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Will Thames
Personal blog · willthames.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Will Thames's personal blog at willthames.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Managing Multiple AWS Consoles with Multi Account Containers”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a post on managing many AWS accounts. One commenter cites it for the point that SSO prevents having more than one account open in the same browser at once. Other comments are general Ansible and DevOps advice.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lessons from working and playing with things like AWS, Ansible, and others
Most-linked posts?
- Managing Multiple AWS Consoles with Multi Account Containers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-16
What Hacker News says?
> When using SSO, which we do, you cannot have more than one account open in the same browser at the same time. http://willthames.github.io/2018/02/28/managing-multiple-aws... You're welcome :)
Comment linking /2018/02/28/managing-multiple-aws-consoles-with-multi-account-containers.html
on “Have lots of AWS accounts”Submitted Managing Multiple AWS Consoles with Multi Account Containers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnsible is mostly configuration based - Ansible itself is written in python but all you'll typically need to write for most usages is configuration in YAML. So no ruby at all. There are likely existing roles for most things at http://galaxy.ansible.com/ The Ansible docs at http://docs.ansible.com/ are pretty good, and there are lots of getting started guides most weeks on the Ansible weekly mailing list ( https://de…
Comment linking /2014/04/02/modelling-credentials-configuration-in-ansible.html
on “Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails”Do you have an Operations function in your organisation? As really DevOps is development and operations working together to meet business goals. If you do have an Operations person, you should be working together on things like how you can improve the deployment process to make it easy for new software to get into production. If you don't have an Operations person, then you will have to bridge that gap. And that mea…
Comment linking /2014/08/10/devops-days-brisbane-talk.html
on “Ask HN: Where can I get Dev Ops training?”