I just had a conversation with a college student, first year, studying computer and software engineering and looking for a broad overview of technology and the field’s past and future. Out of that conversation I’m highlighting some stable pieces of data that have held true over time. automation – automate as you go. There’s a…
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ssh -i localkey -L local_port:localhost:remote_port user@ip I had to look this up again. I haven’t had to use this in a while, maybe five years? I also wanted multiple ports forwarded, and that works like ssh -i localkey -L local_port:localhost:remote_port -L local_port:localhost:remote_port user@ip And… jenkins host inside remote VPC: ssh -i catalyst -L 8080:localhost:18080 centos@bastion-host-ip…
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I tend to code and architect devops with an eye toward NOT being locked into any particular cloud or service. Netsaint -> Nagios -> Icinga Hudson -> Jenkins VMWare -> Vagrant -> Docker -> Kubernetes -> ECS Everything changes. That ideal cloud you are moving on to right now – will change in five years,…
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There is a method in the GUI for Jenkins that tells the Jenkins java process to reload its config from disk. From outside the GUI, where devops and automation live, you can do the same thing through the jenkins-cli.jar. This needed a script to craft the other pieces needed, retrieving a key from vault in…
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