To succeed with distributed rapid development, a branch-merge strategy is key. A good strategy facilitates processes among multiple developers or teams and is the basis for any well-functioning DevOps pipeline that uses continuous integration (CI). While there are many ways to implement CI and DevOps without a branch-merge strategy, most mature organizations use them to […]
Managing your code in Chef is just as important as managing your application’s source code. Improper management of your cookbooks will almost guarantee mistakes, frustration and even failure. For the sake of this post, I will assume that you will be able to use git as your SCM. So first, we will set up an […]
Subversion or SVN is a version control system that has been around for over 15 years and was the industry standard before the arrival of Git. Although Git is far superior to SVN, a lot of places are still tied to SVN for any number of reasons. I was exposed to and worked with only […]
