joseph

12 dni temudiscuss

https://cloudboss.co/docs/unobin

My original idea for this was to compile an Ansible-like playbook to a binary. I made a POC for it around 2020, and then it sat on the shelf. More recently I picked it up again following a more Terraform-like model. It compiles IaC to a binary with all dependencies included, standardized CLI options, autogenerated configs, optional visualization in the browser, and lots of other features.

To people who say just use Terraform: I do, a lot. But it still bothers me enough to try building something different.

joseph

22 dni temudiscuss

I haven't used Pulumi heavily, but unobin code has its own syntax more similar to terraform that compiles to Go. You can drop into Go for writing libraries however.

joseph

22 dni temudiscuss

I haven't gotten around to it yet, but it's on my TODO list to add an embedded mode so a "factory" can be imported as just another library in a Go program. As of now, it compiles to a standalone binary with the same CLI options as every other factory, so there is a uniform interface.

joseph

2 miesiące temudiscuss

  Location: Atlanta, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rust, Zig, any CI/CD system. AWS and GCP.
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/142HbgfYmFBUdfbKKzPvEgYC1jdFiKEvTMp67EhOxm0M
  Email: [email protected]

Hi, I'm Joseph. I have a special love for the cloud and infrastructure as code. I have 20 years experience doing development, systems engineering, DevOps, and data engineering. I've worked with companies to greatly improve uptime and profits and get their processes under control. I've worked in heavily regulated environments and helped companies prepare for major audits and become certified in frameworks like HITRUST and FedRamp.

I'm currently working on a "better Terraform" called unobin. https://github.com/cloudboss/unobin

joseph

2 miesiące temudiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Atlanta, GA | Remote Hi, I'm Joseph. I have a special love for the cloud and infrastructure as code. I have 20 years experience doing development, systems engineering, DevOps, and data engineering. I've worked with companies to greatly improve uptime and profits and get their processes under control. I've worked in heavily regulated environments and helped companies prepare for major audits and become certified in frameworks like HITRUST and FedRamp.

I'm currently working on a "better Terraform" called unobin. https://github.com/cloudboss/unobin

My tech stack is largely Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rust, Zig, any CI/CD system. AWS and GCP.

Website: https://cloudboss.co

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

joseph

2 miesiące temudiscuss

Sometimes I do this if I want to cherry pick commits from another repo already on my machine. Add the other repo as a local remote and then I can "import" that code while keeping its history in the new repo.

joseph

2 miesiące temudiscuss

I haven't used the Framework 12, but I got a Framework 13. It really is modular and easy to repair, and they give great instructions and all the tools you need. For example, I dropped mine and bent the screen while carrying it. I ordered a new screen and when it arrived, it took maybe 15 minutes to replace. But the reason I dropped the laptop was because the hinge really sucked. It swings freely. So as I was carrying it, it suddenly swung wide open and threw off my balance.

The caps lock key, which I remapped to control, got a crack in it because I use it a lot. Worst of all, it doesn't stay pressed, depending on its mood. So maybe I'm pressing ctrl-a to get to the beginning of a line and it decides to type the letter a instead.

I really wanted to like it, but alas, the quality was too bad and I won't buy another one.

joseph

3 miesiące temudiscuss

  Location: Atlanta, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rust, Zig, any CI/CD system. AWS and GCP.
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/142HbgfYmFBUdfbKKzPvEgYC1jdFiKEvTMp67EhOxm0M
  Email: [email protected]

joseph

3 miesiące temudiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Atlanta, GA | Remote

Hi, I'm Joseph. I have a special love for the cloud and infrastructure as code. I have 20 years experience doing development, systems engineering, DevOps, and data engineering. I've worked with companies to greatly improve uptime and profits and get their processes under control. I've worked in heavily regulated environments and helped companies prepare for major audits and become certified in frameworks like HITRUST and FedRamp.

My tech stack is largely Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rust, Zig, any CI/CD system. AWS and GCP.

Website: https://cloudboss.co

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

joseph

w zeszłym rokudiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Remote

I have 20 years of experience in software development, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD. These days I mostly write Go or Python, but I’ve worked in a range of languages as needed.

