Introduction I recently had need of setting up a Chef server for some internal work. Instead of setting up a hosted Chef server, I decided to try launching a machine inside AWS. My main reasoning behind this was that we wouldn’t need the Chef server up too frequently, and so having the ability to keep […]
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 […]
Jenkins is a powerful tool in your Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery toolbox. For my last clients over the past several years, we have utilized Jenkins to deploy software and preform automated testing. One of the most powerful tools I have used to orchestrate deployments and testing has been the Build Flow Plugin. It has allowed […]
I’ve worked on a number of DevOps projects recently where I’ve had to assemble Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines to build, deploy, and test software. In my case, we’ve been using Chef to automatically deploy various components of a java-based web system using Jenkins. We have a lot of pipeline job chains created in Jenkins to […]
I’ve been doing a lot of work with Chef and Berkshelf over the last few years. I started in a world without Berkshelf and wrote a conglomeration of spaghetti cookbooks that had a mess of dependencies and were very difficult to maintain. Eventually, I bit the bullet and started using Berkshelf 2.0 to manage my […]
Coveros Partners with InfoZen on USCIS Transformation Integration Award Program will accelerate delivery of USCIS software projects Loudoun County, VA, August 28, 2014 — Coveros, Inc., the market leader in secure software development, today announced that it has partnered with InfoZen on the contract that was awarded 10/22/2013 with the performance start date of 2/4/2014 […]
Coveros CTO Tom Stiehm is presenting a conference session on Implementing Cloud-Based DevOps for distributed Agile projects at ADCWest / BSCWest in Las Vegas June 5, 2013 Cloud-based development, delivery, and deployment environments are the future of IT operations. Thomas Stiehm shares the hard-learned lessons of setting up and running cloud-based solutions that implement DevOps […]
The focus of continuous delivery isn’t just about being quicker when developing and deploying, but rather delivering business value continuously. And we only see business value from software when it is made available to end users. I heard a project lead explain that his team had a continuous delivery process. They used source control management […]
On my current project we have started working on a continuous delivery process. We started moving that direction as a way to improve and extend our development feedback loop, but really ended up with a way to deliver better software and to deliver it faster and more often with less risk. If you haven’t had […]
