Chef 14 Upgrade: Change in ValidationFailed error messages when setting required properties (2 mins read).
The updated error message returned by a Chef ValidationFailed error, when you're specifying which properties are required on a custom resource.
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#blogumentation
#chef-14-upgrade
#chef
#chefspec
#chef-14.
Why You Should Be Unit Testing Your Functional Acceptance Tests (7 mins read).
A few reasons explaining why you should be writing unit tests for your functional tests.
by Jamie Tanna
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#persuasive
#testing
#software-testing
#tdd
#bdd
#cucumber
#software-quality
#quality-engineering
#unit-testing.
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Engineers can build applications faster by using tools that abstract away infrastructure. Major cloud providers offer this tooling in the form of functions-as-a-service, as well as managed services such as Google BigQuery or Azure Container Instances. The term “serverless” refers to these functions-as-a-service and the managed services–because when you use these tools, you are not
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 44:35 — 30.7MB) It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, …
by Jamie Tanna
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Viewing X.509 DER Certificate Details with OpenSSL (2 mins read).
How to convert an X.509 DER file to a human-readable format using openssl commands.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#certificates
#command-line
#der
#openssl.
Viewing X.509 PEM Certificate Details with OpenSSL (2 mins read).
How to convert an X.509 PEM file to a human-readable format using openssl commands.
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#blogumentation
#certificates
#command-line
#pem
#openssl.
Backporting/Replaying Changes Using git cherry-pick (6 mins read).
Using git cherry-pick to make it easier to backport or replay Git commits across different versions of your codebase.
Revert 'Some knowledge-sharing news' (5 mins read).
The unfortunate decision to cancel my Packt training courses.
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In this episode, Stephen and Kevin talk about how feasible the 4-hour workweek is them. My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - is OUT NOW from Amazon as a paperback or Kindle ebook. https://geni.us/thepat...
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DevOpsDays London 2018 (51 mins read).
My writeup of my first DevOpsDays conference, and the awesome talks and conversations I was part of.
by Jamie Tanna
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#devopsdays
#aws
#cloud
#devops
#capital-one
#cloud-custodian
#dashboards
#events
#bash
#monolith
#serverless
#management
#agile
#testing
#microservices.
Showing response headers with curl -i (3 mins read).
Showing just response headers when curling a resource, using curl -i.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#curl.