The IT Automation Blog - page 13
Most simple CI pipeline
21 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
When we think about CI pipelines we often have tools like Jenkins, Gitlab or Travis CI in mind. This article will show how we can set up a simple CI pipeline in a shell.
...Back to the future. Travel in time on your shell
20 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
When we write code, we often have it do something based on the current time. Some of my cronjobs suddenly showed a strange behavior in February. I could have prevented this with proper testing.
...IT Automation decreases effectiveness. Do it
19 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
Do you strive to be effective with what you do in your life? Probably yes. So why would it make any sense to commit yourself to IT Automation if it decreases your effectiveness?
...Draw mindmaps in vim
18 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
When we deal with complex IT infrastructures it is important that we are able to visualize it. This holds true not only for IT topics but for our entire lives. For a long time I was searching for an easy tool that would meet my needs. I tried Freemind, VYM, xmind, Libreoffice Draw and drawio and none of them appealed to me. Finally one day I discovered that it was much more easier than I had thought.
...Visualize terraform dependency graph
17 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
Modern cloud infrastructures are composed of multiple small services. That makes it easy to maintain each of them as single distinct units. The downside of this approach is that dependencies can become really complex. Terraform manages these dependencies in a dependency graph.
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