Intro I’ve been doing a lot with terraform lately, and I’ve been looking for ways to make my terraform configurations a lot simpler and have less repetition. Like a lot of people, I’ve found myself repeating the same code over and over. An example is where I repeat the same resource over and over but with different configuration parameters. It’s essentially the same resource. Why should I do this? There has to be a better way....

Intro I recently discovered NGINX Unit - now there’s a disclaimer here as well - I work for the company that produces this software. I do think that it’s a very very cool piece of open source software, so it generally suits my ethos: Open Source Super cool software Extensible Makes my life as a developer easier It pretty much ticks all the boxes. What is it? This one is a little harder to answer....

Intro I have a side hobby where I try to create minimal container images. There are a number of reasons for this, but the primary one is because I’m a complete geek. Other reasons include: It’s a neatness thing There’s an engineering imperative in me to be minimalist I don’t like waste The process of creation helps me understand the technology a little better Smaller images are great for testing at scale Why The why I do this is mainly because it’s a hobby, but in this case, I started the ultra minimal container image build because someone I work with wanted to build a container for testing Istio latency at scale....