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Terraform - The Missing Manual

Infrastructure-as-Code is a principal that drives modern DevOps practice. I discuss the current state of Terraform and provide some basic guidelines/principles regarding how to structure it's usage for your project.

Tables of Contents

• Rationale
• Background
• Terraform Documentation Gotcha's

dinvlad

/* This script auto-generates a Google OAuth token from a Service Account key,
 * and stores that token in accessToken variable in Postman.
 *
 * Prior to invoking it, please paste the contents of the key JSON
 * into serviceAccountKey variable in a Postman environment.
 *
 * Then, paste the script into the "Pre-request Script" section
 * of a Postman request or collection.
 *
 * The script will cache and reuse the token until it's within

Cediddi

import textwrap
from sqlalchemy.ext.compiler import compiles
from sqlalchemy.sql.ddl import CreateTable


@compiles(CreateTable, "postgresql")
def pg10_partition_compiler(element, compiler, **kw):
    """
    Simple helper that enables Postgresql 10's declarative partitioning features.
        partition_by : str = Plain sql string that defines partition rules for the parent table.

sgreben

apk

apk-tools 2.8.2, compiled for x86_64.

usage: apk COMMAND [-h|--help] [-p|--root DIR] [-X|--repository REPO] [-q|--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [-i|--interactive] [-V|--version] [-f|--force]
           [--force-binary-stdout] [--force-broken-world] [--force-non-repository] [--force-old-apk] [--force-overwrite] [--force-refresh] [-U|--update-cache]
           [--progress] [--progress-fd FD] [--no-progress] [--purge] [--allow-untrusted] [--wait TIME] [--keys-dir KEYSDIR] [--repositories-file REPOFILE]
           [--no-network] [--no-cache] [--cache-dir CACHEDIR] [--arch ARCH] [--print-arch] [ARGS]...

matthewrudy

# frozen_string_literal: true
namespace :db do
  namespace :structure do

    STRUCTURE_PATH = 'db/structure.sql'

    def clean_structure_file
      original = File.read(STRUCTURE_PATH)
      cleaned = original.dup

lukeplausin

# Count total EBS based storage in AWS
aws ec2 describe-volumes | jq "[.Volumes[].Size] | add"
# Count total EBS storage with a tag filter
aws ec2 describe-volumes --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=CloudEndure Volume qjenc" | jq "[.Volumes[].Size] | add"
# Describe instances concisely
aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | {InstanceId: .InstanceId, State: .State, SubnetId: .SubnetId, VpcId: .VpcId, Name: (.Tags[]|select(.Key=="Name")|.Value)}]'
# Wait until $instance_id is running and then immediately stop it again
aws ec2 wait instance-running --instance-id $instance_id && aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-id $instance_id

# Get 10th instance in the account

lukebussey

cd /Library/Preferences
sudo rm com.sophos.sav.plist

cd /Library/Application\ Support/Sophos/cloud/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/
sudo ./InstallationDeployer —force_remove

Integralist

curl --header 'Authorization: token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE' \
     --header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' \
     --remote-name \
     --location https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/contents/path

# Example...

TOKEN="INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE"
OWNER="BBC-News"
REPO="responsive-news"

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real