Have you struggled with increasing complexity of managing and maintaining software configuration? Some time ago, I saw a reference to what was called the Configuration Complexity Clock. It describes phases in how the complexity of software configuration grows. This name originally came from a blog post by Mike Hadlow in 2012.
This is something we should know and think about before we end up in a bad, unmaintainable place.
Do you have a love/hate relationship with YAML or JSON for configurations?
Are your configurations getting messed up because of simple typos, or problems with white space, or confusion between strings and numbers?
Do you try to manage some templating solution on top of YAML?
Is it hard to manage complex overrides across multiple configuration files?
If any of these questions resonate with you, then this article may interest you!
Do you have a love/hate relationship with YAML or JSON for configurations?
Are your configurations getting messed up because of simple typos, or problems with white space, or confusion between strings and numbers?
Do you try to manage some templating solution on top of YAML?
Is it hard to manage complex overrides across multiple configuration files?
If any of these questions resonate with you, then this article may interest you!
In this article, we are continuing with building our AWS infrastructure, which is a container-based solution running in AWS Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS). Back in part 5, we set…
Have you, at least partially, adopted AWS CloudFormation to have better management of your Cloud Infrastructure?
Do you feel that your endeavours with CloudFormation get messy and cumbersome to handle?
Do you want to find a better way to handle cloud infrastructure better, without redoing all your work?
These articles are for you if you answer yes to most of the questions!