Chef Con 2015

I’m presenting at Chef Con! So if you have any free time, you should drop by Santa Clara next week. Schedule Direct link to me I’m going to talk more in depth about migrating to the cloud using Chef, Design decisions which can save you some time, and talk to them about some debugging tips […]

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Why Test on Different Networks – Proprietary Data

Introduction Back in October I wrote a post about testing your mobile application on different networks and I promised a few follow-up articles. Unfortunately, I have been sidetrack with a lot of other work, and finally I have some time to get back to addressing this issue. This article will go over some results of […]

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DevOpsDC: Developing a Continuous Delivery Tool Chain from the Bottom Up

Last week I was able to talk about some of my DevOps experiences at the March 2015 DevOpsDC Meetup. I told the story about how we took a project that was just starting Agile and was deploying a risky release to production every 6 months or so, and over 4+ years brought it to deploying […]

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Engineering Your DevOps Solution: Building a Pipeline that Scales

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACT: David Burke dave.burke@coveros.com   [February 28, 2015, Fairfax, Virginia] DevOps practitioners, technical leads of development groups, operations managers, project managers and senior leadership trying to derive maximum return on their investment are signing up for a free opportunity to hear from the experts.  On March 10th at 12:00pm EST Jeffery […]

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Sign Up For Our Webinar : “Engineering Your DevOps Solution: Building a Pipeline that Scales”

Sign up for a free opportunity to hear from DevOps experts at Coveros. March 10th at 12:00pm EDT Jeffery Payne and Richard Mills will lead an interactive session called Engineering Your DevOps Solution: Building a Pipeline that Scales. Learning objectives include how to build a “meta-pipeline,” how to up your automated testing game, how to […]

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Forklifting Chef Server

From There to Here and Here to There Due to the requirements of my client I have a need to move our chef server into a completely different hosting environment. This little journey started when I asked that we actually try and preform a restore from our chef backups. When that didn’t work, one of […]

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Easy Button for Testing of Mobile Devices and Apps: AppUse

Knowing where to start in the penetration testing world is very difficult and largely inconsistent. With so many options and tools available simply kicking off a scan of the network can require a considerable time investment. That is even truer in the relatively new world of mobile testing. Please only use the tools and methods discussed on systems that you […]

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The Journey to Continuous Delivery
Continuous Discussions

This past week I had the privilege of being a panelist in a #c9d9 webinar about “The Journey to Continuous Delivery”. Continuous Discussions (#c9d9): Episode 10 Recap – Continuous Delivery I joined several other panelists as we discussed several questions: How Agile are you? Do you have a CD champion? What does your tool chain […]

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Setting Up Maven Style Releases in Jenkins Using Javascript

Introduction Jenkins has some great plugins for managing releases for Maven projects. You can tag projects in your source code repository, advance the versions, mark code as SNAPSHOTS, etc. And all of this can be done with one click of a button. The simplicity of this release process made me start looking for other simple […]

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Chef Advanced Debugging: Detecting bad attributes earlier

As I talked about last month when trying to demystify  “UNDEFINED METHOD `[]’ FOR NIL:NILCLASS” error, it can be challenging to make sure all your attributes are set the way you want, or even at all. One thing that should be detectable is anytime you get nothing (nil) back from a Node[] call, we might as […]

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