There’s many Dynamic DNS clients; some support Route53. All of them seem to have a bunch of dependencies or be platform specific. Go is really good for this, so why not cook something up really quick?

So. I am using Terraform to generate a bunch of users and wanted to modularize it as much as possible. I wanted to get to a point where I could provide a set of aws_iam_user objects and aws_iam_user_policy_attachments and have the module cleanly handle this.

So; chef windows bootstrap doesnt have an install as service option. Dang it; that would be too convenient. Even the official docs dont say anything about it..

Super quick post, but one I wanted to throw down - here’s how to get Visual Studio Code working for the ChefDK in Windows; and I’ll also share my Visual Studio Code preferences file!

NOTE 11/25/2020: This post is very, very out of date. This is all WSL1. WSL completely revamps and fixes this approach and makes this entire post obsolute. Do not follow the directions below in 2020+

Quickest post yet; but maybe it will help someone! Because the WSL allows you to call Windows binaries from the Linux system, there’s a quick trick for paths that I’ve run into.

As I continue to experiment with my chef environment, I’ve run into an interesting limitation with the dsc_script resource.

Hey guys; as I mentioned - I wanted to come back to run through the workflow I have setup for this blog, CI, and source control!

So previously discussed cmder before.

However, with the newest releace of Cmder there were some file structure changes that were made that need to be updated for fixing the lambda.

Over the holiday weekend I’ve made some major changes to this blog! Retroactive apology to anyone who had bookmarked anything on this site!

DSC is truly one of my favorite things to come out of the PowerShell team to date. The power for idempotent infrastructure and deployment is great. However, one relatively minor roadblock is getting an MOF delivery pipeline in place for getting the MOF configurations to a pull server.