[HN Gopher] Dynamic Route53 records for AWS auto scaling groups ...
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       Dynamic Route53 records for AWS auto scaling groups with Terraform
        
       Author : traxmaxx
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2020-02-07 18:16 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | aequitas wrote:
       | I think AWS not having automatic hostnames for ASG instances is a
       | way to lure you into Lambda's, at least that's how I got hooked.
        
         | peterwwillis wrote:
         | Or a way to get you more familiar with tagging, or the various
         | queries and filters on different api results. It's annoying at
         | first, but it leads to less reliance on the console and more
         | effective scripting. (Instead of naming my instances I just
         | made a script which looks up the instance I want and outputs
         | the IP and username, and put that in an SSH config)
        
       | merlincorey wrote:
       | This is a pretty sweet Terraform module that I will personally be
       | testing out soon.
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       | I was curious what they are using for the Lambda function, and it
       | turns out is a framework-less Python script[0].
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       | One thing I'm not clear on yet is if using this will imply one
       | such lambda for every autoscaling group or not.
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/meltwater/terraform-aws-asg-dns-
       | handler/b...
        
         | spier wrote:
         | Great to hear! Please let us know how the testing goes!
        
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