Category: Data, Terraform, github, automation, yaml

Increased adoption of the cloud has resulted in the breaking down of many traditional roles. The breaking down of these silos has also forced data engineers to fill more DevOps-esque roles; the common name for this is DataOps.

In this case, as we are outputting both the private and public IP addresses of our EC2 instance to make them easily accessible.

As this is the IAM role created in our CloudFormation template, this is easily configurable.

For our simplified sandbox use case, this allows us to remove the first three lines of our User Data and add them to our Packer Provisioner.

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