One of the things that I’ve done lately is to ensure that I keep my laptop clean of any development tools. The reason is that I have run into a lot of problems with conflicts around versions, platforms, and general oddities that come as I deploy more and more different environments onto a single machine. … Read more
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 … Read more
With the release of Docker Datacenter, it seemed like a good idea to kick the tires on this new system to get a handle on what the experience is like installing, configuring, and managing the new packaged Docker offering. There are a few pre-requisites that you have to get sorted out which include: Base system … Read more
In order to bring some of the real rock stars in the community into a new venue to share information, I’ve started up a new podcast. In conjunction with the Green Circle Community that I contribute to with Turbonomic, I’m very proud to bring an exiting new open community podcast with GC On-Demand. Community Focus … Read more