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A comment on Terraforming 1Password.

Re:Terraforming 1Password by paulddraper on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:07PM (#16249538)
> servers will be down for the next few hours. We are recreating our entire environment to replace AWS CloudFormation with @HashiCorp Terraform.

One of the greatest strengths of terraform (vs say, cloudformation) is that you can adopt existing resources, and ZERO downtime is needed to migrate.

Why take downtime?

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Re:Terraforming 1Password by stimur on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:21PM (#16260331)
Because we needed to re-deploy our database, which unfortunately requires downtime.
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