Been playing with Docker↗ again this weekend, this time rather than just doing for the sake of doing it I went for something a little more stable. I started off by creating a new DigitalOcean↗ droplet with the latest CentOS installed to run as a base. I then installed docker using the Docker Puppet Module↗ . So now I had Docker installed now what? I looked at some PaaS services, a bulk of them require Ubuntu (which I simply don’t do on servers), however Shipyard↗ looked good. It was simple to install; ...

As part of work I have to install Magento with its sample data a lot for proof of concepts, while the installation is simple it can quickly become a chore. Because of this I have started to use n98-magerun↗ . It can be installed using the following commands; Quick Magento Installation 1/2 curl -o n98-magerun.phar https://raw.github.com/netz98/n98-magerun/master/n98-magerun.phar chmod +x ./n98-magerun.phar cp ./n98-magerun.phar /usr/local/bin/ n98-magerun.phar self-update Once installed you can do clean installation by running the following command where you would like Magento to be installed; ...

I have been playing my Digital Ocean↗ server a lot recently. Breaking it, fixing it and then rebuilding it, while I had documented my puppet installation it was getting to be a pain to copy and paste with each rebuild, so I pulled together a few scripts↗ from various sources to make the rebuilds a little less of a chore. To install fresh Puppet Master all I need to do now is run the following command; ...

Been playing a little with Docker↗ this afternoon, while its something I have been aware for a while its not something I have really looked into. As I prefer working with CentOS rather than Ubuntu its taken me a while to get the motivation to do any more than some reading, however as the latest version now runs on RHE compatible Docker 1/4 yum install http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm yum -y install docker-io service docker start chkconfig docker on Once the services are installed pull down some images to test with; ...

Had a go at converting a mostly static but dynamically rendered site to use Jekyll yesterday, it was a lot more straight forward than I thought it was going to be. As part of the conversion I needed to display the first post differently, after consulting the all knowing Google I settled on the following method; Jekyll Snippets 1/3 {% for post in site.posts offset: 0 limit: 1 %} <div class="some-style"> <a href="{{post.url}}"> <h3 class='news-title'>{{ post.title }}</h3> <span class='news-date'>{{ post.date | date_to_string }}</span> </a> <p>{{ page.excerpt }} <a href='{{post.url}}'><span class='read-more'> Read more</span></a></p> </div> {% endfor %} ...

Vagrant allows developers to bring up local development machines in a controlled method using pre-built configuration files called boxes. Once a box has been installed on the developers local machine it can be powered on with the following command; Vagrant & Puppet 1/2 vagrant up When the box is brought up it automatically provisions itself using a number of provisioners including Puppet, this means that the production deployment scripts can also be run on local development copies of the instances. The instances on the local machines are powered by Virtualbox and there Windows, Linux and Mac versions of Vagrant. ...

Keeping up the yearly tradition here is what I have been listing to in 2013 …. Monster Magnet — Last Patrol↗ David Bowie — The Next Day↗ Coheed and Cambria — The Afterman: Descension↗ Gary Numan — Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind)↗ Gregory Porter — Liquid Spirit↗ Clutch — Earth Rocker↗ Public Service Broadcasting — Inform — Educate — Entertain↗ How to Destroy Angels — Welcome Oblivion↗ Sigur Rós — Kveikur↗ Katatonia — Dethroned & Uncrowned↗ The Temperance Movement — The Temperance Movement↗

I am trying to streamline my workflow at the moment. Currently on the Mac these are; StormSSH↗ — Key Managment Vagrant↗ — Local Server testing Packer↗ — Build Machine Images SublimeText↗ — Text Editor Z↗ — Jump around the CLI Le-git↗ — Adds some GIT features Git Tower↗ — GUI for GIT Home Brew↗ — Install “missing” stuff and on my servers; ...