its not really that hard to setup amazon system manager. like maybe 2-3 hours of overhead.
the idea that you'd pay a subscription fee greater than aws just to avoid a few hours of learning how to set something up is kinda disgusting in comparison.
I wrote a ruby script that does tag lookup for me with an interactive prompt. Took about an hour. Sent it to my team so we all use it. Can't imagine subscribing to a service for something that is a minor devops task.
This was my comment re. AWS SSM and Tailscale just a few days ago.
'Installing the agent client side is no more or less tedious than installing the Tailscale client, IMO anyway.
I made two scripts, one in .Net with a GUI for non-devs to grep a server hostname or tag:name in AWS that resolves to an instance ID for SSH or RDP. And another python script doing the same but without the GUI for the dev team. Works a treat.
But you've already explained why it's a little tedious and now I've documented and understood why. Tailscale MagicDNS does all this nonsense for you. Yeah ok thanks for rubber ducking me I see your point now. :)'
I didn’t downvote you but the issue is definitely your phrasing (“disgusting”).
It took me all of 3 seconds to fall in love with Tailscale, but I think I agree with your point. This is a place of knowledge and curiosity, so digging into stuff and setting it up yourself is definitely to be commended.
For me, I just want a solution that works and I simply don’t have the cycles to spend on this specific problem. Happy to outsource, nothing disgusting about that.
the idea that you'd pay a subscription fee greater than aws just to avoid a few hours of learning how to set something up is kinda disgusting in comparison.