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CJ Hewett

Node.js is faster than Go

…when you write bad code. A lesson in connection pooling, and not simply copying and pasting code you find on the internet.

3 min readApr 1, 2024

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CJ Hewett

Packaging Python requirements as an AWS Lambda Layer with Terraform

It can be easier to create a Lambda layer, and let Lambda functions consume the layer, than attempting to package libraries up with your…

3 min readNov 14, 2023

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Packaging Python requirements as an AWS Lambda Layer with Terraform

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CJ Hewett

Self-Hosting a Terraform Provider Registry with AWS S3 and CloudFront

Sometimes you need to host your own Terraform Provider, and want to do it privately, without the Terraform Registry. This can be done via…

12 min readNov 7, 2023

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Self-Hosting a Terraform Provider Registry with AWS S3 and CloudFront

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CJ Hewett

Using Terraform workspaces with an AWS S3 backend

Terraform workspaces simplify having multiple environments with the same backend. They also improve developer experience by making it…

4 min readOct 30, 2023

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Using Terraform workspaces with an AWS S3 backend

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CJ Hewett

Automate versioning of Terraform with GitHub actions

Automate versioning of Terraform in a GitHub repo with the use of GitHub Actions and Semantic Release. GitHub Actions will automate the…

4 min readOct 19, 2023

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Automate versioning of Terraform with GitHub actions

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CJ Hewett

Ingest EKS Fargate metrics to AWS Container Insights using ADOT with Helm

The following link shows how to deploy the ADOT Collector to EKS Fargate that enables the collection of Container Insights metrics from EKS…

3 min readJun 14, 2023

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Ingest EKS Fargate metrics to AWS Container Insights using ADOT with Helm

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CJ Hewett

Building Docker images in GitHub Actions to be used by other workflows

In this post, I’ll go over how to use a GitHub Action to build and push a runner image to GitHub Packages, and then use said runner image…

3 min readFeb 21, 2023

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Building Docker images in GitHub Actions to be used by other workflows

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CJ Hewett

Configure Docker to use a proxy server in Jenkins

…by using Docker in Docker.

1 min readJan 21, 2023

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Configure Docker to use a proxy server in Jenkins

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CJ Hewett

Using Templates in Terraform to generate Kubernetes YAML

The tricky thing with YAML files in Kubernetes, is that it’s not so easy to use variables within the files to inject values into them…

4 min readDec 9, 2022

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Using Templates in Terraform to generate Kubernetes YAML

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CJ Hewett

Getting Docker in Docker with Rootless to run

I’ve found that when trying to run the docker-in-docker image with rootless, I get the following error:

1 min readSep 26, 2022

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Getting Docker in Docker with Rootless to run

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CJ Hewett

CJ Hewett

🛹 Skateboarder. 🏂 Snowboarder. 🏄 Websurfer. I write monthly* about Cloud/DevOps/IoT. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer and Terraform Associate

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