No more AWS Access Keys?

It’s too common these days that I struggle to find solid stretches of time to think about things, so I tend to make progress on tech chores while I’m on holiday. This is an example…

Calistemon flower
Calistemon flower in Amsterdam Botanic Garden, photo by author.

One of the things that has been on my mind is to follow AWS best practices, and try to eliminate the use of IAM access key and secret access key pairs from my laptop. It’s a good rule of thumb from AWS, but it turns out to be rather frustratingly poorly explained how you can go about it. So, here’s what I worked out for my purposes.

Two big caveats: this solution was for my own personal use cases, and may not match yours. Also, it’s quite Mac-centric, because that’s where I work. Your mileage may vary.

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AWS MSK + Glue – Part One

Antique cannon covered in snow
(Photo by Author)

Over December 2022 I got it into my head that I wanted my teams to skill up on the combination of Kafka and a Schema Register. There’s a ton of resources on introducing the use of Kafka, and some resources on using a Schema Registry, but I was not satisfied that there were any consolidated quick-starts that experienced engineers could use as templates for building real production solutions.

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