Jim Pick
@jimpick.com
It’s going to be harder on the budget to attend tech conferences in Europe
September 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s going to be harder on the budget to attend tech conferences in Europe
For sure. I went down there on a TN-1 back in 2000, and was actually on a H1-B for a year or so before I reversed. Can’t imagine making a $100,000 deposit…
September 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
For sure. I went down there on a TN-1 back in 2000, and was actually on a H1-B for a year or so before I reversed. Can’t imagine making a $100,000 deposit…
I do have a little bit of monitoring, but I never set up any alerting.
September 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I do have a little bit of monitoring, but I never set up any alerting.
So I don't trust OpenTofu using shared state stored on S3 now. It was just a temporary hack anyways ... it would be better if I had a custom script that just uses the AWS API to fetch the IP addresses. I've already got 90% of that there already.
September 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
So I don't trust OpenTofu using shared state stored on S3 now. It was just a temporary hack anyways ... it would be better if I had a custom script that just uses the AWS API to fetch the IP addresses. I've already got 90% of that there already.
I have no idea what happened, but somehow it forked the state, and deployed an additional instance (without the software configured) and pointed everything at that. I was very confused when I looked at the AWS console and found 2 spot instances.
September 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I have no idea what happened, but somehow it forked the state, and deployed an additional instance (without the software configured) and pointed everything at that. I was very confused when I looked at the AWS console and found 2 spot instances.
I have a process that runs on a cron interval that uses OpenTofu (Terraform fork) to update the ip addresses in the DNS when they change ... using the state stored in an S3 bucket (and DynamoDB).
September 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I have a process that runs on a cron interval that uses OpenTofu (Terraform fork) to update the ip addresses in the DNS when they change ... using the state stored in an S3 bucket (and DynamoDB).