This post was written by Chris O’Dell co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Key Takeaways Take advantage of the Cloud to scale your buildagents to meet development workloads (and save costs by turning them off when not in use Use Packer to build declarative golden images, including with Windows, to reduce handcrafted buildagents DevelopersContinue reading “Using Packer to create Windows AWS AMIs for declarative build agents”
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Scaling the Summit – AWS London Event 2017
This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. The 2017 AWS Summit in London took place on June 28th at the ICC London, ExCeL. Skelton Thatcher Consulting team members were in attendance to check out the latest developments from AWS, and to evaluate the myriad of third party vendor offerings. As expected the event was extremely popular. We arrived atContinue reading “Scaling the Summit – AWS London Event 2017”
ThoughtWorks Tech Radar vol.16 – developer experience, API as a product, CodeScene, per-team CI tools, operability in Spring Cloud
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. At the excellent Agile Manchester conference recently, I picked up a copy of the latest Technology Radar (Vol.16 – March 2017) from our friends at ThoughtWorks. Several things in this version stood out for me, most of which are really about how weContinue reading “ThoughtWorks Tech Radar vol.16 – developer experience, API as a product, CodeScene, per-team CI tools, operability in Spring Cloud”
Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 6) – Creating and deploying custom catalog items for GoCD
This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. This is the sixth post in an on-going series exploring Rancher Server deployment, configuration and extended use. In the last post I detailed how to automate the deployment of AWS infrastructure and Rancher with Terraform. In this post we look at creating custom catalog items for GoCD using docker-compose and rancher-compose. WeContinue reading “Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 6) – Creating and deploying custom catalog items for GoCD”
Architectural and service considerations with AWS multi region design (Part 1) – Pilot Light
This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. The recent AWS service outage has renewed interest for enhanced resilience, particularly multi-region design. In this series of posts we explore considerations when designing and deploying multi-region architectures in AWS. Working knowledge of AWS is assumed, along with an awareness of n-tier architectures and DNS concepts.
Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 5) – Automating the deployment of AWS infrastructure and Rancher with Terraform
This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. This is the fifth post in an on-going series exploring Rancher Server deployment, configuration and extended use. In the last post I detailed how to deploy and manage containerised GoCD continuous delivery using Rancher. In this post we look at automating deployment of Rancher and the supporting AWS components using Terraform. TerraformContinue reading “Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 5) – Automating the deployment of AWS infrastructure and Rancher with Terraform”
Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 4) – Deploying and Managing Containerised GoCD Continuous Delivery
This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. This is the fourth post in an on-going series exploring Rancher Server deployment, configuration and extended use. In the last post I detailed how to add an extra level of HA by configuring an AWS EFS volume for shared storage and mounting it using the Rancher-NFS service. In this post we focus onContinue reading “Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 4) – Deploying and Managing Containerised GoCD Continuous Delivery”
Migrating Infrastructure to the Cloud using AWS and Chef
This is a guest post from Kamalika Majumder, an Independent Cloud and DevOps Consultant and founder of CloudKata (previously Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks). For the past seven odd years, she has been helping enterprise customers apply DevOps practices and culture in their organisations and have also been helping them go to Cloud securely with scale. YouContinue reading “Migrating Infrastructure to the Cloud using AWS and Chef”
Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 3) – AWS EFS mounts using Rancher-NFS
This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. This is the third post in an on-going series exploring Rancher Server deployment, configuration and extended use. In the last post I detailed how to implement single node resilience in AWS for Rancher Server. In this post, we will add an extra level of HA by configuring an AWS EFS volume forContinue reading “Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 3) – AWS EFS mounts using Rancher-NFS”
Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 2) – Single Node Resilience in AWS
This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. This is the second post in an on-going series exploring Rancher Server deployment, configuration and extended use. In the first post I detailed how to launch a local development environment using Vagrant and VirtualBox. In this post, we will look at how to deploy Rancher Server for single node resilience in AWS. ContentContinue reading “Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 2) – Single Node Resilience in AWS”
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