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AWS

How do I get access?

Ask in the #team-infrastructure Slack channel for someone to add you.

To give someone access

  1. Go to this link while logged in
  2. Use their email address as their username
  3. Add them to the "developers" group on the next step
  4. Tell them to use http://go/aws to log in

Permissions errors using AWS CLI

If you see something like:

<my-user> is not authorized to perform: <action> on resource: <resource> with an explicit deny

Note the "with an explicit deny" in the end which likely is due to the fact that we force Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Follow this guide to use a session token.

TLDR:

  1. Look up your security credential MFA device name from AWS console from https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#/users/<user-name>?section=security_credentials
  2. Run aws sts get-session-token --serial-number <arn-of-the-mfa-device> --token-code <code-from-token> --duration 129600 where code-from-token is the same code you'd use to login to the AWS console (e.g. from Authy app).
  3. Run the following code, replacing the placeholder values with the appropriate ones:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=example-access-key-as-in-previous-output
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=example-secret-access-key-as-in-previous-output
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=example-session-token-as-in-previous-output
  1. Unset them when done (after they expire before running get-session-token again):
unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID && unset AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY && unset AWS_SESSION_TOKEN

Deploying PostHog

See docs here.

GCP

How do I get access?

Ask in the #team-infrastructure Slack channel for someone to add you.

To give someone access: Navigate to PostHog project IAM and use the +Add button at the top to add their PostHog email address and toggle Basic -> Editor role.

Deploying PostHog

See docs here.

DigitalOcean

How do I get access?

Ask in the #team-infrastructure Slack channel for someone to add you.

To give someone access: navigate to PostHog team settings page and use the Invite Members button to add their PostHog email address.

Edit 1-Click app info

This can be done in the vendor portal, click on PostHog with Approved status to edit the listing.

The code and setup files are in digitalocean/marketplace-kubernetes repository.

Deploying PostHog

See docs here.

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