Lee Jones leejones

Auto-enable Local HTTP Caching in Test Kitchen

Note: total experiment and hack, looks nasty, could be awesome:

Setup

Drop the kitchen.local.yml into $HOME/.kitchen/config.yml
Install polipo (with Mac: brew install polipo, with Ubuntu: apt-get install polipo)
Drop polipo-start and polipo-console somewhere useful (perhaps $HOME/bin?)

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

@holman got a request about our deployment system, heaven

I know it's not a high priority, but has there been any activity on open-sourcing the core Heaven gem?

There is. I've been working on extracting the non-GitHub specific parts into two gems. This first is a CLI portion called hades. The second is an HTTP API portion called heaven.

When you open source something previously used as in internal tool like Heaven, Hubot, Boxen, etc., how do you manage and hook in the parts that need to stay internal?

Normally I focus around four questions:

This is a little trick I use to spin up the packages instalation on Debian/Ubuntu boxes in Vagrant.

I add a simple function that checks if a directory named something similar to ~/.vagrant.d/cache/apt/opscode-ubuntu-12.04/partial (it may have another path in Windows or MacOS) and create the directory if it doesn't already exist.

def local_cache(box_name)
  cache_dir = File.join(File.expand_path(Vagrant::Environment::DEFAULT_HOME),
                        'cache',
                        'apt',
                        box_name)

This is a little trick I use to spin up the packages instalation on Debian/Ubuntu boxes in Vagrant.

I add a simple function that checks if a directory named something similar to ~/.vagrant.d/cache/apt/opscode-ubuntu-12.04/partial (it may have another path in Windows or MacOS) and create the directory if it doesn't already exist.

def local_cache(basebox_name)
  cache_dir = Vagrant::Environment.new.home_path.join('cache', 'apt', basebox_name)
  partial_dir = cache_dir.join('partial')
  partial_dir.mkdir unless partial_dir.exist?
 cache_dir

In a perfect world, where things are done well, not just quickly, I would expect to find the following when joining the company:

Documentation

Accurate / up-to-date systems architecture diagram
Accurate / up-to-date network diagram
Out-of-hours support plan
Incident management plan

	###################################################
	##
	## Alertmanager YAML configuration for routing.
	##
	## Will route alerts with a code_owner label to the slack-code-owners receiver
	## configured above, but will continue processing them to send to both a
	## central Slack channel (slack-monitoring) and PagerDuty receivers
	## (pd-warning and pd-critical)
	##

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# HAProxy wrapper to make reloads safer
	#
	# THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY DISTRIBUTED BY PUPPET. ANY LOCAL CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN!

	HAPROXY_DIR=/etc/haproxy
	HAPROXY_BIN=/usr/sbin/haproxy

	check() {

Lee Jones leejones

Auto-enable Local HTTP Caching in Test Kitchen

Setup

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

The Worker Pattern

Contents

Introduction