AWS Step Function to Trigger GitHub Self-Hosted Runners
I literally lost hours of sleep trying to resolve an issue related to using an EventBridge Input Transformer to override an ECS container variable with a value sourced from an …
Simplifying GitHub Workflows with Matrix Configurations
I came across GitHub Actions matrix strategies during a failed attempt in trying to derive a self-hosted runner label from workflow environment variables. Below is a sample of the workflow …
GitHub REST API Call Returns Truncated Result-set
Large result-sets returned from calls to GitHub REST API endpoints may undergo truncation. For example, lets say a call to the list repositories endpoint is run for an organization hosting …
AWS Infrastructure Visualization with Cartography
Cartography is a Python-based infrastructure mining/visualization tool authored by Lyft. Supported platforms: https://github.com/lyft/cartography#supported-platforms This post covers the steps for running a local instance to analyze a single AWS account. Configure …
Multi-Architecture Image Builds using Packer and GitHub Self-Hosted Runners
Goals of this blog post: Prerequisite Knowledge Create Repository Webhook Repository Variables/Secrets Variables ECR_REPO ECR repository where ARM image will be uploaded to RUNNER_PREFIX Self-Hosted runner label prefix Secrets Sample …
Build ARM Images on x86_64/AMD64 Hosts using Packer
Host OS Details Docker Status The following command is meant more for the purposes of observation: A key point to note from the output is the absence of support for …