ferricoxideApr 20
It's kind of funny just how much slower it is to write — and particularly test — #Windows oriented configuration-automation that's equivalent to #Linux oriented content (even using simplification frameworks like #SaltStack).

Maybe it's just me, though. Maybe if I were more Windows-oriented, the relationship would be inverted (at least for the code-up part).
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The days I tend to post more are the days where I'm working a Windows-heavy workload. With how much slower it is to iterate with #Windows EC2s, it leaves a lot more "dead" time that I tend to fill by reading from and/or posting to Fedi.
Apr 21 at 11:07amWeb
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The speed-difference between #EC2Launch and #cloud-init is pretty stark. When I fire up a #Linux instance that has a #userData payload, doing:

sleep $(( 60 * 2 )) ; ssh <USER>@<INSTANCE_ID>Is usually sufficient to get me a login. If I launch a Windows-based EC2, I usually have to do:
sleep $(( 60 * 10 )) ; aws ssm start-session --target <INSTNCE_ID>Unless I want the dreaded "not available error". Worse, while two-minute pause for the cloud-init/Linux EC2 usually logs me in with the cloud-init content well underway, the #SSM login, after a ten-minute pause, usually has me arriving well before EC2Launch has even finished unpacking its data to start executing powershell scripts. It's like "dafuq is taking you so long??"

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It feels like #EC2Launch operates at about 1200bps when talking to the metadata service.
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In a way, it reminds me of how old Sun E10Ks' domain-configuration would pull information. Dog. Slow.

Also reminiscent of when I was stuck doing StorageTek (tape-library) work and customers were using serial-based control systems rather than updating their boards so that they could use TCP/IP without the need for SLIP.
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I guess maybe the slowness contributes to why #AWS never added the same kind of "extract a ZIP'ed #userData payload" that's available in #cloud-init. If #EC2Launch is this gawdawful slow with a text-stream payload, how slow would it be if it had to convert a ZIP-stream into uncompressed data".