21. January 2016
Docker "Development" on OSX: out of space!
Using docker-machine/docker-toolbox to do some hefty container lifting? Constantly running out of disk space? A quick resolution to your problem!
29. April 2015
Chef-Vault and a Fantastic Blunder
This morning, like some other mornings, I really screwed one up! It’s never fun to admit, but it is a part of life and in the spirit of openness I’ll just do my best to embrace it! Some background: I really, really love chef-vault. Apparently this morning I also really forgot how it works when I stupidly reset my chef private key. In case you ever make this amazing mistake, here’s how I went about resolving it!
28. April 2015
Test Kitchen on Docker with Kitematic
I’ve had the great opportunity in the past 4 or so months to really get going with chef, and writing automated infrastructure. It’s an incredibly deep world/community filled with loads of wonderful people and tools. One of the best tools for writing quality chef cookbooks is Test Kitchen. Test Kitchen by default uses a vagrant/virtual box environment to quickly converge and test a chef cookbook. But I’m ready to push this forward with docker for speed of convergence! Even better, I use a mac for my local machine and the docker team released an awesome beta of Kitematic to facilitate docker containers on Mac OS. Getting them set up together requires very little effort, but I wanted to note it here in case it was helpful!
16. February 2015
Auto Deploys using wintersmith, travisci and github pages
My latest attempt at a blog has been dead for nearly a year. Why run a wordpress install for a few posts from a year back, right? So I moved the content to a wintersmith template and hooked into a TravisCI build to send the compiled static content back to github for hosting on github pages. Here’s how I did it!
24. February 2014
request-tracker4 sqlite woes
My team has been using RT (or request-tracker4) as a ticketing system to manage incoming requests. As with most new system implementations in a group as small as mine is, we can hit the ground running and just make changes/adjust as needed. This one made me a bit frustrated, so I figured I’d share in case it helped someone else.