Strong Linux background (and other Unixes), AWS experience going back to the early days (when the CLI was a JAR), with time spent in GCP and Azure as well.

Open to interesting problems and even boring ones too, especially if they touch infra, automation, or systems engineering.

GitHub: https://github.com/cloudboss, https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

joseph

w zeszłym rokudiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Remote

I have 20 years of experience in development, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD. I'm a polyglot but nowadays I default to Go. Most of my time is spent on Linux and I have experience with other Unixes as well. I've been an AWS customer since 2006, when the cli was still an executable jar, and I have experience in GCP and Azure.

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

joseph

2 lata temudiscuss

I've been working on https://github.com/cloudboss/easyto, a tool that converts docker images to EC2 AMIs.

I've also written some Terraform modules that deploy machines from images created with easyto.

One is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/airport/aws, for managing Concourse CI.

Another is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/tailscale-su..., to quickly spin up a tailscale instance in a VPC.

joseph

2 lata temudiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Remote

I specialize in infrastructure automation and Kubernetes. I'm a polyglot but nowadays I default to Go. Most of my time is spent on Linux and I have experience with other Unixes as well. I've been an AWS customer since 2006 and have experience in GCP.

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

joseph

3 lata temudiscuss

This is kind of a problem with non-paid support I think. I had an AWS account with some credits that were going to expire and decided to use them to spin up a bare metal instance. My account was immediately flagged and I got locked out. I finally managed to reach someone who made me jump through hoops changing my password and rotating my API keys. It still took a few days before I was able to log in again, and by then my credits were expired. Luckily I wasn't doing anything important in my account, but someone running a business would have been screwed.

joseph

3 lata temudiscuss

It's not that. We don't want to switch shell syntax between workstation and server, for example. The fish users I've known moved very slowly when they had to hop on a server, or build a new container image where it involved a 'docker run' into the shell to test it out. If you know bash or sh well enough to do those things quickly then there is no incentive to use fish.

joseph

3 lata temudiscuss

I use bash and also have no patience for configuring tooling. Your fish dotfiles are more complicated than my bash ones. I used to work on a team where many of the other engineers used fish. I never saw it doing anything I couldn't do in bash, although it looked a little fancier. But the annoying thing was when they asked me for help, and none of the commands I gave them worked in fish. It made for very slow troubleshooting sessions.

joseph

3 lata temudiscuss

How often is common to you? I've seen it happen plenty, and not just with Python. Even Go, which has a reputation for maintaining backwards compatibility, had bugs that caused breakage on patch releases during the go.mod transition. Even if breakage happens rarely, when it does happen it causes unplanned work. I'd rather be deliberate in when I choose to upgrade so I can plan for issues.

joseph

3 lata temudiscuss

I've had Python code break a number of times when moving between 3.x minor releases. For a distro like CoreOS that is single purpose and intentionally kept minimal, I can see the value in a rolling release. For a traditional OS though, I do not want to be forced to spend my day fixing stuff because an update ran last night. Choosing when to change language and dependency versions is a feature.

joseph

3 lata temudiscuss

I have a small amount of experience making cheese, and have only made it with pasteurized milk as it is not easy to find raw milk where I live. However, in the US at least, there is both pasteurized and ultra pasteurized milk. Pasteurized uses a lower temperature for a longer period than ultra pasteurized. The vast majority of milk in the US is ultra pasteurized. My understanding from reading articles on cheesemaking is you can't really use it to make cheese as the curd doesn't develop correctly. While I haven't made cheese with raw milk, there is no doubt it tastes better than processed milk. I know because I worked on a dairy farm when I was young, and used to drink it practically straight from the cow. I did get sick once though, so it's an actual risk.

joseph

3 lata temudiscuss

> Always talk about a second application. For each abstraction, the “app” is the layer above it. For example, a filesystem is an app for a block device; TCP is an app for IP. You should be able to describe the functionality of a layer without ever referring to the specifics of the app (e.g., you don’t need to know what a file is when talking about an SSD’s internals).

This is so true. It’s very common to see infrastructure being built in terms of the application that will run on it instead of designing the application to run on the infrastructure. A lot of brittle, unmodifiable messes are the result of this.

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