Jenkins Slave on Windows Prep
While not sexy we have a product that is officially supported on Windows and uses SQL server so in order to expand our Windows CI efforts we need to add lots...
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Redis High Availability Options
This article outlines the various Redis HA options and the tradeoffs between them as well as touching how service discovery might be used. There are two main...
Chefspec Basics - Initial notes
This post sums up the various aspects of writing Chefspec tests so that when I forget I can quick check here. Hopefully this will be of use to others. All e...
Rundeck - Authentication and Authorisation Notes
Rundeck has a powerful authentication and authorisation infrastructure making it suitable for use in organisations with many different teams. For example the...
Docker with Test Kitchen Notes
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