Terraform on AutoSpotting

Progress Report for the First Week After Forking ec2instances.info

Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a little more than a week since I decided to fork ec2instances.info as cloud-instances.info, which I announced publicly last Thursday.

While in my previous post I mostly focused on the context around this fork and how I got to it, on this post I want to talk a bit about what happened after after I decided to fork the project over the last few days and where we’re at right now.

Releasing Additional Terraform Building Blocks to the LeanerCloud ONCE Bundle

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Announcing a new release to the LeanerCloud ONCE bundle, which consists of the Terraform serverless microservice building blocks.

The bundle also contains the Optimizer CLI FinOps tool for GP2 to GP3 conversion for EC2 and EDS, and rightsizing with conversion to Graviton for RDS, Elasticache and OpenSearch, released previously.

These Terraform building blocks are a set of example Terraform modules for building serverless applications using Lambda and ECS Fargate. They will have a slightly different license from the CLI tools, which will allow you to use them to build proprietary products and use within your team, which is not permitted for the CLI tools.

Adopting the ONCE Model for All My CLI FinOps Tools and Terraform Building Blocks

Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I decided to release all the CLI tools and Terraform building blocks I use in my customers engagements under the 37signals ONCE Model, and under their ONCE source-available license.

What’s included?

For now this release only includes Optimizer, my flagship CLI tool for automated optimization of AWS resources which I use all the time in my service engagements to save my customers lots of money.

The main use case for the Optimizer tool is for mass-optimization of any or even all of the supported resources within your AWS account, and it is mainly built for hands-on FinOps consultants or people doing large optimization initiatives like I do for my customers.

Current OpenTofu Contributors vs. Pledged FTEs

Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

OpenTofu Github stats half a year after the fork.

May 03, 2024

After the recent layoffs at Google that impacted open source maintainers of some prominent projects, I was curious to see what’s the state of other projects where the community had to step up involvement after the initial authors ceased their Open Source contributions.

I saw a few people made similar comparisons for other forked projects in the past. As an infra guy myself, I immediately thought about OpenTofu, now that we’re more than half a year after the fork from Terraform, they recently had a massive release, and also had some interesting shenanigans with Hashicorp’s lawyers accusing them of stealing their precious IP.

Weekly Update - 3 Mar 2023

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello and welcome to this week’s progress report.

This is also a bit of a special one, since it marks more than 6 months since I left AWS to double down on AutoSpotting development.

Without further ado, let’s dive right in!

Terraform updates

I started the week by working on bringing the AutoSpotting Terraform module in sync with the CloudFormation template, after previously it was rolling out an ancient release of AutoSpotting from October 2021, with lots of known issues.