Author: nedbellavance

HashiCorp Boundary Dev Error on Windows

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This is going to be a quick one. You’ve probably already heard about HashiCorp’s new Boundary project announced at HashiConf. If not, you can check out my YouTube video all about it.

When I tried to fire up the dev instance to take Boundary for a test drive, I immediately got an unpleasant error:

Error creating dev database container: unable to start dev database with dialect postgres: could not start resource: : Post "http://localhost:2375/images/create?fromImage=postgres&tag=12": dial tcp [::1]:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

I learned two things quickly:

  1. The dev server for Boundary uses Docker
  2. Boundary was having trouble talking to my install of Docker Desktop

If you’re in a similar boat, the fix is super easy! Open up the settings for Docker Desktop and tick this box:

Then click Apply & Restart. That’s it.

Told you it was easy! Have fun playing with Boundary! I know I will.

Use HashiCorp Vault AWS engine with multiple accounts

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I received a question recently on how to properly configure the AWS secrets engine on HashiCorp Vault to work with multiple AWS accounts. It took me a bit, but I did figure out how to do it and what the limitations are. In this post, I will break down how the secrets engine works and how to use it to dynamically create credentials across multiple AWS accounts using the assume_role feature.

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Ned in the Cloud – First Year Review

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One year ago I decided to quit my consulting job at a respectable company and go rogue as the Founder and sole employee of Ned in the Cloud LLC. I thought that now might be a good time to reflect on how I feel about that decision a year in, how things are going personally and financially, and where I see the company going in the future. Come with me friend on this introspective journey to examine the real-world of an independent content producer.

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Mysterious missing “region” argument in Terraform

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I’m working on my next course for Pluralsight, Implementing Terraform on AWS. I probably don’t need to explain what the course is about. Anyhow, I was trying to show how you can create multiple instances of an AWS provider using the alias argument. Running through the initialization and validation process I ran into an error that was not very helpful.

Error: Missing required argument

The argument "region" is required, but was not set.

No mention of what line the error occurred on, or what resource in the configuration was throwing it. Just a missing region argument. Let’s see what’s going on here.

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The Terraform Certified Study Guide

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As I mentioned in a previous post, HashiCorp has officially announced the availability of two certifications, Terraform Certified Associate and Vault Certified Associate. In that post I detailed a bunch of different resources to help you study for the Terraform exam. One of those resources was a study guide that Adin Ermie and I put together called the HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate Preparation Guide, which does not lend itself well to an acronym – HTCAPG? I guess we could go with Hat Cap? Nah. Anyway, I thought I would give you an idea of what is in the guide, and a free sample of a few pages.

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