I came into a new project recently. One of the challenges was that the CICD pieces almost worked for developers, but fell short and all of the QA was being done because of that on the developer’s local laptop. It works on my local… Actually and in fact. Each developer would announce to the group…
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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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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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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…
Continue ReadingSo far git submodules are working for centralized code that repeats in use across repos and even organizations, and doesn’t change much. But one thing I run into constantly is where the code is for a repo I’ve just cloned that has a submodule, and even new repos as we re-architect some of our builds….
Continue ReadingNebula-in-a-Box actually works now. The latest problems were in ssl certificates, vault, consul, DNS, internal addressing, tuning consul to run as basically a single master instance (not designed for that). The Nebula-in-a-Box orion instance comes up now with consul fully functioning as service discovery and DNS. It registers and interacts with the local vault. The…
Continue ReadingI am working through an ansible play setup where a notifyCommit from GitHub (or a curl from the command line…) goes to a Jenkins controller which pulls a Jenkinsfile to guide a pipeline build out of the repo and then that Jenkinsfile first calls an installer.yml play. That installer construct is a git submodule in…
Continue ReadingNebula is an Open Source CICD pipeline. It was developed using Jenkins, ansible, packer, python and AWS as an end-to-end CICD product, distributed across individual self-healing clouds, so recoverable and massively scalable. Spun down to minimize cost in AWS when idling. I started about four weeks ago to bring all of the products together on…
Continue Reading…in other words, DevOps. Github sends a notifyCommit message to Jenkins. That message passes through the Jenkins git plugin, which triggers a job if (1) there is a job configured with a git url matching the notifyCommit git url, and (2) there is a change to the code. If the job does not already exist…
Continue ReadingI wanted modular code – edit in one place, use in many. I started trying out git submodules. They were cool, but static. Changing code bases would be a pain to keep track of and manipulate. But the separation of ansible role and builds. allows us to immediately reuse code. I’m building a single instance…
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