Fast forward two years from your post, I'm dealing with the same issue. I'm thinking of just installing rsyslog and being done with it. It seems that Amazon themselves don't use journald for things like the cloudwatch agent, but instead recommend installing rsyslog and reading from the "traditional" log files.  ... View more

The short term solution we went with was to update the deployer_lookups_push_mode to not update the lookups as part of the push. Then, any time we needed to update the lookups, we leveraged the lookup editor app's API endpoint to make our updates (/services/data/lookup_edit/lookup_contents) as part of our ci/cd pipeline which we use to push updates to the cluster. There are example scripts posted online you should be able to find pretty easily in order to do this. It's not the most elegant solution, but it's getting us through until we can upgrade 🙂 ... View more

This behavior definitely still exists - wasn't fixed in 9.0.1. We went from 8.2.4 to 9.0.3 and deployments are taking a lot longer as the Deployer is pushing all the apps, no matter if they've been updated or not ... View more