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  • Operational Excellence Means Automation

    Apr 2, 2019 automation aws cloudformation devops infrastructure-as-code operational-excellence

    People use the term “operational excellence” in a lot of different ways. In its vaguest sense, it means continuous improvement as applied to operations. But you’re interested in what it means in the context of technology operations. And I’m here to tell you that it means automation. Operational Excellence is one of the …

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  • Using AWS Systems Manager to Upgrade WordPress

    Mar 19, 2019 automation aws devops wordpress

    After years of manually upgrading my self-hosted WordPress installation, I decided it was finally time to apply some devops principles (namely automation) to this process. I decided to use AWS Systems Manager (aka SSM). I started out by creating the following Command Document (which happens to be in YAML format because …

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  • Visual Studio Code as a PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment

    Aug 15, 2017 aws cloud devops linux PowerShell scripting windows

    I know what you’re thinking. “Why use Visual Studio Code instead of the PowerShell ISE?” Well, if you’re using Mac OS or Linux, you don’t have the option to use the PowerShell ISE natively. And that’s a problem if you want to take advantage of the cross-platform capabilities of PowerShell Core. In this article, I’ll …

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  • Building Windows Server with Puppet and Chocolatey

    May 5, 2015 cloud configuration-management devops puppet windows-server

    Forget using scripts and group policies to configure a new Windows Server machine. Using Chocolatey and Puppet, you can do it faster & easier than ever (and it’s more fun too). This is especially true if you’re using a Server Core installation and don’t have a GUI to help you along. Oh, and if you don’t know …

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