Ruby Stuff
Writing plugins to wrap a command in mcollective is very easy. What is difficult is figuring out all of the conventions that you need to follow. I’m going to walk you through an example with some tips. Conventions you need to follow 1) Agents need to go in the agent Read more…
Continuing from Part 1 Build gems! It’s not that hard and your efforts will be rewarded. Here are my arguments for learning packaging What’s running on your system now? When you’re running hundreds of servers you need a programatic way of auditing what is running on your system. Read more…
“Push button deploy” is something that is often hear people requesting or mentioning as something they would like to have. What’s more important, in my opinion, is to provide a reliable and scalable system for both internal and external developers to deploy code to the staging environment for clients to Read more…
When testing web applications, it is often necessary to rewrite DNS entries to avoid XSS Javascript warnings. Building on Rubydns my company has open sourced a quick ruby script to easily rewrite DNS queries for web testing Available on Github
Having a dashboard to provide real time data to users helps minimize interruptions at work. The combination of Sinatra handling the incoming HTTP requests and Mcollective pulling real time data from the infrastructure provides the responsiveness and self-service that saves everyone time and effort. The example code is available on Read more…