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Cross-region & cross-account AWS resources Terraform planning

By Joris Berthelot Published September 30th 2020 Tagged terraform, amazon aws, aws, aws ecs, deployment, work, trick, sys-admin, server, s3, protip, howto, hint, devops, development, code, english, infrastructure, cloud, cloud computing

Hey, it's been a while, right?

Lately, I'm leading some big changes in our infrastrure since I'm wrapping a Blue/Green deployment into another one. Uh?

Long story short: our product runs on AWS ECS Docker containers, and because we have one sub-domain per app instance, we use Apache wildcard sub-domains. Meaning a single container handles traffic from many clients/instances. We already have a Blue/Green deployment process in place but at the Docker container level, not at the client level. The idea is to entirely duplicate the whole stack (with all its flaws) and a sub-domain pointing to

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AWS ECS: seamlessly handle app versioning

By Joris Berthelot Published January 29th 2018 Tagged aws, amazon aws, docker, go, golang, versioning, ecs, container, aws ecs, semver, protip, cloudop, deployment, ci

Our latest project at work involved another Go API and in the effort of easing our debugging and issue tracking I'm used to inject the app version into the logs.
It helps a lot monitoring, especially when rolling out a new version (canary, 50% traffic deployment, etc.).

Preamble

Pre-2018, I hardcoded the version in an app constant which I would increment as part of my release process. It's easy, quick but the only issue is to not forget about it because you may lose versioning syncing over time.

Plus, considering this to be done before each new release, this adds

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