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matthewmacleodtoday at 11:34 AM1 replyview on HN

What would be your use-case for auth keys with long expiry times? Auth keys are only required for registering new nodes.


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stingraycharlestoday at 12:04 PM

When managing your infrastructure as code, it’s quite common to deploy new instances for upgrades etc. Having these keys expire after 3 months is a big pain. Eg doing a routine update by rebuilding an AMI.

I don’t understand how they can have such a strategy, and then not having any decent way to programmatically allocate new keys.

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