The space

The meetup was at the Hoxhunt offices near Ruoholahti. I decided to park at home and then go back using public transport. I could not find any OK parking place near the venue and it was far away that I couldn’t just walk from the place.

Hoxhunt have a nice space. As soon as I entered I noticed the Table Tennis table kept to a side. There were a few people sitting around what I assumed was the presentation area. There were two rows of black plastic chairs kept on the ground and then steps for people to sit, covered in a blue fabric. The top most level of the steps had cushions against the wall, so I took a place there.

I picked some pizza and drinks next. They had four different kinds for vegans/vegetarians.

And then, as I finished typing these lines, I looked up and it was time for the first talk of the evening.

Dangers in Kubelet permissions / Martti Leppänen, Director of Platform Engineering @Hoxhunt

How things are not as innocuous as they seem. The good news was that this vulnerability was fixed in latest releases.

Terraform Blocks You Don’t Know / Lauri Suomalainen, Head of Cloud Development @ Teamit

• Provisioner
• Ephemeral - used to create temp resources. Not stored in state, does not show up in plan files.
• Check - check on outside conditions. Failing does not block plans or applies. Use postconditions if you require operations to be blocked on failure.
• Dynamic - create multiple nested blocks in a resource.
• Import - instead of running import in cli.
• List
• Moved - rename a resource.
• Removed - to remove a resource you don’t want to use. With lifecycle destroy=false. Just replace the resource block with removed.
• testing

And finally about terraform stacks - which I did not understand much.