Sns

Background In the last post, I documented an approach to fan-out GitHub repository updates to AWS services using API Gateway, Lambda, and SNS. In my conclusion, I wrote: The whole time I was building and testing this, I kept thinking to myself, “I must be overlooking a more obvious solution.” I’ve asked around, and it seems that others have also run into this issue, but ended up using a different approach that didn’t involve authorization. If you know of a better/different solution, please reach out! ...

Motivation and Design I have a bunch of “audit scripts” that run against the network configurations (and other data sources, such as DNS and DHCP) to check for common problems, mistakes, and inconsistencies. They run on a centralized server that periodically fetches the latest data from all these sources, runs the scripts, and emails about any discrepancies. This data sources are kept in git repositories, either updated by operations staff, or automatically. In the case of networking gear, by a tool called RANCID that collects the text configuration and output of many useful “show” commands and pushes any changes a git repository for the role/group of the device. ...