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infrastructure as code
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Design: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good showcase of AWS best practices
From 1 comment
Very nice. I didn't know about terraform, and seems like a very powerful combo... Can anyone comment as to the differences in functionality between ansible AWS playbooks and…
ivan_ah on HN
Timely and helpful for learning Terraform
From 1 comment
This is so timely for me! I was struggling to build a repeatable stack with CloudFormation, started down the road of Terraform just last night. This will help me skip a lot of…
beat on HN
Objections
AWS is expensive
From 1 comment
Thank you for sharing, simple and detailed. However I'd like to comment that AWS is not cheap.
diegorbaquero on HN
Terraform can take unexpected actions in production
From 1 comment
I don't disagree it has some "cool" features, but we've been bitten pretty hard in production when Terraform takes action that wasn't expected (and fell outside of what the plan…
toomuchtodo on HN
Requests
Details on secrets and credential handling
From 1 comment
One thing that I would have loved some more detail on is how are secrets and credentials being handled?
tekronis on HN
Estimated monthly cost for a dev setup
From 1 comment
If you were to set this up and leave it running (say for a dev environment), what would your monthly bill look like?
garysieling on HN
Questions
Why a NAT instance in each subnet
From 1 comment
Very nice. I didn't know about terraform, and seems like a very powerful combo... Can anyone comment as to the differences in functionality between ansible AWS playbooks and…
ivan_ah on HN
Terraform versus Ansible differences
From 1 comment
Very nice. I didn't know about terraform, and seems like a very powerful combo... Can anyone comment as to the differences in functionality between ansible AWS playbooks and…
ivan_ah on HN
Alternatives named
Terraform
From 1 comment
- NAT Instances are placed in each Subnet for High Availability. This way, if one Availability Zone goes down and it happens to be where your NAT Instance is located, you don't…
joshpadnick on HN
CloudFormation
From 2 comments
This is so timely for me! I was struggling to build a repeatable stack with CloudFormation, started down the road of Terraform just last night. This will help me skip a lot of…
beat on HNI believe you can use a Managed NAT Gateway now instead of NAT instances in each AZ for outbound VPC connectivity:…
toomuchtodo on HN
Ansible
From 1 comment
The biggest thing I've noticed is that terraform doesn't, out of the box, have any way of bringing in your existing resources, and sharing the [tfstate file] that has the current…
mikelinington on HN
DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
From 1 comment
We were exclusively on AWS, but now are distributed across Linode, DigitalOcean, and Vultr. We're saving a lot, and getting better performance.
mark-ruwt on HN