Michael Lihs michaellihs

Jenkins CLI & Hashicorp Vault

Continuous Learning

https://twitter.com/an0xff - weekly cross-team meetings with 3 minute 'daily-style' intro round per person and 1-2 deep dive topics with 30-45min each where people present new things and discuss possibilities to apply/integrate them.
https://twitter.com/paolizq - Coding dojos to increase software craftsmanship and knowledge on programming tools.
- codingdojo.org/kata/ At the beginning you can start with simple katas. It also helps to have people with different skill levels and it is very important when pointing out errors or improvements to not be annoyed, impatient or condescending.
- Basically foster an environment of openness and point out that everyone is there to learn.
https://twitter.com/robert_we - Switching responsibility for components/microservices around a lot, incoming maintainer brings in his new ideas and learns from the implemented stuff while he refractors it.
- https://twitter.com/irnnr - +1, assign people to work on services they don’t know
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DevOps Principles

Motivation: Assembly line

try to get product on the road as fast as possible
every delay costs money
try to identify and eliminate bottlenecks
KPI: lead time

Get List of Jenkins Plugin Licenes

The following script provides you the licences of Jenkins plugins (e.g. for Open Source compliance checks) read from their pom.xml file on the respective Github repository.

Before using the script, you have to

replace your.jenkins.host.com with the domain of your Jenkins server
create a Jenkins API token for your user and put it into ~/.jenkins-api-token

Docker Cheat Sheet

Testing with `goss` and `dgoss`

On the Mac

install goss

Ansible Cheat Sheet

Testing with Ansible

How to keep your Meetups attractive

Summary of the Twitter discussion started by https://twitter.com/kaktusmimi/status/947250255275483137

How do you organize speakers, topics, venues

Boyan Yordanov @specter_bg: I mostly talk to people at our events and a couple others and try to convince them to give speaking a shot. Trough this year pretty much all our speakers were speaking for the first time. For the venue we partner with the local hackerspace.

Go Cheat Sheet

Install Go on Mac

Following the instructions from https://golang.org/doc/install

Download https://golang.org/doc/install?download=go1.13.3.darwin-amd64.pkg
Run installer

	# this configuration requires the vagrant-proxyconf plugin to be installed
	# vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf

	if ENV["http_proxy"].nil?
	abort "\e[31mERROR: you have to set the $http_proxy environment variable\e[0m"
	end

	# (internal) name of Vagrant box
	box_name = "jenkins-agent-ansible"