CV and personal site of Andy Hunt
I learn a lot of different things from day to day. Often they're niche "oh that's neat" type things, and other times they're about an unexpected limitation in a service, or something that's surprised me about a technology I work with.
I'm trying to keep a log of those things here, if only for me.
Posted: Monday 17 May 2021 @ 14:14:20
Out of the box, Amazon EKS clusters do not have a CNI plugin installed, and cannot enforce network policies. You need to install a CNI plugin like Calico before they take effect.
Posted: Tuesday 06 April 2021 @ 15:15:28
When adding an alternate domain to an existing CloudFront distribution, AWS CloudFront checks for the existence of a CNAME DNS record.
Posted: Monday 29 March 2021 @ 11:11:57
When using AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, the default configuration does not support CoreDNS running on AWS Fargate.
Posted: Monday 22 March 2021 @ 15:15:34
The command line tool eksctl is a really good way to quickly get going with AWS EKS and AWS Fargate
Posted: Friday 05 March 2021 @ 16:16:26
It's possible to use git diff on arbitrary files
Posted: Thursday 04 March 2021 @ 12:12:55
If you have a Terraform input described as (a list of) complex objects, it's possible to validate the contents of those objects
Posted: Monday 01 March 2021 @ 13:13:37
AWS RDS for MySQL sets the default max_allowed_packet setting to 4mb, but sometimes that isn't large enough.
Posted: Tuesday 23 February 2021 @ 14:14:21
Go has a supported way of installing multiple versions of the language. With a small amount of work, you can easily manage multiple Go versions.
Posted: Sunday 21 February 2021 @ 16:16:51
Highlight.js and Statatmic 3's markdown parser use the same conventions for code fence class names, which makes Highlight.js able to highlight Statamic 3's markdown output