I’m excited to announce the release of my new book, Practical Linux DevOps with Apress! It’s a guide to creating and using your own lab to get started with Linux and DevOps concepts. https://amzn.to/3NsLH39
My cat Tucker is a somewhat predictable animal who likes to curl up in predictable spots around the house, so he’s the perfect subject for surreptitious video surveillance and just the sort of motivating force I needed to rework a Raspberry Pi project I’d been putting off for some time. [Read more]
This brief video provides a quick overview of Chef Infra, a versatile modern tool for infrastructure-as-code.
Containers have revolutionized application development by making it far easier for engineers and product teams to quickly develop software that’s more reliable and easier to scale, but these benefits have always come with a few worrying realities. It can be hard to know what’s inside a publicly available image and, though they’re handy, containers just… Read More »
Test Kitchen, one of the free tools that ships with Chef Workstation, makes automation testing a snap by enabling you to test your code and policies on a variety of enterprise-grade systems in containers, VMs and public cloud instances. Read more on chef.io
Get started with automation by creating the code needed to deploy and verify a basic NGINX web server. This video tutorial shows you how.
A step-by-step guide to installing Chef Automate and Chef Infra Server on-prem so you can get started with automation and configuration management with Chef Infrastructure, Chef Compliance, and Chef App Delivery.
Take a look at some practices that can help you get a running start with your Chef automation and the principle of Policy as Code. This post is designed to be beginner-friendly. You don’t need any coding experience to follow along — just an interest in automation, and curiosity about how best to implement it… Read More »
For anyone working in a traditional sysadmin role, automation — and a larger DevOps conversation — can be disconcerting. Modern automation means “code” and some sysadmins insist coding is outside their job descriptions. In fact, when I was an IT director, I had a sysadmin tell me, “We don’t code.” He was content with maintaining… Read More »
I’ve always been a bit hesitant to add cellular networking to my IoT projects because I figured the cost of bandwidth and the hardware requirements were more trouble than they were worth. But after some experimentation, I got over my fears and found cellular wasn’t nearly as expensive or as complicated as I thought. [Read… Read More »