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
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&
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
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.
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
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