You Don't Know Jenkins - Part 4 - Kubernetes Slaves
Jenkins is one of the most popular Continuous Integration servers ever. It supports an absurd amount of languages, frameworks, source code management systems and tools via... »
Docker Hub - Matrix Builds and Tagging using Build Args
If you’re a heavy user of Docker, you’re already intimately familiar with Docker Hub, the official Docker Image registry. One of the best things about Docker... »
Drawbridge - SSH Config management for Jump/Bastion hosts
In our architecture we have many environments (test/stage/prod/etc), and each environment can have one or more shards, usually broken up by datacenter/avaliablity zone (us-east-1, us-west-2, etc).... »
Jenkins Dockerized Slave Cluster - Premise
Here’s the premise, we have one or more Jenkins masters running our various jobs, and the server is bottlenecking: the UI is sluggish, and builds are... »
You Don't Know Jenkins - Part 3
With the release of Jenkins 2.x, support for Pipeline jobs is built-in. This is important for multiple reasons, but mostly because Pipeline jobs are now the... »
Devops for Startups & Small Teams
When you’re working on a side-project or at a startup as part of a small focused team, it can be hard to get away from the... »
You Don't Know Jenkins - Part 2
Jenkins is great. It’s the most popular CI/CD tool, with an incredibly active community writing plugins for every api/platform under the sun. It doesn’t matter if... »
You Don't Know Jenkins - Part 1
Jenkins is great. It’s the most popular CI/CD tool, with an incredibly active community writing plugins for every api/platform under the sun. It doesn’t matter if... »
Continuous Delivery for Versioned Artifacts/Libraries (Npm, Chef, Gems, Bower, Pip, etc)
So you’re the devops/automation guy or gal on your team. You live and die by “Automate all the things”. Or maybe you just like the fact... »
Generating Intranet and Private Network SSL Certificates using LetsEncrypt
This post is a follow up to my previous one Automating SSL Certificates using Nginx & LetsEncrypt. This time we’ll be generating SSL certificates for intranet... »
Automating SSL Certificates using Nginx & Letsencrypt - Without the Catch 22
There’s a ton of smart people out there who’ve written guides on setting up Nginx, and automating Letsencrypt —but none that setup automation and work 100%... »