Productivity & automation tools can be powerful. I was delighted to come across a recent thread on Hacker News discussing a supercharged automation tool: Huginn. This open-source software performs automated tasks by using ‘agents’ to watch for ‘event... (more…)

So Docker is buzzword. If you’ve been in the industry long enough you know how dangerous buzzwords can be, not because there’s not actual value in what they promote, but the risk of inv… (more…)

Common docker deployment pitfalls and how to mitigate them when deploying a container to infrastructure you control. (more…)

I have discussed this slightly before, however, some background may be necessary. I build a relatively well used Docker container with Ansible. Originally this was all based on Python 2 which was the default Python that is installed with most operating sy... (more…)

The other day I had a conversation with a Operations Engineer who made a bold statement: "Sending us a docker container is not different from sending us a .deb package" I do not agree with that statement at all but didn't have the time to counter it, so ... (more…)