fortejas

Using Secrets per Environment with CoPilot CLI

This assumes that we have a CoPilot app called test-app and both a test & prod environment configured.

1. Start by uploading environment variables for our application's environments

   $ # Test Param
   $ aws ssm put-parameter \

dcondrey

/**
 * Calculate the contrast of a color to determine the appropriate opposing text color.
 * @author  D. Condrey
 * @param  {string|object} - element background-color or element
 * @return {string}
 *   white - if background is a dark shade color
 *   black - if background is a light shade color
 */
define(function() {

kentbrew

The Problem

Standard practices say no non-root process gets to talk to the Internet on a port less than 1024. How, then, could I get Node talking on port 80 on EC2? (I wanted it to go as fast as possible and use the smallest possible share of my teeny tiny little micro-instance's resources, so proxying through nginx or Apache seemed suboptimal.)

The temptingly easy but ultimately wrong solution:

Alter the port the script talks to from 8000 to 80:

}).listen(80);