Leon

> forced upgrades

I think the forced upgrades were a good thing. The security model on Windows 10 and continued support of updates to 10 is overall a Good Thing for the average Windows User. The majority of users on Windows run their systems in extremely non-secure ways and skip updates and upgrades completely. This is a danger to the internet as a whole.

To me it ultimately comes down to this: I can't force my older relatives to update their machines or even stop them from running ancient versions of Windows. On that front, Windows 10 made things better.

Usually Football pays for itself.

In addition to more vacation days, maternity leave, etc

A simple solution in this vein is to white list your the EIP addresses of your NAT. This would give access to all resources in a private subnet (this is useful for Lambda's running in subnets).

Vault is really wonderful to work with, and its integration with consul makes it phenomenally powerful.

> And somehow in the more affluent parts of the city where I live, Comcast, Google and AT&T are all competing. AT&T and Google are both offering gigabit internet for $70 a month.

Google is offering service in limited areas of 8 cities and have put on hold any future expansion. That is not comparative to the rest of the country and shouldn't be used as an example of competition. The country has no real competition for internet service providers.

Can you cite this?

That would actually be perfect for long range interstellar probes. A constant source of energy for thousands of years, even that small, would propel a craft to reasonably high speeds. Give a spacecraft a few pounds and you'd have something really great.

  > I was riding my bike the day after the procedure.

Please do not spread terrible medical advice which you were surely told not to do. That's great you turned out fine but it is not ethical to promote such behavior.

Think of it as someone saying their children turned out fine without immunizations. Your words can become incredibly dangerous once you begin questioning doctors if you are not trained or have added knowledge in the area of specialty.

I think I'm a little confused by what you are asking - are you wanting to run a consul server and agent on the same instance? You can do that and specify an ID appropriate to the consul service type for multi-tenancy situations of master nodes and client nodes. But that would be up to you given your deployment environments.

Are you wanting to have a single consul service running for the whole environment (as client and server)? If you're running an HA environment you should really have dedicated master nodes and non-voting clients for service discovery on instances. The member states of consul clusters have an IP and ID, are you saying that the IP could be mixed with a different ID (it could in the cloud, but upon connecting to the leader it would update its registered information).

Are you talking about cleaning up old instances registered in the cluster? Or that there could be a single master node which has a broken network connection to the other master nodes, so sees different cluster status information? In that case, you should be monitoring all your services. Always. There are a lot of tools out there which will clean up and correct voting clusters in those situations. We use Sensu and Kubernetes checks / services for a lot of monitoring and automatic reaction to changes in cluster health.

You are correct and I came here to say the same. Additionally I've seen issues working with etcd in that it is a pain to manage, with situations coming about of split cluster issues where the data becomes corrupted and needs to be manually merged together. That is a bad situation to be in, and usually it is better to develop for failure, especially in cloud environments. You can get split-brain problems on any clustered agreement replication, etcd is not a special case.

You can specify a custom ID. I use ID's such as AWS instance ID for clusters in Amazon.