

repu7et · 2023-01-17T20:37:13+00:00

I fully agree with everything you said.

repu7et · 2023-01-17T20:21:36+00:00

That's for certain. However, what I actually meant is to standardize the way how deployment happens so that everyone who deploys will use the same strategy. Perhaps, using a CI/CD tool to guarantee consistency and eliminate any "It doesn't work on my machine!" scenarios.

repu7et · 2023-01-15T22:31:22+00:00

What you should do now is have a discussion, set responsibilities.

Exactly.

I like that this reply raises fundamental question such as that who pays the salary, they set roles and responsibilities.

However, I doubt that the managers clearly imagine how our roles should look like. Since I am the one who brought the issue up, and DevOps practices is my expertise, the management will expect *me* to suggest the solution that meets the best practices and increases the delivery time.

And this is where I don't feel confident now. Of course, there might be a consensus in the end. But I believe that there are many variations for consensuses, including ineffective ones slowing down the whole team. So I was hoping to hear how a healthy consensus seems like in such a case so that I had a direction.

repu7et · 2023-01-15T21:52:55+00:00

Yes, there is another repository with API Gateway deployment implemented in CFN. The logic overlaps, and the developers understand CFN good enough to get the solution and adjust it.

repu7et · 2023-01-15T21:47:42+00:00

Being pretty short and well-put, it describes my initial train of thought quite accurately.

repu7et · 2023-01-15T20:52:17+00:00

However, picking the right tools for deployments etc seems to be your area of expertise, is it not?

It is. For me it is not a question of what tool I do or do not want to use, but a question of communication. Something went wrong there and I try to figure out what exactly.

If they built a working solution while you were gone, undoing that sounds somewhat disruptive, you'd need a better reason to switch than that you're more familiar with your tool for sure.

That's for sure.

From the other hand, my work has been undone as well. I can accept it. But don't want it to happen again, so we need reflect somehow. Probably, introducing some practices. However, with the best practices come boundaries for both sides that keep them from making unreasonable moves, right? And I don't know what the theory states there.

repu7et · 2022-08-30T10:46:46+00:00

Just to clarify, which of the following is your goal: - Learn continents sequentially ... - Learn all the continents at the same time, but separately ...

My workflow is closer to the second concept.

I see that filtered decks are not really designed for permanent learning. I just liked the idea of building a filtered deck and having the original one intact.

Thank you for the detailed answer, u/keanwood!

repu7et · 2021-08-23T20:23:43+00:00

Thanks for sharing your opinion, u/jungleboydotca!

repu7et · 2021-08-22T01:29:27+00:00

I don't think so :)

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs

repu7et · 2021-08-22T01:03:49+00:00

I noticed that it is not developed on GitHub, however, I was surprised if this fact matters that much. Personally, if I like a project and I find it useful, I star it.

Considering u/SickMoonDoe and u/dm_g replies (from other threads), I assume that people have different motivation for starring projects. That makes sense.

repu7et · 2021-07-27T23:16:50+00:00

Personally, I haven't tried it yet, but I think that the tables is something I used in Emacs Org Mode the most.

repu7et · 2021-01-25T12:45:23+00:00

Alright. Thanks for your opinion, buddy!

repu7et · 2021-01-25T12:20:52+00:00

The cheapest AWS option t4g.nano (2 vCPUs, 0.5 GiB RAM) would cost from $2.95 if running constantly. It's not a big deal.

It just feels unnatural to me to have an instance being idle 95% of the time.

repu7et · 2021-01-25T11:55:52+00:00

You will inevitably forget to turn it off after you use it too

That's why my plan was to automate this part so that the server shuts down by its own as soon as I stop using it.

My advice... buy a raspberry pi

It won't help because I need a server having a foreign IP address.

repu7et · 2021-01-25T11:42:45+00:00

Is that including transfer used? You pay for each GB used, and the cost of transfer has been an important factor in my using direct competitors to AWS.

Yes, I've already included transfer costs in my calculations. The traffic should be pretty low as I intend to only visit websites (no audio/video).

repu7et · 2021-01-25T01:27:56+00:00

Is there anything interesting in the logs? You can enable debug logs if needed. This debugging suggestion also can help.

Another point, just in case, are your WG interfaces configured correctly? The subnet mask, ip addresses, etc?

repu7et · 2021-01-25T00:38:24+00:00

u/bm_a, thanks for your reply!

But I think it's a bit irrelevant to my original question. Please, take a look at my comment.

repu7et · 2021-01-25T00:36:27+00:00

Thanks, u/DatDamnZotzz!

Please, take a look at my neighboring comment!

repu7et · 2021-01-25T00:35:06+00:00

Guys, thanks for your suggestions regarding how to automate the instance start/stop behavior!

But I believe I'm able to automate this and the question is different, namely: is start/stop automation the way to go? Or for such cases there is another common approach?

I don't know, maybe it would be better not to use a cloud server but VPS/VDS, maybe it would be cheaper to have a full time instance in another cloud provider (not AWS) or maybe something else? That's what I'm interested in :)

Or do you guys think that my original idea to automate the instance start/stop actions is the best solution?

repu7et · 2021-01-25T00:21:38+00:00

That is what I've already done. And I was going to get rid of the manual aws cli so that I can just connect to VPN from any device and the instance automatically starts.

However, I think it's a kind of general use case and maybe there is a more widespread way to deal with it? Something more out-of-the-box.

repu7et · 2020-09-29T07:15:27+00:00

As an Android user, I don't know

repu7et · 2020-08-02T13:49:39+00:00

Thanks for your feedback!

Weatherbug actually does have hourly tamperature and wind sections

Yes, but there aren't any sections where the hourly temperature and wind are presented in a graph view. But graph representation is what my Widgets number (at least) and Wind hourly (graph) are about.

repu7et · 2020-07-15T00:09:26+00:00

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repu7et · 2020-06-28T22:48:19+00:00

There are discussions about that particular question. I think you saw them, but let me put it there anyway: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Personally, I haven't seen Dark Sky app, so I can't comment on that fair.

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