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oarmstrong

8 mesi fadiscuss

I share your disdain for buzzwords but SRE is definitely a different role.

oarmstrong

anno scorsodiscuss

Ah got it, thanks. I thought you were testing the image somehow, a bit like inspec.

Still cool though, nice.

oarmstrong

anno scorsodiscuss

Could you tell me more about the playwright tests? From what I can see it's a web testing framework, I don't see how that fits in here.

oarmstrong

2 anni fadiscuss

> My CI server uses Firecracker VM's to isolate OCI containers

Is this something you built yourself? I've been looking for a CI tool that uses Firecracker but never found anything, I started building something myself but it never really got finished. Would love to drop that project and use something off the shelf.

oarmstrong

2 anni fadiscuss

Consul is built upon the Serf library. https://www.serf.io/intro/vs-consul.html

oarmstrong

2 anni fadiscuss

Yes, the article did.

oarmstrong

2 anni fadiscuss

Framework has open sourced the EC firmware, not the boot firmware. The UEFI implementation is still closed source proprietary InsydeH2O software.

oarmstrong

3 anni fadiscuss

Hashicorp's Vault works quite nicely. Teleport is another tool I believe handles this but haven't used it personally.

oarmstrong

3 anni fadiscuss

Right, running ECS on EC2, not Fargate on EC2. When ECS launched it only had the EC2 launch type (where as you said you must manage your machines). Fargate then came along for both ECS and EKS where Amazon managed the machines for you.

oarmstrong

3 anni fadiscuss

Fargate on EC2? Sorry you’ve lost me, I understood Fargate to be a layer of AWS managed compute for ECS or EKS deliberately instead of EC2.

oarmstrong

3 anni fadiscuss

I would imagine so the default behaviour could be identical across platforms.

oarmstrong

3 anni fadiscuss

I agree that it’s boring and works well. It’s also what I’m most worried about finding a reasonable alternative, we can’t just not update Vault.

Sadly Secrets Manager doesn’t hit all the features I need. Really hoping for an OpenTF-style fork of Vault.

oarmstrong

3 anni fadiscuss

What are you looking at for a Vault replacement?

oarmstrong

3 anni fadiscuss

Obviously it’s a different OS and possibly isn’t relevant to you but I’ve found solace in OpenBSD (and other BSDs) in the search of “simplicity” of “the old days”.