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Terraform

Taming Terraform with Modules

Some of us know what Terraform is. It’s an Open Source tool created and maintained by Hashicorp to help us specify and manage our Infrastructure as Code across multiple Infrastructure as

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Python

Running Tasks Based on Public Holidays

Over the past few years I’ve worked for various financial organizations in different areas. Something that has come up quite often is public holidays or bank holidays in the UK. They&

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Jenkins

Securing Jenkins Workspaces

Jenkins is a powerful tool for building, packaging and deploying your software. It can stand in as an ad-hoc task runner, an orchestrator and replace your cron jobs to give some visibility into

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goss

Testing DNS Infrastructure with Goss

In a previous post we got an introduction to "Easy Infrastructure Testing with Goss". In this post we’ll take a look at a feature I added to Goss a while ago.

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Configuration Management

Easy Infrastructure Testing with Goss

In the world of infrastructure; new servers, VMs, containers or applications are often manually validated by a human. Some form of build document or checkbox exercise takes place to confirm that the piece

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Puppet

Puppet Anti-Patterns

Over my years in the tech industry I’ve gained a lot of experience with Configuration Managemnt tools such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible. In this post I’d like to

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