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Continue reading →: Brian Harry – DevOps Presentation
I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to listen to Brian Harry speak twice this week. (At work and at MHTA) I have been a big follower of Brian since the early TFS 2005 days, so I was pumped!!! His talk was about DevOps and his VSTS teams journey. Below are…
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Continue reading →: Ansible – Dryrun and Limit Hosts
Here are a couple of useful Ansible playbook CLI switches I tend to use frequently. Dry-run mode – Add this switch if you want to see what Ansible will do, without actually doing it. –check Limit target hosts – Add this switch to specify what host(s) you want to run…
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Continue reading →: Python, Flask, and Rest API
This blog post is a continuation of my Google Home\Google Action side project. The first blog post is here. The project keeps evolving the more I think about it. The 2 diagrams below illustrate the workflows that need to be developed. Populate the Database – Workflow 1 Google Home\Google Action –…
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Continue reading →: Chronograf In Final Beta!
Chronograf, which is part of the TICK monitoring stack, is close to GA! Check out the final beta overview video here! Chronograf mascot below….
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Continue reading →: New Docker\Ansible container per Playbook execution?
What would it look like to setup a job in Jenkins that calls out to a Linux server, starts an Ansible Docker container that executes a playbook, and then shuts down the docker container like it never existed? Time to find out….. For this exercise, we are going to have…
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Continue reading →: Python, Google API, and PDF
As a side project, I was thinking about creating a Google Action that returned the daily lunch menu for my children’s school from Google Home. This would surely come in handy for my family and others. To complete this project, I was thinking the following tasks would need to be completed.…
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Continue reading →: Hypervisor – Type 1 & Type 2
Learned something new today…. Hypervisor – Type 1 (e.g. VMware ESXi Server) Hypervisor – Type 2 (e.g Oracle Virtual Box) Source – http://www.golinuxhub.com/2014/07/comparison-type-1-vs-type-2-hypervisor.html
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Continue reading →: VSTS For Family Planning? Get out!
Visual Studio Team Services (aka VSTS) is the online\cloud hosted version of Team Foundation Server. There are some differences\benefits between the 2 which Buck Hodges clearly explains here. Microsoft offers free access to VSTS for smaller teams. (5 users) This free access will allow you to get a pretty good…
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Continue reading →: Azure Storage Emulator & Explorer
Want to easily test\develop against Azure Storage Services locally? If so then you should try the new Azure Storage Explorer app and the Azure Storage Emulator! For reference, the following storage services are currently offered by Azure. Blob (Container) storage service Table (NoSQL) storage service Queue (Messaging) storage service File…
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Continue reading →: Ant vs Maven vs Gradle
If you are working with Java projects, then you are probably using one of the following 3 build tools. Apache Ant (Introduced around 2000) Apache Maven (Introduced around 2003\2004) Gradle (Introduced around 2007+) The majority of my experience has been with Ant, which isn’t surprising since its been around the longest. I’ve also used both…
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