devops
DevOps Best Practices: Managing Repository Configuration
You can't just say "we do DevOps" anymore. If DevOps best practices aren't followed, teams inevitably waste the potential gains that DevOps practices enable, and infrastructure problems still aren't...
Automating CI/CD Website Deployments with BitOps
A common challenge for any established website or application is migrating to a cloud-based provider. When hardware is too old, paid dedicated hosting plans are no longer cost effective, or the...
How to Deploy a HeyEmoji Slack App to AWS using Terraform
HeyEmoji is a fantastic reward system teams can use to recognize each other's accomplishments, dedication, and hard work. Once you get it set up, you can mention a colleague's Slack username in any...
DevOps Automation using StackStorm - BitOps Secrets Management
In a recent series of blog posts, I drew up how to go from a basic StackStorm installation and pack deployed using Ansible, to moving that entire custom deployment to a one-touch cloud deployment...
Using Declarative Infrastructure to Deploy an EKS Cluster and Helm Chart
We're going to create an operations repo that creates and manages an AWS EKS cluster using Terraform and deploys a Helm chart to the cluster. We'll use BitOps to orchestrate this whole process.
DevOps Automation using StackStorm - Cloud Deployment via BitOps
Last time, we had refactored our basic one-line install of StackStorm and our custom pack into an Ansible playbook. The Ansible playbook works well enough on its own but still requires us to already...
DevOps Automation using StackStorm - Deploying with Ansible
This is the second part in a StackStorm tutorial series: Part 1: DevOps Automation using StackStorm - Getting Started Part 2: DevOps Automation using StackStorm- Deploying with Ansible Part 3: DevOps...
Combine Terraform and Ansible to Provision and Configure a Web Server
Terraform is one of the best tools for provisioning cloud infrastructure, but when working with virtual machines lacks good support for SSH'ing on to the server to configure it. This is where Ansible...
DevOps Automation using StackStorm - Getting Started Guide
Event driven DevOps automation is a concept based around listening for desired events and then performing a task in response. There are a wide variety of applications for the event driven 'cause and...
BitOps + Terraform
BitOps works well with different deployment tools and today’s focus is on Terraform. By the end of this you will have used BitOps to create a prod and test AWS VPC.
8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation
In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients. Also, if it’s your first time documenting code, it can be difficult...
Envato Tuts + Article
The Key to Building Large JavaScript Apps: The Modlet Workflow
You're a developer working on a "large JavaScript application" and you've noticed some issues on your project. New team members struggle to find where everything is located...
CSS-Tricks Article
Streaming Data with Fetch() and NDJSON
Streams are trickling into the scene as we search for ways to improve performance. What if instead of waiting for our entire ajax response to complete, we could start showing...
David Walsh Blog Article
Free Web App Checklist
We use a set of checklists to keep us on track and ensure reproducible quality on every project.
