Ransomware has become a sufficient threat to warrant a public alert by the US-CERT in March 2016, with an update posted in July 2016. Ransomware is a virus that partially or entirely encrypts a hard drive. The encryption key is then sold to the owner to allow the data to be recovered. One branch of […]
Managing your code in Chef is just as important as managing your application’s source code. Improper management of your cookbooks will almost guarantee mistakes, frustration and even failure. For the sake of this post, I will assume that you will be able to use git as your SCM. So first, we will set up an […]
Recently, I was on a project that required daily backups of an Amazon Web Services server. The Windows 2012 server stored critical company data that had to be available at all times. My team decided to accomplish the backup task by creating snapshots of the volume that was associated with the server on a daily […]
I’m going to take a little turn this month from what I usually post and talk about what many (including myself) consider the ‘more boring’ aspect of testing: test planning. About a month a ago, I participated in a “Hackathon” as part of a proposal effort. To prepare for this, the Coveros team spent some time […]
SourceTree is Awesome! SourceTree is a completely free Git client that is supported by Windows as well as the Mac platform. It features an appealing visual interface between users and Git which can be seen in the below image. I have been using it for about a month now and I have fallen in love with […]
I had a great time talking at AgileDC yesterday afternoon on DevOps in a Regulated and Embedded Environment. Several people asked after the talk for a link to the slides, so I’m making them available on Slideshare. If this topic interests you, please check out my on-going series on the subject. Let me know what […]
Another security conference has come and gone and I surprisingly do not feel the doom and gloom of knowing that my data is being utterly owned. Two of the more interesting talks focused on protecting environments through Powershell and how to thoroughly test applications with more than just limited security automated tools. Defending with Powershell […]
In a typical CI/CD pipeline, code is build, code is deployed, code is tested. In our specific scenario the code is built through Jenkins and maven on a Jenkins build slave, then the build artifacts are uploaded to an artifact repository. Through an Infrastructure-as-code tool, like Chef, the code is deployed to a test environment […]
Here are some slides to an internal talk I gave on the whole embedded DevOps problem. I’ll have a lot more to say on this subject over the next couple of weeks, and at a talk I’ll be giving at AgileDC on October 24, 2016, but hopefully these slides will get you thinking. The key […]
Welcome to the first part of an ongoing series I’m calling DevOps in a Regulated and Embedded Environment. This first part looks at the particular challenges posed by a particular embedded environment. Future posts will dig into the details of how the more interesting problems were solved and what we should have done differently given […]
