I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures a few brief moments over the course of my career. The first time was when he worked for eBay and I worked for IBM and we were doing a GPFS proof of concept. He was a really nice person (and still is!) and introduced me…
Category: Agile
Drone Secrets
I was really happy to see the Drone Secret’s page describe how to put secrets in a .drone.yml file. Checking passwords into repositories is a big no-no. Still, there were some clarity in the docs I would have liked. Here’s step by step. 1. Install drone Yep. This is the mac client. I did the…
It’s just lube
When looking to optimize your application deployment cycle organizations often turn to buzzwords such as: CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), DevOps and invariably the different products/projects they’ve heard of that do this. In this buzzword blitz its a bit easy to get confused as to what does what. Today we are hearing: Jenkins, Kubernetes, Mesos, Ansible,…