Devops
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Writing quick and dirty scripts using bash
You have a few lines you've been typing in your shell, and you'd like to just run it the way you run any other CLI including options. If you're writing a shell script, here's a few tips to help you...
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A few lessons learned using AWS Parameter Store
At my current gig, we've got 50+ services, ~6+ environments, and a rough count of 3.5k parameters across our environments. We used to use Chef::EncryptedDataBags when we used chef-server. A few years...
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4 things I'm looking for when hiring a junior DevOps engineer
You've been hearing about DevOps as a career path, and you're looking to to break into the field as a Jr DevOps engineer, but you don't quite know if you're qualified for it yet. You might be a recent...
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Is it worth the money for a beginner to play around with deploying apps on hosts like AWS, DigitalOcean?
Yes! Absolutely. It'll be the only way for you to really know whats going on behind the scenes. When I got started, my first few expenses of my tech career were a domain, a private non-gmail email...
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Testing your cookbooks with test-kitchen + chefspec + serverspec, part 2
Cookbooks can also get the same red, green, refactor loop going the same way you would with a simple application. It's not all roses though because the loop itself takes a few minutes at a time. Even...
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Getting started with chef cookbooks as an app dev with test-kitchen + docker, part 1
How do you get started with chef cookbooks as an app dev? My first time approaching Chef was after doing Android for about 2 years. Whether you're working on the front-end or backend or even on...
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