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by theshrike79 1688 days ago
The possibility to ssh in an emergency is also a possibility ssh in when it's not an emergency and "just quickly change this one thing".

And then the server gets deployed via the script and the quick change isn't there any more.

Whoops.

My EC2 instances are all configured so that they can't be accessed from the outside. They boot up, fetch their install script from a set location and run it.

If they need changes, I either update the base image or the install script.

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> If they need changes, I either update the base image or the install script.

You lose some time and flexibility, just because you are afraid you may forget to integrate the quick change in your scripts.

My bash histories go into a global database to avoid this