DevOps How to get GitLab Runner to push a Git Tag Some thoughts on getting a Gitlab Runner to deploy tags back to a remote.
DevOps How to configure Nginx to load balance between multiple Docker containers A brief exploration of using Nginx as a load balancer for multiple docker containers.
DevOps Next Version I created a Node.js based Command Line Interface tool for creating and updating a Node Projects Version.
DevOps How to make GIT ignore future changes to a committed file. A quick command to tell Git to ignore future changes to a tracked file.
DevOps Script to Close a Port on MacOS A very handy Bash alias for web developers to close an open port on macOS.
DevOps Ping Redis without CURL or NC I found this little snippet on Stack Overflow which allowed me to check the Redis connection from inside my container.
DevOps High Availability Redis Session with Express Recently we have needed update our session solution with Redis to use Redis as a cluster, increasing the availability of our sites in the event that we have to cycle our Redis servers.
DevOps How to make macOS remember my ssh password You can follow these steps to mimic the older functionality of macOS remembering your password between sessions and restarts.
DevOps Helpful Docker Scripts I am doing a lot of docker experiments today and needed a few scripts for cleaning up.
DevOps Giving a Presentation with Git Commits recently I have been creating and giving presentations on how to use certain technologies. Event expanding some to be more like workshops.I decided that rather than writing all my code on the
DevOps What's my IP Address I have recently been giving a new 15inch MacBook Pro by the office, and have spent a fair bit of time moving things over from a MacMini to it to be my new
Web Development Human Readable Code I have recently spent a great deal of time reviewing code from external developers. Some of it is good, some of it is rough, some of it makes my head hurt. Ultimately, if
DevOps Cherry-Pick with Git Sometimes things don't quite work out as planned. Okies, lets be honest, Most of the time things don't work out as planned from the start. But with a proper workflow, this is not
DevOps Some Thoughts on Setting Up a Workflow A key component to DevOps is setting up and maintaining a workflow for developers. It's not all about automation and statistics. Having a development background comes in nice and handy, but system operations
Web Development As a general rule when programming... Today I received a request to production to resolve a but where a form would break if an invalid country code was passed in as part of an address.The solution that was
DevOps I am learning to love VI I will admit that in my early developer days, that I was extremely resistant to doing anything command line. My thought was that we lived in an age where we could easily make
DevOps Step by Step Install of Graphite with Carbon and StatsD on CentOS 7.1.x Recently, we started to build our own Graphite StatsD Server. We tried following a couple of step by step guides, but all them were seeming out of date. And we encountered several errors,
DevOps The Power of Statistics Over the past couple of weeks I have been exploring Application Monitoring tools which has resulting in me playing with StatsD and Graphite. I quickly found a Docker Container, and plugged in an
DevOps NGINX Location Rewrite with my change over to the Ghost Blogging platform from my own custom engine, I had one major problem.The URL's from my old blog did not directly match the URL's of the
Web Development Testing Middleware Recently I wrote a small custom piece of middleware for an express application to consume on its requests. It takes a query parameter and reworks it for later use in the event loop.
DevOps What is DevOps Several Months ago, I attended a conference in Toronto called DevOpsDays. The purpose is like any other technical conference, a means to get like minded individuals together and to share new ideas. In
