Richard Quadling rquadling

Terraform Diagnostics Display

As part of the upgrading from v3 to v4 of the Terraform AWS Provider, I needed to see all the places where I needed to do some work. The standard ouput from Terraform doesn't show all the places where work is required. But, luckily, using the -json option, you get access to all of the information.

The following shell script (written and tested in bash, but should be OK as really, it's only terraform, jq, column, and | that's being used) will output a nicely formatted table showing you the

My use case is to get the current desired capacity of an autoscaling group so that I can use that in the replacement autoscaling group. I've seen a Cloudformation solution, but that required more understanding than I have at the time.

Initially, I had thought that just returning the JSON from awscli would have been enough, but unfortunately, the result for the data_source.external.result is a list of strings. No numbers, arrays, maps, lists.

So inspired by a comment made by Marin Salinas, I found that Terraform can access local files!

In addition, I am using an assumed role to do the work.

ProMiReD

We needed a way to describe our pipeline deployment approach. How and when are things released. In what order do we modify the code and the database when it is not possible to do them all instantly.

And so we came up with this silly acronym. We know there are probably better approaches, but this has worked very well for us. To the point that our continuous integration and deployment pipelines can run all of these unattended, allowing our developers to develop and our reviewers to review and the poor release monkey can retire from running all those releases by hand.

Pro - Protect migrations

As migrations are developed and versioned using the current timestamp, and prior to Phinx 0.8, we needed to make sure that

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	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Check if arguments are provided (either tfvars files or default to terraform.tfvars)
	TFVARS_FILES=("$@") # Collect arguments into an array

	# If no arguments are provided, default to terraform.tfvars
	if [ ${#TFVARS_FILES[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
	TFVARS_FILES=("terraform.tfvars")
	fi

	amazon-ebs: TASK [aws_cloudwatch_logs : Install the AWS CloudWatch Logs daemon] ************
	amazon-ebs: task path: /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ebe8377-f9d0-f655-9be8-665b6e0204c8/roles/aws_cloudwatch_logs/tasks/install.yml:26
	amazon-ebs: changed: [127.0.0.1] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "python /tmp/awslogs-agent-setup.py -n -r eu-west-1 -c /tmp/awslogs.conf", "delta": "0:00:25.998340", "end": "2020-05-15 12:12:01.446602", "rc": 0, "start": "2020-05-15 12:11:35.448262", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "downloading AgentDependencies.tar.gz with urllib
	\u001b[0mAgentDependencies/
	AgentDependencies/awslogscli/
	AgentDependencies/awslogscli/urllib3-1.25.6.tar.gz
	AgentDependencies/awslogscli/jmespath-0.9.2.tar.gz
	AgentDependencies/awslogscli/colorama-0.3.7.zip
	AgentDependencies/awslogscli/idna-2.8.tar.gz
	AgentDependencies/awslogscli/awscli-1.11.41.tar.gz

	/**
	* Multibyte String Pad
	*
	* Functionally, the equivalent of the standard str_pad function, but is capable of successfully padding multibyte strings.
	*
	* @param string $input The string to be padded.
	* @param int $length The length of the resultant padded string.
	* @param string $padding The string to use as padding. Defaults to space.
	* @param int $padType The type of padding. Defaults to STR_PAD_RIGHT.
	* @param string $encoding The encoding to use, defaults to UTF-8.

	# An example Dockerfile to build a Bitnami PHP-FPM minimal container with xDebug and some other extensions installed.
	# Please note, I have cobbled this together from limited understanding as well as dissecting the Dockerfiles that
	# Bitnami have used.
	#
	# If you find problems, or suggestions, PLEASE PLEASE help me and the rest of the community with your comments,
	# suggestions, fixes, etc. Let's all learn something new!!!!
	#
	# If you want to contact me directly, then RQuadling at the Google Mail, and I'll be happy to answer any questions.

	'use strict';
	require('../../../bootstrap.js');
	require(rootPath + '/src/js/lib/Calculator.js');

	var calculatorDataProvider = {
	'Empty calculator': {
	amountDue: 0.00,
	amountTenderedAfterAmountDueSet: 0.00,
	changeGivenAfterAmountDueSet: 0.00,
	amountTendered: 0.00,

	MESSAGE="
	<table><thead><tr><td colspan=\"2\"><b>Build starting</b></td></tr></thead>
	<tbody>
	<tr><td><b>Tag</b></td><td>${build_tag}</td></tr>
	<tr><td><b>Built for</b></td><td>${built_for}</td></tr>
	<tr><td><b>Built by</b></td><td>${built_by}</td></tr>
	</tbody>
	</table>
	"
	curl -s -X POST \