Moving to saml2aws

For the last few years I have been using Segment.io’s aws-okta to do command-line authentication to my AWS environments. The other day I was helping a coworker get setup when I found out that develoment and maintenance for the tool...

Fixing a Broken Virtualenv

For the last few years, I have been using Ansible to configure my Macbook Pro. One of the things that my playbook does when it is run is update my homebrew installed applications. While this helps to ensure that I’m...

Sticking with PyCharm

I mentioned back in December that my PyCharm subscription was coming up for renewal in early January and that I was going to give VS Code an honest try. I had planned to use the whole month to evaluate the...

Using Cloudformation with Terraform

For the last few years, we have been hosting our Jira and Confluence instances with a third party (there are some things we do that are not supported in the SaaS versions). We recently decided to upgrade them to their...

Happy New Year

Another year has come to a close, and I’m looking forward to the challenges that the next year brings. Happy New Year.