Managing Chef Cookbooks for OpsWorks with Berkshelf
AWS OpsWorks makes it easy to deploy Chef cookbooks to configure instances. But without a Chef Server, managing a large collection of cookbooks across multiple projects can be...
The need to Educate your Client
On August 9, 2016 the Australian Bureau of Statistics launched the first ever “eCensus”, calling on over 15 million Australian households to complete their census online. The results...
Secure Credentials with AWS KMS and Chef
Configuration files. They’re fantastic, hey? But they’re also pretty scary, as they tend to have a lot of sensitive data all stored in one place.
...Deployment Testing with Node.js and Mocha
You’re an ops guy. A dev has given you a release package, and some basic detail on what ‘working’ looks like. Let’s make our own smoke tests so...
The Consul of Elders
Beer and pizza. Fish and chips. Docker and Consul. Sometimes perfect matches are discovered, and there’s no going back.
Is the EC2 Container Service a bad idea?
The container revolutionaries call upon you! Are you ready to beg forgiveness for your sins of monolithic architecture?
Packer, Windows, AWS and SSL Howto
Packer, Windows, and AWS. The default Windows configuration that AWS launches is not compatible with Packer out of the box. In this post, I’ll explain what’s going on...
