When I first heard about DevOps around 12 years ago I was working for a company called Rally Software. When I asked one of my co-workers what DevOps meant he said “It’s when developers have root access in production”. My immediate though was “The horror!!”. For the last 12 years I’ve studyed the writings and
So I’ve spent all Labor Day Weekend playing with Deis and I have to say I am very impressed with the concept, but really I am not yet sure it’s ready for my needs yet. However we do plan on engaging with Gabriel so hopefully he can clear up some issues I’ve been having. For those
In my current environment (not for this blog lol) I leverage multiple ELBs to provide multi availability zone HA. We also use Zabbix to monitor our EC2 environment (in a previous post I extended the Mikoomi EC2 Zabbix plugin) so I figured I would create a way to have Zabbix alert on outages with backend
I wanted to write a blog post about something that I assume other people might be struggling with when deploying applications to EC2. Specifically how do I tell my deployment scripts (fabric in my case) to wait until puppet has finished before moving on to actually deploying my application.