Category: DevOps

Episode Followup – Intro to CI/CD with Python presented by Chris Arceneaux

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Chris Arceneaux (@chris_arceneaux) continues our Python For DevOps series and discusses how to use the CI/CD platforms Travis CI & Gitlab Resources: https://www.arsano.ninja/ https://github.com/carceneaux/travis-ci-python-demo https://github.com/carceneaux/gitlab-ci-python-demo *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT
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VMware Infrastructure as Code with Brett Johnson (@brettjohnson008)

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Brett Johnson introduces the concept of infrastructure as code, CD/CD pipeline, and Git best practices. Git Resources: Commitmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlY_hqvCmqY&list=PL2rC-8e38bUXloBOYChAl0EcbbuVjbE3t Git Documentation: https://git-scm.com/doc

VMware and Terraform Infrastructure as Code with Grant Orchard (@grantorchard)

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https://youtu.be/ag36WCKrq5g Grant Orchard demonstrates using Terraform to deploy VMware VMs as code. He starts simple then introduces variables and shows how to deploy a complete application stack leveraging Terraform modules. Check out Grant’s blog series at https://grantorchard.com/infrastructure-as-code-vsphere-admin-part1/ Follow Grant on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/GrantOrchard 3:00 – Brief introduction to Terraform 16:00 – Dependency Resolution/graphviz 19:00 –
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vBrownBag Follow-Up Lessons Learned Writing the DevOps Handbook w Gene Kim (@realgenekim)

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Gene Kim joins the vBrownBag to discuss the leasons learned while writing the DevOps Handbook. Top Lessons Learned Since The Phoenix Project, Researching And Writing The DevOps Handbook Video Guest: Gene Kim Twitter: @realgenekim Show Notes: – DevOps Handbook Stats (2:00) – High performance teams out pace others w lower failure rate (3:15) – High
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vBrownBag Follow-Up Git Ops in Shape for DevOps w Taylor Riggan (@triggan)

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Taylor Riggan (@triggan on Twitter) kicks off Commitmas 3 with how to get ops people on board with DevOps and how Git can help them in their day to day jobs. Git Ops in Shape for DevOps Video Show notes: – Handy git cheat sheet – Base commands to learn in git – On premises
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Impostor Syndrome – A Tech Trivia Game Show

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We had a few openings for VMworld Europe Tech Talks this year, so I had a couple of drinks and got to thinking. I’ve been playing around with the idea of doing a tech trivia podcast for a while now, but I kept making excuses of why I wouldn’t be good enough to get it
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up OpenCrowbar with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle)

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Rob Hirschfeld, founder of RackN, talks about using OpenCrowbar for system deployments. OpenCrowbar Video You can follow Rob on Twitter @zehicle and his blog http://robhirschfeld.com.  To find out more about OpenCrowbar go to http://crowbar.github.io/home.html Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Continuous Integration for Networking with Matt Oswalt (@Mierdin)

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Matt Oswalt explains how Continuous Integration can be used beyond traditional development purposes, to support changes in configurations for network equipment leveraging tools like Ansible. Continuous Integration for Networking Video You can find Matt on Twitter @Mierdin and his blog http://keepingitclassless.net. Examples and presentation materials from this episode can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/Mierdin/ci-networks
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up ELK with Larry Smith (@mrlesmithjr)

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Larry Smith shows you how to leverage elastisearch, logstash, and kibana to create a robust syslog solution. ELK Video You can find Larry on Twitter @mrlesmithjr and his blog http://everythingshouldbevirtual.com/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Provision VM’s in vCenter using Ansible w Jonathan Frappier (@jfrappier)

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#vBrownBag crew member Jonathan Frappier demos using Ansible to provision virtual machines to vCenter. Ansible supports creating, cloning, and reconfiguring virtual machines in vCenter. Example playbooks can be found at www.virtxpert.com & github. Note that this demo was done with Ansible 1.9 prior to its official release. Ansible & vCenter Video You can follow Jonathan on
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Docker and Friends with Scott Lowe (@scott_lowe)

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Scott Lowe follows up on the Introduction to Docker by James Turnbull (@kartar http://bit.ly/vbbKartar) and shows how to use Docker on CoreOS, Docker with Heat used in OpenStack based cloud providers and wraps up using Docker on CoreOS with fleet. Docker Video You can follow Scott on Twitter @scott_lowe, and his blog http://blog.scottlowe.org/ where he
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Introduction to Docker with James Turnbull (@kartar)

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James Turnbull, author of The Docker Book, joins the #vBrownBag DevOps series to provide an introduction to Docker. Docker Video You can follow James on Twitter @kartar and his blog kartar.net Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Setting up network services using Puppet with Rob Nelson (@rnelson0)

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Rob Nelson joins the #vBrownBag DevOps series to talk about his PuppetInABox project, a curated collection of forge modules and user repositories. This solution includes everything required to provide puppet, puppetdb, r10k, dns, dhcp, a yum repository, and a build server. The only thing you need to provide is a gateway device and you have
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Continuous Integration using Jenkins with Mike Marseglia (@mmars)

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Mike Marseglia hops on the #vBrownBag DevOps series to kick start your continuous integration journey with an overview and demo of Jenkins. Continuous Integration with Jenkins Video You can find Mike on Twitter @mmars Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and
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OpenStack LumberJack – Part 2 Services & Remote Logging

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OpenStack Lumberjack – Part 2 OpenStack Services Configuring OpenStack for Remote Logging Logging for OpenStack has come quite a ways. What I’m going to attempt to do over a few posts, is recreate and expand a bit on what was discussed at this last OpenStack Summit with regard to Log Management and Mining in OpenStack.
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A Bit Deeper With PuppetLabs-Grizzly

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Let’s go a bit further down the PuppetLabs-Grizzly rabbit hole. We talked quite extensively about these on the #vBrownBag, but some of them need a bit further explanation here. Background PuppetLabs/Grizzly is a ‘new’ (new is a relative thing on the internets, and depending on when you find this post, it may not be so
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[Update] Vagrant, Puppet, OpenStack

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Recently, Puppet Labs released an “Grizzly” module, based on their work with the Puppet Labs OpenStack module, that takes a more role based approach. That is, it breaks out things like controller, compute, and storage. It also combines them with Hiera in a much more elegant way than before. I covered using Puppet and Hiera
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Closing Some Open Tabs – Ruby, etc

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Here are these things in case I need to find them again: A link_to helper for Sinatrahttp://ididitmyway.herokuapp.com/past/2010/4/25/sinatra_helpers/ A flash[:something] gem for Sinatrahttps://github.com/SFEley/sinatra-flash OmniAuth for rails / rubyhttp://railsapps.github.io/tutorial-rails-mongoid-omniauth.html Twitter auth in Sinatrahttp://www.sitepoint.com/twitter-authentication-in-sinatra/