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by jaredhallen 14 days ago
Seems like a weird crusade. Pointing everything directly at the IP address might not seem so swell when it's time to upgrade the server or the address has to change for some reason. Sure would be nice to just update the DNS record to point to the new address.
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themafia 14 days ago
> or the address has to change for some reason

One annoying reason is you don't own it/have access through the owner anymore.

> Sure would be nice to just update the DNS record to point to the new address.

EC2. Elastic IPs are easy enough, but, precisely, I would just like to make a Route53 alias for an EC2 instance and not even have to care.

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louwrentius 14 days ago
Proposed solution: update the inventory and run your Ansible playbook/role agains your infrastructure (or subset). I don’t see the issue, to be frank.
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