We have been back in the kitchen and cooking up some new Veeam integrations. Since the VeeamON event back in May, I have planned to put together a few sample Terraform templates. The conference went great and our session was very well received. The subject involved how we came up with the Chef Cookbook for […]
Six months after releasing 1.0 of the Veeam cookbook, I am happy to announce that there is a brand new version and even more bells and whistles. The timing of this release corresponds with the VeeamOn conference starts this week. In order to be fully prepared, I took some time to perform a very substantial […]
The other day, I saw a sticker on someone’s laptop that said ‘DevOps Specialist’ What does that really even mean? Over the past few years, this term has come to mean many things to many people. It has gone from an adjective describing a process flow to being a verb. We do this often – […]
A few months ago, I received a request to help out on a project to create a cookbook for Veeam Software specifically their Backup and Replication platform for Virtualized environments. Always up for a challenge, I started working on the project around the beginning of the year and was able to create a working model. Other […]
Ever misplace the key to your house? It really is annoying when you need to get back into your house. Even more so when you realize that you left your 8 week old puppy loose. If you call the locksmith, he will likely re-key your lock so you can get into the house but what […]
It is no secret that I love to automate everything. I also get a kick out of being able to deploy anywhere and anytime in a repeatable fashion. Recently, I had a need to deploy JFrog Artifactory as part of a project. In our case, the client is leveraging Artifactory to manage their packages and […]
If you are not familiar with Artifactory by JFrog, then you are definitely missing out. Recently, I had a project where the client had standardized on using Artifactory to maintain all of their binaries, packages, and files. In the case of that project, all the servers were behind a firewall with no direct access to […]
Recently, I have been deep in a project delivery for a long time client. This has been a challenging yet interesting journey. We have gone from nervous new ground to a more comfortable situation to a point where we are moving so fast that it feels more like a bullet train than anything else. During […]
These past few weeks have been quite hectic and interesting. I am working on a very large project to roll Chef out to a major client. Part of the goal is to improve compliance in the environment and by using Chef, we will standardize on the delivery of compliant servers based on the client’s requirements. Recently, […]
On July 5th, Chef announced the first 1.x release of their new flagship management platform – Automate. For those that are unfamiliar, Chef Automate provides several key solutions for Chef environments by providing Pipeline validation of cookbooks, compliance scanning, visibility into the state of Chef runs on the hosts. I have worked with Automate for […]