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 … Read more

Who has a conference? Everyone DOES! – DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014

It seems sometimes that we have a lot of conferences happening. This is a good sign for the strength of the technology sector, and the size of the audience who is prepared to consume this content. As a massive fan of DevOps and the great community wrapped around it, I was very happy to watch … Read more

Yes Virginia, There is an Open Source .NET

Beyond the awesomeness of seeing the Rosetta touch down onto a comet today, we also saw a shift in the universe that some say would never have come. Microsoft has announced that they are doing some thing big with their popular .NET platform by taking it open source and expanding to run on Linux and … Read more

Starting with Vagrant and VirtualBox: A Basic Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server

As a part of my #vDM30in30 post series, I’ve got some lab work that we will be doing together. This is the start which will be the foundation for the next set of posts that work with Vagrant and VirtualBox. We are about to go on an adventure together! Using Vagrant is becoming a standard … Read more