Setting your default AWS profile for the AWS CLI and SDKs
Setting the default AWS profile when working with multiple profiles and the AWS CLI / SDKs.
I'm a Software Quality Engineer with a passion for backend engineering, especially with regard to APIs and automation. I've been building up my experience working in a DevOps environment as a Software Development Engineer and am now diving into the details of how we prove out the quality in our software. I use my site as a method of blogging about my learnings, as well as sharing information about projects I have previously, or are currently, working on in my spare time.
I'm a GNU/Linux user, a big advocate for the Free Software Movement, and I try to self host my own services where possible, instead of relying on other providers.
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Chef 14 Upgrade: Custom Resource Properties are Silently Coerced to `Hash` if they are a `nil`
Finding out that a nil gets silently coerced to an empty Hash if given to a custom resource's property of type Hash.
Chef 14: ChefSpec Coverage Reporting Deprecation
Noting the deprecation of using ChefSpec::Coverage.start! when using Chef 14 and above.
Chef 14 Upgrade: Change in `ValidationFailed` error messages when setting `required` properties
The updated error message returned by a Chef ValidationFailed error, when you're specifying which properties are required on a custom resource.
Why You Should Be Unit Testing Your Functional Acceptance Tests
A few reasons explaining why you should be writing unit tests for your functional tests.
Viewing X.509 PEM Certificate Details with OpenSSL
How to convert an X.509 PEM file to a human-readable format using openssl commands.
Viewing X.509 DER Certificate Details with OpenSSL
How to convert an X.509 DER file to a human-readable format using openssl commands.
Revert 'Some knowledge-sharing news'
The unfortunate decision to cancel my Packt training courses.
Backporting/Replaying Changes Using `git cherry-pick`
Using git cherry-pick to make it easier to backport or replay Git commits across different versions of your codebase.
DevOpsDays London 2018
My writeup of my first DevOpsDays conference, and the awesome talks and conversations I was part of.
Talks and Workshops
I have a number of talks and workshops that I have done previously, and am open to do.
Projects
I also have a number of projects I've documented on my projects page.