alt Hacker NewsMy work ritual every morning:
1. Power on laptop (it is powered off every day at 5 PM).
2. Log into VPN.
3. Log into Okta.
4. Log into AWS accounts, one per container (about 7 or 8).
5. Log into Docker Desktop.
6. Log into AWS CLI to get daily credentials.
The whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes. A former colleague referred to this as my "mise en place", or my daily arranging of my working environment. Like the article suggests, I find this offers me a "centering" before I open my email, calendar and missed chat messages and get started for the day.
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Do those stay logged in for extended amounts of time? Most of my "serious" accounts have expiration times of an hour, so I only ever login when required.
All that should just happen. Unless it is FedRAMP or something insane like that.
Hello internet friend. I may be able to make your life easier for 4.
You can use aws vault to open the aws console using roles:
aws-vault --help
usage: aws-vault [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]
...
login [<flags>] [<profile>]
Generate a login link for the AWS Console.
You can just to `avli some-role` and it will pop up in the browser in a new profile.
The only downside here is that you can't combine them into one window.
But it takes the pain out of logging in, and 2 factor, etc.
What is your VPN setup like?
I'm glad it helps you center.
But does anyone else think it's crazy how many logons you need to do on a repetitive basis?