Random musings
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Being a part of it
In the summer of 2013 I worked on a project that introduced me to Ansible. I was so …
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Ansible for Puppet users
A colleague was asking me questions today about Ansible playbooks, roles, tasks etc and …
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My slides from London Splunk User Group talk
On July 23rd I gave a talk at the London Splunk User Group on automating Splunk with …
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Defining 'DevOps'
You know what, I am starting to despair of the IT industry, just a little bit.
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My slides from DevOps Cardiff talk
On July 2nd I gave a talk at DevOps Cardiff related to the blog post I wrote last year, on …
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Five tips for Ansible newbies
So you’ve decided to do some infrastructure automation as part of your DevOps …
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Logwatch output to NFS with SELinux
As part of a log consolidation exercise I’d decided to try and put logwatch output …
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Atlassian Bamboo Install with Ansible
Jenkins seems to be the prevalent CI/CD software these days - but, truthfully, how many of …
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A high-level design for an OS operating model
In a previous post I mentioned that I would show a high-level design for an infrastructure …
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Rapidly provision Jenkins on AWS using Ansible
This week I’d been fighting with a Chef install to do something relatively simple. …