Grief
I realized something recently. I am undergoing profound work-related grief.
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On To New Adventures
Well that didn’t go as expected, I said on June 14th. “That” was a meeting I had with my manager at Sym. He scheduled the meeting to tell me they were letting me go, and my last day would be that Friday, the 18th.
Hello, Sym
As you probably know, Friday, January 29 was my last day with Chef/Progress. Many people have asked what I’m going to do next. If the title of this post isn’t obvious, I’m happy to announce that I will start a new position as the Head of Community and Support at Sym on Monday, February 1st.
ChefFriends and HugOps
“It is done,” he tweeted. Today is my last day at Chef/Progress. This is a journey nearly 13 years in the making, and what a journey it has been.
New Blog Who Dis?
Hello there, traveler! It’s been awhile, hasn’t it, since I updated this page?
Quick Tip: Alternative Chef Shell With Pry
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Quick Tip: Stubbing Library Helpers in ChefSpec
I’m currently updating my vagrant cookbook, and adding ChefSpec coverage. Each of the different platform recipes results in slightly different resources to download the package file and install it. To support this, I have helper methods that calculate the download URI, the package name, and the SHA256 checksum based on the version of Vagrant (node['vagrant']['version']), and the platform…
Quick Tip: Policyfile Run Lists
As I indicated on Twitter earlier tonight, I’m working with the new Policyfile feature of ChefDK. While converting my personal systems’ repository to use Policyfile instead of roles, I found myself writing this Policyfile:
Quick Tip: ChefDK Provision
Earlier today, ChefDK 0.6.0 was released. In this post, I will illustrate a fairly simple walkthrough using Amazon EC2, based on information in the document. This example will include Policyfile use, too. Let’s get started.
Chef Audit Mode Introduction
I’ve started working with the audit mode feature introduced in Chef version 12.1.0. Audit mode allows users to write custom rules (controls) in Chef recipes using new DSL helpers. In his ChefConf 2015 talk, “Compliance At Velocity,” James Casey goes into more of the background and reasoning for this. For now, I wanted to share a few tips with users who may be experimenting with this feature on…