I did this for an EC2 Client VPN Endpoint and certificate based authentication in a continuous integration environment. It might also be suitable for localhost certificates and is pretty much what Minica or Easy RSA does. But I do a lot of infrastructure work with Terraform, so here we are. Another important note: AWS has… Continue reading Create Your Own Certificate Authority with Terraform
Category: Terraform
Using Structs in Custom Terraform Provider Data Sources
At PMG we maintain a custom terraform provider that talks to a few of our internal, platform APIs. APIs can change and evolve, and without a layer in between the API responses and terraform data sourcess, a custom TF provider can break when the API changes. I know this because I naïvely did this exact… Continue reading Using Structs in Custom Terraform Provider Data Sources
How to Create New Autoscaling Groups on Lauch Configuration Change
Updating an auto scaling group's (ASG) launch config exposes a little quirk: the old instances are not automatically taken out of service. Sometimes that's not a bad thing. Running a distributed database in an ASG would make taking old instances out of service all at once a bad idea. Other times removing the old servers… Continue reading How to Create New Autoscaling Groups on Lauch Configuration Change
Christopher Davis 