Securely deploying sensitive data with Chef can be achieved through the use of encrypted databags, which can be managed easily with a properly configured knife.rb file. If you’re using Chef as your configuration management solution, you are probably familiar with it’s powerful command line utility, knife, which allows one to interact with the chef server… Continue reading Using Knife and Knife.rb for Managing Databags
Time-Boxing for Success!
One question often asked in interviews is ‘How do you make sure you get things done in your day?’. Time boxing may be your answer! If you’ve ever been asked the interview question, ‘How do you make sure you get things done in your day?’, what they’re really asking you about is your time management… Continue reading Time-Boxing for Success!
Acquia Certified Developer… Check
I took the Acquia Certified Developer test this morning and … PASSED! “Earning Acquia Certifications will gain you visibility and credibility for your experience and expertise and help your organization establish a leadership position within the Drupal community and with Acquia products.” (Acquia Learning Services) Overall, I thought it was a very fair test. The… Continue reading Acquia Certified Developer… Check
Integration Testing with KitchenCI First Steps
When you want to test the integration of your snowflake data into your environments you should consider KitchenCI. You should understand Test Driven Development with RSpec and Chef to such a degree that you have exhausted it as a resource. In that post we created a set of acceptance criteria and tests that support a… Continue reading Integration Testing with KitchenCI First Steps
First Few Weeks at NEWMEDIA
My first few weeks at NEWMEDIA have certainly been exciting! I have been enjoying meeting and collaborating with my new colleagues and getting settled in. The team is very talented and after working here for a few weeks it is no surprise to me that the Denver Business Journal awarded NEWMEDIA as one of the… Continue reading First Few Weeks at NEWMEDIA
DBUG Meetup: Drupal 8 Module Development
On Wednesday, May 14, I will be presenting on Drupal 8 module development at Applied Trust in Boulder. This meetup will focus on Drupal 8 module development. We will begin by discussing some of the new things in Drupal 8, such as OOP and symphony. We will then move into breaking down the elements of… Continue reading DBUG Meetup: Drupal 8 Module Development
Building Base Boxes with Packer
Packer is a powerful tool that enables the creation of identical multi-platform virtual machine images from a definition file. In this article we will discuss how to create base virtual machines for testing and deployment with nmdpacker. One of the bigger challenges we face when working with team based infrastructure management is how to provide… Continue reading Building Base Boxes with Packer
Test Driven Development with RSpec and Chef
Test driven development (TDD) ensures that you’ve properly defined your code’s goals, that your code has achieved these goals, and that future changes to the code will not break existing functionality. Now that we have addressed the fundamental concepts of using Chef data and cookbooks, it’s useful to step through a specific example using the… Continue reading Test Driven Development with RSpec and Chef
Setting Up to Develop with Chef Data and Cookbooks
Think of the chef repo as your snowflake, or the data that makes your organization unique. One of the hardest challenges, at this stage, is keeping the unique pieces of your data contained in such a way that it supports the principles we touched on at the beginning of this series. When you work with… Continue reading Setting Up to Develop with Chef Data and Cookbooks
Sharing a Local Vagrant VM With Other Devices
In Drupal-lamp we usually have a private virtual machine when in development. Under this scenario you can only access the site from the host machine where you spun up. However, there are situations where you would want the vm to be available to other devices on your network. (e.g., testing a site on a mobile… Continue reading Sharing a Local Vagrant VM With Other Devices