Last week we had our “All hands meeting”, consisting of a video call with all the team members. We use these meetings to report what’s going on here at flugel, to share knowledge, and to define some general guidelines. In this case, it was time to review how we deploy pipelines based on Jenkins. The…
When doing a quick Google search of the keywords “failover meaning”, you will find this definition: “a procedure by which a system automatically transfers control to a duplicate system when it detects a fault or failure.” The definition is perfect, but the concept is broken. Failover is broken. It was ostensibly a good idea years…
Introduction Recently we’ve been asked to help to decide whether a client should move all their deployment cycle to a cloud provider, or keep some parts In-house, specially Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tasks. This gives me the opportunity to think about a broader matter rather than a particular case. Nowadays it is really…
Terraform is a great orchestration tool and SaltStack is great configuration management software. The first one allows you to create resources in the cloud (instances, load balancer, databases, etc) and the second is used to provision the instances. Salt works in a master-agent mode, the agents are called minions. To provision an instance you have…
I’ve just started to test an application from one my clients in CentOS 7. A Python app that runs on Python 2.7 that is the default version in the latest version of CentOS/RHEL. As usual, all the cloud providers don’t configure the swap space by default, so I have to configure Chef to create it…
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