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Continue reading →: TICK Stack – Beginner Notes
What is the TICK stack? Its the combination of “open source” products that make up the InfluxData monitoring and analytics platform. T = Telegraf Responsible for collecting data (metrics) and shipping to InfluxDB I = InfluxDB Responsible for storing the data C = Chronograf Gui for visualization of data in…
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Continue reading →: Ansible and Windows – Setup Notes
Using Ansible to manage Windows hosts gives sys admins the ability to use the same tool-set between Linux and Windows hosts. Below are some notes, issues, and resolutions, you may find useful during your Windows setup. On the Ansible controller instance, you will want to install the Python library for Windows Remote…
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Continue reading →: VirtualBox\Guest Additions\Linux
If you are using VirtualBox and want some additional features present in your guest VM (RHEL), then you will probably end up “trying” to install Guest Additions within your VM. (e.g Shared folders, viewing guest properties from the host) https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-guestprops In my case, I had a VM up and running…
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Continue reading →: Agile Testing Pyramid
If you have ever developed a build\deployment pipeline with automated UI testing at the end, then this article is for you! https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html Its spot on with how fragile UI tests can be and the amount of $$$$ it cost to keep maintaining them. So in a nut shell, this is…
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Continue reading →: Selenium via Firefox, CMD, and Jenkins
So you would like to execute tests using Selenium against a Website. Below are 3 ways that you can execute Selenium for testing. Selenium via Firefox. You must have Firefox installed. You will need the Selenium IDE add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/selenium-ide/ After installing the add-on, you should restart FireFox and verify the Selenium tool installed…
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Continue reading →: Docker and Jenkins
How easy is it to deploy Jenkins using Docker? On a scale of 1 to 10, I would say something between 2 – 4. Here are the quick steps you can follow (along with links) to help you get the job done! First and foremost, you need to get Docker installed on…
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Continue reading →: Putty and VirtualBox
I really like VirtualBox for testing new ideas. However, I am not a huge fan of the VirtualBox preview console when working with Linux instances. So I typically use Putty to ssh into the local instance as needed. Seems to work pretty good for me. Below are some configuration settings…
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Continue reading →: VirtualBox and Ansible
If you are interested in learning Ansible and\or just creating an Ansible test environment, VirtualBox can help you. Steps to spinning up a VirtualBox Ansible test environment. So easy!!!! Download and install VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox Download your preferred Linux flavor. In my case, I decided to us Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)…
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Continue reading →: DevOps – 2 words that come to mind
So what are the 2 words that come to me when someone says DevOps? Collaboration – This means that all teams practice strong collaboration between one another. This doesn’t mean more email or messaging, this means sitting in the same area, participating in the same morning scrums, solving issues together,…
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Continue reading →: Certified ScrumMaster
Early this year I took a ScrumMaster training course and then obtained the certification. Overall I thought the course and instructor were very good. Some of the key items that I took away from the class were as follows. Importance of team retro’s Because my team had been doing Scrum for…
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