windows
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The Joy of Automating Deployments (again)
Apr 19, 2021
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1 min read
Previously on the topic of automating deployments I mentioned that we would “likely to be able to perform more regular releases” now we had a streamlined process. Well, it seems that we are indeed performing more regular deployments!
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The Joy of Automating Deployments
Mar 1, 2021
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5 min read
The team I am on at work has recently been on an automation spree. This has stemmed from a disasterous deployment a year ago where things we had tested were broken, things that hadn’t been tested had been deployed and we ultimately ended up rolling the deployment back. A large part of this experience was down to poor code/git hygeine on the part of some members of the development team. But it did hammer home that we needed to change how we were working.
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Getting Vagrant and Ansible working on Windows 10
Nov 1, 2020
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5 min read
One of the big things I have started using both at work and at home is Ansible. It is an automated deployment tool that makes it really easy to create reproducable builds. This means I have needed to figure out a way to test the playbooks I am using to deploy and upgrade servers. Enter Vagrant.