Publications de Sebastian Caceres

Alright, story time fellas. TL;DR; We’re working with Terraform, layering and workspaces. This makes the standard `terraform workspace select x` pretty cumbersome and dangerous. We wrote a Ruby wrapper using Test-Driven Development. It allows us to have a tested, maintainable and efficient solution to the aforementioned issue. You can find the actual project here: https://github.com/sebiwi/terraform-wrapper If you keep reading, we’re going to talk about scripting, Test-Driven Development, Terraform and Ruby.

Alright, here’s what’s up: TL;DR We tried Ansible Container. We’d rather keep using Dockerfiles for image builds: creating a Docker image and provisioning servers with Ansible are two very different things. Different in terms of lifecycle, philosophy and workflow. So different, that in our opinion, they’re not compatible. Wanna know why? Read on. Disclaimer: While the current status of Ansible Container is not clear, it seems that during the writing of this article the tool has been deprecated: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container/commit/2fa778a7c8d1699672314ac0b89c53554f435cb7. After the limitations we noticed, we…

This is another episode of the “The Wizard” series. If you haven’t read the previous episodes, you can find them here and here. You just don’t know how to do it. You’ve been thinking about it for a while too. It’s an important issue. The crafting of the spell is the most important part. The journey is usually more important than the destination itself. But you don’t feel like you are doing it right.

See the previous episode here. He has questions. Nevertheless, he has not yet arrived. And you know you have answers. You interrupt your summoning, and sit down. You can continue in another moment. Everything happens for a reason. You just hope the reason is good. N appears right next to you. Hey, what’s up? I'm setting up the auto-scaling configuration of the new project. Nothing huge. Cool. I need some help. He has progressed immensely since the last time you saw him. People are starting to…

Hey everybody! After reading both the Kubernetes and Docker “How does it work?” series, I guess you can’t wait to transform your old-school infrastructure and put all your applications inside containers. Indeed, containers are a great way to make your applications portable and easy to deploy. Nevertheless, there is a subject we have not discussed yet: data persistence.

̛I had a Slack conversation with some friends from work (B, R and G) the other day. It went somewhat like this: B: “Hey, have you guys ever heard of ARA?” This was followed by 5 minutes of the deafening sound of contextualisation and Google searches by everyone on the channel. R: “Nope, but every piece of technology that could enable Ansible to catch up with PuppetDB/Board would be very much appreciated” G: “Reporting is cheating” (This statement makes way more sense in French) Me:…

Hey there! TL;DR I hacked another thing together, this time in order to install a highly available Docker Swarm cluster on CoreOS (yeah, Container Linux), using Ansible. The whole subject was way too long for a single article. Therefore, I’ve divided it into 5 parts. This is episode 5, regarding the actual implementation of the local cluster’s Worker nodes, using Vagrant, CoreOS and Ansible. If you want to try it: git clone https://github.com/sebiwi/docker-coreos.git cd docker-coreos make up You will need Ansible 2.2+, Docker, Vagrant and…

Hey there! TL;DR I hacked another thing together, this time in order to install a highly available Docker Swarm cluster on CoreOS (yeah, Container Linux), using Ansible. The whole subject was way too long for a single article. Therefore, I’ve divided it into 5 parts. This is episode 4, regarding the actual implementation of the local cluster’s Manager nodes, using Vagrant, CoreOS and Ansible. If you want to try it: git clone https://github.com/sebiwi/docker-coreos.git cd docker-coreos make up   You will need Ansible 2.2+, Docker, Vagrant…