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My new book, Infrastructure as Code for Beginners, has been released and is available to buy now.

Infrastructure as Code for Beginners is out now

I am pleased to announce that my latest book, “Infrastructure as Code for Beginners,” is now available for purchase. Over the last six months, I have fully dedicated myself to this project, channeling my experience and knowledge into providing a resource that simplifies the complexities of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The importance of IaC cannot be overstated in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. IaC ensures consistent and repeatable deployment of cloud-based services, thereby saving time while delivering robust results. However, understanding and effectively implementing IaC can be a challenge for many, and that’s where this book comes in. ...

Migrating Docker images to GitHub Container Registry with automated workflows. Updates Dockerfiles for each image.

Migrating my Docker images to the GitHub Container Registry

A few weeks after the final draft of the fourth edition of Mastering Docker ↗ was submitted Docker made the announcement that they would be making changes to the retention of images in Docker Hub as well as the introduction of rate limits. These changes make complete sense given that at the time of writing this post there are over 150 million images taking up over 15 PB of storage, of that 10 PB of the images haven’t been accessed in over 6 months and 4.5 PB are associated with free Docker Hub accounts — so removing these inactive images is going to give them a hell of cost-saving. ...

Explore GitHub Codespaces with Terraform for online IDE experience. Easily set up a workspace for infrastructure as code projects using Terraform and Ansible.

GitHub Codespaces and Terraform

I got my invite for GitHub Codespaces the other day and I thought I would have a quick play with it as having an an online IDE sounds like it could come in handy. If you know me — you will know that I am not a developer, but I do a lot of work in Visual Studio Code as that is where I tend to develop work on a lot of the infrastructure as code projects using Terraform and Ansible, as well as Docker projects. ...

Streamline your Git workflow with Russ Mckendrick's tips! Learn how to fork, add remotes, and rebase for maximum efficiency.

Git + Rebase

As you may have noticed, the blog looks different (again). This is because I have moved from Wordpress↗ back to Ghost↗ using their GhostPro↗ offering. One of the things I like about Ghost is the default theme, Casper↗ . While I wanted to keep it there were a few things I wanted to tweak, such as removing the full page header image on main index. When I have previously used Ghost I have forked the theme on GitHub and then manually messed about getting any updates from the original code in. ...