The problem of getting EC2 images to do what you want is quite significant, mostly I find the whole thing a bit flakey and with too many moving parts. When and what AMI to start Once started how to do you configure it from base to functional. Especially in a way that doesn’t become a [...]
A very typical scenario I come across on many sites is the requirement to monitor something like Puppet across 100s or 1000s of machines. The typical approaches are to add perhaps a central check on your puppet master or to check using NRPE or NSCA on every node. For this example the option exist to [...]
I’ve recorded a screencast that walks you through the process of developing a SimpleRPC Agent, give it a DDL and also a simple client to communicate with it. The tutorial creates a small echo agent that takes input and return it unmodified. It validates that you are sending a string and has a sample of [...]
It’s a typical situation, the developers develop on their own boxen, they only start to integrate their code on on the production platform 3 hours before the deadline. And then the problems start, the typical “But it works on my system” , “its you…
I’ve had two successive Marionette Collective releases recently, I was hoping to have one big one but I was waiting for the Stomp maintainers to do a release and it was taking a while. These two releases are both major feature releases covering major feature sets. See lower down for a breakdown of it all. [...]
Yesterday @beaker posted his ideas on the #devops movement …
Apparently we haven’t been stressing enough on the fact that it isn’t just about Devs and Ops,
So let me repeat it’s not just about Devs and Ops, it’s about breaking silo’s , about being go…
Last week was pretty heavy on conferences for me. On wednesday I had to give my Building Virtual Appliances talk at the at the Sizing Server event on Advanced Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud Computing , but the most important part of the week was th…
For all the security experts : the NLUUG has published it’s Call For Abstracts for it’s Fall conference.. as you might have guessed the topic is Security, we welcome all abstracts tackling security in a broad sense.
Possible topics include:
* cl…
This is the second part to the devops homebrew post. I forgot couple things in my first post so here are couple other observations Change is an ongoing process All the changes I talked about in the first post took a long time. It took more than a year to get issues assessed, discussed, designed, [...]
Johan from Sizing Servers asked me if I could talk about my experiences on building (virtual) appliances at their Advanced Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud seminar . Off course I said yes ..
Slides are below … Enjoy ..
Building appliances
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