Building Your DevOps Team
Coveros StaffBlogsNo comments

DevOps is not just about the tools being used in the environment. It’s also about the culture, people, and how the business operates. DevOps brings together all the groups involved – developers, testers, system administrators, network administrators, security, change management, product owners, etc. When these groups are not working together issues can arise and progress […]

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The Jenkins Git Plugin Starts Multiple Builds For The Same Branch
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On my current project, we have recently moved to a CI infrastructure that poll and build from multiple branches — using a wildcard. We noticed with the version of the Git plugin we were using, there was a known bug that would kick off multiple builds when polling from multiple branches. This wouldn’t be a […]

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Adding Security into your CI Process
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Most organizations I’ve worked with often think they are concerned about security, but never actually do anything about it until right before the big production release when it’s often too late to actually make any major security changes before the big “Go/No-Go” decision.  What if security was baked into our CI processes in order to […]

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A Rif on Knife Scripting Encrypted Databags
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My colleague Rich Mills created a great post about a script to get PEM certs into databags. To sum up, the major issue was that the white space was interfering with the knife upload command. The knife script uses the ruby, some chef gems, ruby file manipulation, and the chef api to properly create the […]

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Overriding Cookbook Templates
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As a general practice when using community cookbooks I try not to, unless absolutely necessary, update the code in the cookbook.  This makes updating the version of the cookbook in your git repository to the latest and greatest a bit easier.  Sometimes the community cookbook does not behave exactly the way I want it to behave. […]

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Why Test On Different Networks
Coveros StaffBlogs, Testing1 comment

Introduction Mobile App Testing involves networks, not just the app or device itself. Understanding the basics of telecommunications will always give you advantages when doing testing mobile applications. Testers need to understand the impact of network and communications on testing scope. This is the first in a multi-post segment for understanding the differences between networks, […]

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Using Virtual Machines for Software Development
Jonathan KauffmanDevelopmentNo comments

On my current project I am using a virtual machine (VM) that was provided by the architecture team for software development.  While I have found using this VM to be extremely useful, some developers on the project continue to build and deploy the application directly on their host machines, perhaps out of habit or an unwillingness […]

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Setting your knife.rb cookbook_path to match your cookbook locations
Coveros StaffBlogs, Continuous Deployment, DevelopmentNo comments

Always make sure you set your cookbook_path in knife.rb to something that makes sense for your working environment. People often get confused by how/where the ‘knife’ command is finding cookbooks during commands like “knife cookbook upload” or even “knife cookbooks create.” I remember when I first leaned Chef, I would type “knife cookbook create foo_book” […]

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