Ramblings on coding and various technologies
Let me start with the scenario that led me into issues with the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator. I had been running Ubuntu GNOME, a flavor of Ubuntu that was focused on a mostly vanilla install of Gnome on top of Ubuntu. Well, Ubuntu was finally getting rid of the Unity desktop, so the spin off … Read moreIssues with Ubuntu’s Startup Disk Creator for non-debian ISOs
The question is not why you would want to go serverless, the question is why would you not go serverless. Let us think about this for just a second. In a typical environment, you would not only have to think about the flow of the application and how its pieces fit together, but also to … Read moreWhy go Serverless
There. It has been said. Take a moment, and think about it. There is a push in the community to talk about Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and tying this all to the DevOps movement. About what practices are used to get code to market the fastest, and with minimal amount of code defects. … Read moreDevOps is more than just about developers
Terraform is an application by HashiCorp that is designed to treat infrastructure as code. Lately, I have been working with it to begin automation of resources within AWS, and have been quite pleased. Lets get started with building out a Windows 2012 R2 server with Terraform on AWS. You are going to need to have … Read moreBuilding a Windows 2012R2 Instance in AWS with Terraform
Building out AWS infrastructures by hand is not something that should be taken on lightly. Just as in building out a Data Center or service in any cloud environment (Google, VMWare, etc), building out a bunch of systems by hand is a good way to inherit a bunch of technical debt and a headache or … Read moreTerraform vs Cloudformation — First Thoughts
So, if you are working with a cookbook, you may get to the point, where your default attributes file starts to look like an utter mess. As you add more options or configuration parameters, it gets harder and harder to sort what is going on in your attributes file. This is one of the reasons … Read moreHow to break up chef attributes