SOPS is a tool that provides the ease of hard-coded plain-text secrets with the security of a cloud-based vault to securely publish and managed secrets from inside your code. SOPS does this by generating encrypted files that can be safely committed to GitHub and bundled into your production deployments. These…

Managing secrets between development, production, and other environments slows down software engineering teams. Historically, to onboard into a new engineer into a new code base required that engineer to copy a peer’s .env file and then manually keep that .env file in sync with any future changes. This method for…

Deploying our code at ClickFlow using AWS Lambda functions via Terraform has transformed our team’s cycle time from weeks to days. This has let our small startup engineering team focus more on business opportunities and value without the technical overhead of traditional server architectures. In this article, we will walk…

Local development for AWS Lambda is usually coupled with an all-in-one framework like Serverless. These all-in-one frameworks breech the orthogonality of software design by tightly coupling your local development to other areas like your infrastructure provisioning or your CICD scripts. To avoid tight coupling in our infrastructure at ClickFlow we…

Docker Compose is a fantastic tool for Docker container orchestration locally, but it does not provide good examples for how to connect your containers together once they are running. Something I will explain in this article. Below is an examples of a docker-compose.yml file which defines (1) some kind of…