If you haven’t already discovered jq, you definitely need to take a look. This nifty little tool is handy for manipulating JSON content at the command line and within scripts. The first quick thing I think will be helpful is showing how to pipe raw JSON output to jq to pretty print it (aka show it in the nice nested view). …
Using the –no-provision directive for Vagrant when resuming machines
It seems that there is an active issue when resuming machines using Vagrant that triggers provisioning scripts on resume and not just when doing the original vagrant up command. EXAMPLE: The issue here is that I already have the build script executed on the original vagrant build of the machine. The scripts may not be idempotent, and could overwrite content …
Downloading Files with cURL, Including Text and Binary Objects
Many orchestration and automation processes will need to download content from external or internal sources over protocols like HTTP and FTP. The simple way to do this is to leverage lightweight, commonly supported and available tools. The most common and popular tool that I’ve found for managing scripting of downloads inside configuration management systems and other script management tools is …
Updating Forked Git Repository from Upstream Source (aka Rebase all the things!)
As you can imagine, the world of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) means that we are going to have to dabble a lot more in the world of code repositories. Git is the most common tool I have found in use for code version control, and along with it, Github.com is the most common place that people (including myself https://github.com/DiscoPosse) store their project …