It's time for a brief rant about Microsoft Teams. Before we start I'll state that Teams is probably an ok platform for collaboration when you work for just one organization. But when you need to work with multiple organizations, each with their own Teams, you immediately run into a world of hurt. There are two […]
I recently checked the pricing model for Amazon Fargate to see if migrating a fair number of EC2 instance-based workloads to containers would save money. In theory this should have been the case, as a container has less "fat" compared to a full virtual machine. In this case the workload itself was perfectly suited for […]
I've noticed that some people - I won't reveal their names here to protect them - love using contain and/or ordering arrows in Puppet. A typical use-case is for role classes: class role::webserver { contain ::packetfilter::endpoint contain ::profile::monit contain ::profile::unixbase contain ::profile::ipa_client contain ::profile::webserver Class[::packetfilter::endpoint] -> Class[::profile::monit] -> Class[::profile::unixbase] -> Class[::profile::ipa_client] -> Class[::profile::webserver] } The […]
