Category Archive: devops

Jun 24

Abusing HAProxy: Stupid Simple Easy Dashboards

I wanted a simple way to have a dashboard to show if hosts and services are alive & didn’t want to write much code and/or run up a nagios instance (or anything like that). All I care is whether it’s green or red. I’d already been setting up HAProxy for a proxy forwarder, so I …

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Apr 25

Rules for Operations

The Big Three

The following list was compiled in 2012 for a talk on Operations Principles for Developers (Ops4Devs). They are loosely inspired by the list of rules from Zombieland as well as from my experiences and those shared by others. Looking over the list four years later, I believe that they are still (very) applicable for all …

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Apr 24

DevOps Creed (Work in Progress)

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This is a work in progress of a DevOps Creed. It will always be a work in progress as I and others learn and grow. Suggestions are welcome! I have drunk deep of the DevOps Kool-Aid. From the visions which ensued, I have come to the following…. I Believe: DevOps methodologies lead to systems which …

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Infrastructure as Code

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The essence of infrastructure as code is to treat the configuration of systems the same way that software code is treated — Kief Morris

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Without Repeatability… Automation is Meaningless

Without Repeatability, Automation is Meaningless

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Sketchnote: Beginning the DevOps Journey

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Sketchnote: DevOps Days Ohio Ignite Talks (Day 1)

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Sketchnote: Humans By the Hundreds

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Sketchnote: Cloud AntiPatterns

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Sketchnote: Container Orchestration Security

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