Having a Tinker

TL;DR Using Terraform Outputs, Data Sources and Resource Attributes as inputs rather than statically setting them

Managing a Mac OS X fleet in an enterprise environment using open source tooling

Working with Cloudformation mappings, Conditionals and AWS Certificate Manager

A couple of things I’ve learnt while trying my hand at writing Puppet modules so others hopefully don’t make the same mistakes

Things worth knowing when setting up an AWS Elasticearch cluster, and deciding as to whether it’s the right choice

A small write up on the importance of documentation, and why it most certainly should not be an after thought

How to tackle Sensu checks that require credentials in a secure manner

Configured a very basic test to apply during the build & deploy process through CircleCi

A cheeky write up about how this blog (historically) is deployed to S3 via the use of CircleCi.

While patching the glibc exploit was a ballache, here’s a few positives/learings I’ve taken away from it.