This starts with an abstracted config file… [python] ### variables (abstract these further and pull in as a seprate file – then create a new file for a new environment) region = ‘aws region’ cluster_name = ‘cluster’ amiid = ‘ami-123456789123’ instance_type = ‘t2.medium’ key_name = ‘aws key name’ subnet_id_1 = ‘subnet-123456789123’ subnet_id_2 = ‘subnet-123456789125’…
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Blue Green w/S3, Cloudfront, Route53
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,…
Continue ReadingWhy Devops Falls Short (for Most Companies)
When companies move their development over to scrum they feel they’ve found a holy grail. For a while, anyway. Then the realities of scrum and agile development creep in. The separate Operations division finds the response time they can manage and the training of developers on using repositories, CICD servers, packer, ansible, tooling, plus trying…
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