Question: Rolling this into a Lambda

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Question: Rolling this into a Lambda

armenr opened this issue 5 years ago · 7 comments

Thank you for all of your fantastic work! This is one of my absolute favorite things about ASGs in AWS. I didn't want to opt out of Terraform/Pulumi and into CloudFormation or Ruby Sparkleformation just for the sake of benefitting from the autorolling feature.

The other alternative was to create a cloudformation template just for the ASG, rendered through Pulumi, then go down that terrible rabbithole.

You've made something that others - like me - needed. Thank you! :)

If I fork this away and work on turning into a Lambda a-la Lambda Layers, would you want me to open a PR back to you, or you'd prefer not to consider an implementation like that?

Answer 1 · 2019-09-13T13:23:29.000Z

I’d love it, thank you. Multiple methods of deployment. The particular seed use case was a client on kubernetes. More than happy to have it as a lambda option.

Answer 2 · 2019-09-13T13:25:42.000Z

I understand that in its current form, it's sitting as a running service, steadily listening. I was thinking of the convenience factor and the value case for having it run ad-hoc, on some ASG notification via SNS.

With what you've got in the repo already, it appears mostly trivial to extend it as such (possibly a famous last words statement), but I figured I'd check with you - the author, to make sure my estimation is accurate.

Thanks again! :)

Answer 3 · 2019-09-13T13:28:55.000Z

Five most dangerous words and engineer can say, “how hard could it be?” :-)

Answer 4 · 2019-09-13T13:49:04.000Z

Roger that. If I've learned anything in my 11 years, it's to always do the hardest stuff first, and never commit work or time on estimations of "ease" :)

Any way to communicate short-cycle, in case of questions?

Answer 5 · 2019-09-13T13:58:51.000Z

LOL!

Any way to communicate short-cycle, in case of questions?

My travel schedule doesn't always allow short-cycle; being on a plane often precludes it. You can try on Slack, though. I am on the Kubernetes slack, Docker slack, Gophers slack, LFEdge slack, and even the databacker slack.

Answer 6 · 2020-05-06T08:04:12.000Z

Hi @armenr,
Your idea of having having it run ad-hoc on Lambda sounds good 👍
Did you manage to get it working so far? Do you have anything what you can share? Thank you!

Answer 7 · 2020-05-10T11:43:49.000Z

Did you get anywhere?

One of the nice things about the growth of go over the last few years was the ease with which this was made into a single binary, easily built for multiple platforms. So running this on Lambda should be straightforward.