Productivity Tools for Productivity Productivity comes down to the tools you have and how you use them. These are the tools I use on a regular basis. Productivity is about optimisation and efficiency, and
Security Simplify SSH with SSH Config Files Simplify your SSH commands with SSH configuration files. For years I use to SSH into machines the hard way, specifying every argument, every time: ssh -A -p 9898 james@core.
AWS Baking a Rails application into an Immutable Server image Using Packer, systemd and deployment script to build a Rails application into an AMI and launch it into production as a Spot Instance - saving up to 90% of the
AWS Building Infrastructure for Immutable Web Applications with Terraform Explore how to use Application Load Balancers and Target Groups to build core infrastructure for deploying immutable web applications. This post is the next installment in the series on Immutable
AWS Building Immutable Server Images with SaltStack and Packer Building and configuring an immutable server image from the ground up using SaltStack and Packer. I recently set myself a challenge to migrate all of my projects to deploy using
AWS Planning a migration to Spot Instances My plan to save up to 90% on EC2 on-demand pricing by migrating my projects to spot instances which can be terminated with two-minutes notice. A few months ago I
Immutable Servers: Building a deployment pipeline and deploying to EC2 Spot Instances In my first Sheffield DevOps talk I discussed what I've learnt about building Immutable Servers and setting up my projects to run on EC2 Spot Instances. I'
