Terraform, Destroy Provisioners and Pre-Staging Octopus Deploy Tentacle Certificates
At work we've spent the last 12 months or more rebuilding our platform in Terraform. We previously had automation around deploying the VMs themselves (and Puppet »
Slinging Puppet code on Windows
(My) Tools of the Trade If you spend any significant amount of time writing Puppet modules or manifests and adding YAML config data for Hiera, you're »
When is a Fact not a Fact?
When it's sorta wrong. That's when. The :ipaddress fact is one of a bunch of core facts that Facter provides by default. The Facter documentation states »
Azure PaaS Endpoint ACLs Part 1 - Overview
Azure PaaS endpoint ACLs were recently announced to make securing Cloud Services containing Web and Worker Roles easier; prior to this you had to use firewall »
Backing up Site Content from an Azure WebJob
Being from an Ops background, I am generally predisposed to worry about keeping regular backups of stuff. So, before I even started writing this blog, I »