zopdev writing tagged deployment. Engineering and FinOps notes, post-mortems, and benchmarks.
A fresh EC2 instance is not an environment. It is a Linux box with an IP address and a checklist attached. Someone still has to point a domain at it, terminate TLS, give it pull access to a private…
Most teams pick a VM because the runtime is simple. Then they spend a week paying for that choice in firewall rules, SSH key rotation, a certbot cron job, and a DNS ticket. The VM was never the…
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