| 20 Feb 2025 |
 @adam:robins.wtf | * It took me longer to upload due to my internet connection, but once the snapshot is uploaded, then registering it as an AMI is almost instant. | 13:54:27 |
| @adam:robins.wtf | hmm, but that snapshot doesn't seem to work for launching instances. likely i did something wrong :/ | 15:01:49 |
| @adam:robins.wtf | I'm extending the timeout for our use, since a snapshot is still imported even if the waiter times out. But re-running upload-ami will initiate another import-snapshot, ignoring the already imported one | 15:25:30 |
| 22 Feb 2025 |
 Arian | Oh you need to coldsnap over a raw image | 11:01:35 |
| Arian | You're probably coldsnapping the sparse VHD lol | 11:01:49 |
| Arian | Which will not work | 11:01:52 |
| Arian | That's why it shows up as smaller | 11:02:12 |
| Arian | So build the image with format = raw | 11:02:38 |
| Arian | And then upload | 11:02:40 |
| Arian | * That's why it shows up as smaller. You cant upload vhd format. You need to upload the raw block devices bytes. | 11:03:30 |
| @adam:robins.wtf | That makes complete sense. Thanks | 12:59:51 |
| 24 Feb 2025 |
 commiterate | Arian did you get around to trying the fluent-bit PR? | 17:30:44 |
| Arian | It's been on my backlog. Work was really packed the past few weeks. But I'll get to it as we need the changes internally | 19:12:57 |
| 27 Feb 2025 |
|  drewhaven joined the room. | 20:06:37 |
| drewhaven | Redacted or Malformed Event | 20:10:30 |
| drewhaven | Does SSM work will with on-prem NixOS installs? I'm looking to set up a bunch of headless NUCs that are deployed to a bunch of different locations. I want the predictability of Nix configs and flakes, but I'm not sure how the remote management will work. SSM seems to imply that it wants a mutable system to manage, but I guess that's just handled with some scripts that use Nix tools for changes, upgrades and rollbacks? | 20:21:51 |
| drewhaven | * Does SSM work well with on-prem NixOS installs? I'm looking to set up a bunch of headless NUCs that are deployed to a bunch of different locations. I want the predictability of Nix configs and flakes, but I'm not sure how the remote management will work. SSM seems to imply that it wants a mutable system to manage, but I guess that's just handled with some scripts that use Nix tools for changes, upgrades and rollbacks? | 20:21:59 |
| Arian | I have never tried it but I see no reason why it wouldn’t work | 20:40:10 |
| Arian | it might need some changes to the nixos module to support the on-prem ssm join token stuff | 20:40:38 |
| Arian | We (mercury.com) are about to open source some terraform modules that we use for deploying NixOS using SSM | 20:41:06 |
| Arian | we basically have an SSM Document that does a nixos-rebuild switch | 20:41:23 |
| Arian | i can probably get that published tomorrow | 20:42:25 |
|  pykee03 joined the room. | 21:24:49 |
| drewhaven | This'll be a new type of deployment for me. I'm used to k8s clusters where it's easy to just start new stuff. Been decades since I had to manage an actual system. :D | 23:22:44 |
| Arian | Why do you wanna use AWS SSM though? Do you have other AWS infra to integrate with? | 23:25:09 |
| Arian | It's only kind of worth it if you have other AWS infra. Otherwise I'd just use ssh :") | 23:25:30 |
| drewhaven | We have a decent amount of AWS stuff for our cloud stuff, though we aren't super heavy on all their infra services. | 23:26:43 |
| drewhaven | Just lots of S3, some k8s clusters, a few important ec2 instances. | 23:27:08 |
| drewhaven | Probably the main thing is that we already have the access controls set up. | 23:27:27 |
| drewhaven | A former SRE was going to use it for this, but never got around to it. Now I'm taking a crack at it. | 23:28:02 |
