Running service resources in Kitchen-Docker (3 mins read).
How to get up and running with service resources when running Test Kitchen with the Docker driver, in this example for use with GitLab CI.
by 
Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#chef
#kitchen
#docker
#howto.
Trusting Self-Signed Certificates from the Chef Development Kit (2 mins read).
How to get the ChefDK (and associated tools) to trust internal / self-signed certificates, in an easy oneliner.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#chef
#chefdk
#certificates
#berkshelf.
Getting around Permission Denied when running ChefSpec (3 mins read).
How to handle getting an EACCES when trying to run ChefSpec on a recipe.
GitLab Review Apps with Capistrano and Nginx (4 mins read).
Spinning up a version of your application on every push, so others don't have to manually get the code up and running locally.
by Jamie Tanna
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#guide
#gitlab
#review-apps
#capistrano
#blogumentation.
Testing include_recipes with Chef and ChefSpec (2 mins read).
How to best test include_recipes within your Chef recipes, as well as how to ensure that you aren't running any dependent recipes in your tests.
Blogumentation - Writing Blog Posts as a Method of Documentation (4 mins read).
Why I'm starting to use blog posts as a form of documentation, and why I think they're so well suited.
Converting YAML to JSON and vice versa (Part 1 - Ruby) (2 mins read).
Coerce YAML to JSON and vice versa, from the comfort of your Gem-studded command line.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#ruby
#command-line
#yaml
#json.
Clean up your Git branches (3 mins read).
Remove any merged local or branches from your local Git repository.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#git.
Pretty Printing JSON on the Command Line with Python (2 mins read).
Using Python's JSON module to pretty print JSON objects from the command line.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#python
#json
#pretty-print.
Viewing your diff while writing your commits with git commit --verbose (3 mins read).
Making it easier to write commit messages by having the diff in your editor.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#git
#commit
#shell
#workflow.
Building Chef Cookbooks with GitLab (Part 1) (12 mins read).
An introduction to how to build a cookbook using GitLab's Continuous Integration platform in conjunction with kitchen-docker.
by Jamie Tanna
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#guide
#howto
#blogumentation
#gitlab
#chef
#test-kitchen
#docker
#gitlab-ci.
Extracting SSL/TLS Certificate Chains Using OpenSSL (1 mins read).
A quick one-liner to get you the full certificate chain in .pem format.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#bash
#shell
#oneliner
#openssl
#certificates.
glances, a top and htop replacement (1 mins read).
I share the tool I have been using for system utilisation and monitoring, glances.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#command-line
#python
#tool
#workflow.
Saving Repetition with Git Commit Templates (3 mins read).
Speed up your commit message writing by providing a template for when you run git commit.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#tools
#git
#workflow
#automation.
Cleaning Up Your LaTeX Build Output with latexrun (3 mins read).
A tool to help reduce the amount of unnecessary output when building LaTeX files.
Continuous Delivery with Capistrano and GitLab Continuous Integration (5 mins read).
How to get up and running with using GitLab CI and the Capistrano deploy tool.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#capistrano
#deploy
#ci
#gitlab
#docker.
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