Ansible for Webapps
I’ve been using Ansible more and more. It is a really great way to manage server configuration. As I’ve transitioned away from Chef, I’ve been working on est...
Recent Posts
Goodbye Ghost
Just over 2 years ago I relaunched and moved to Ghost. At the time, my reasoning was simple:
Elixir and Codeship Presentation
Recently posted on my main webpage in the other section, is a PDF of a presentation I gave at the Baltimore Elixir and Erlang Meetup. I covered how I got a s...
Elixir, Ansible, and Credo
Recently posted on my main webpage in the other section, are PDFs of presentations I gave at the Baltimore Elixir and Erlang Meetup. I’m really enjoying work...
Giving Ansible a Shot
The other day I quit working with one of my Chef repositories for some servers I manage. I quit in rage. I quit because nothing worked how I wanted it to.
Presentation on HTTP
Just posted on my main webpage in the other section, a PDF of a presentation I gave during lunch at work.
Understanding Your Configuration
I believe that it is best to understand the configuration and behavior of the tools I use. I don’t appreciate a ‘black box’ approach to technology. I’ve alwa...
Presentation on Dot Files Configuration
Just posted on my main webpage in the other section, a PDF of a presentation I gave at lunch one day at work.
Flexible Maintenance Mode via nginx Proxy
There is a common pattern I’ve seen, in guides about Ruby on Rails deployment via Capistrano, to setup a maintenance pages or a maintenance mode. The guides ...
Basic and Simple Disaster Recovery with sshkit
It is easy to create a hugely complex disaster recovery plan with all kinds of redundancy and failover. It is also easy to spend a ton of money doing so. The...