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11 Oct 2016 • 1 min read

How to create an RDS instance with Terraform

This post is part of our PostgreSQL series. Terraform's RDS support makes it easy to create a database instance. Here's a cheatsheet: resource "aws_db_instance" "mydb1" { allocated_storage = 256 # gigabytes backup_retention_period = 7 # in days db_subnet_group_name = "${var.rds_public_subnet_

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24 Feb 2016 • 1 min read

Antipattern: ECS + yum update

This is part of our antipatterns series. Ouch! With the recent bugs in ecs-agent 1.8.0, you may be trying to roll back to amzn-ami-2015.09.e or earlier to get a last-known-good ecs agent. If you have yum update in your userdata, however, it updates ecs-init and that,

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