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devopsanywhere: Puppet vs. Chef, Fight!

February 22, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Chef wins but by only a narrow margin.

The Criteria

Community Strength
Leadership
Corporate Adoption
Technical Merits
Hands-on Experience

(Full Story: devopsanywhere: Puppet vs. Chef, Fight!)

puppet, scm

chef, puppet, scm

Dependency Management with .NET – Doing it Right

February 11, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Keeping dependencies in your source control
GAC and WebGAC
Here comes NuGet
Working with NuGet Remote Feeds
Meet Artifactory

(Full Story: Dependency Management with .NET – Doing it Right)

.net, scm

Visualized Git best practices for team: branch, merge, rebase

January 30, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

1 – Stop using GUI for git, seriously, it’s not that many commands
2 – Be safe, branch out, commit often, merge often
3 – Git rebase to be used on the current branch
4 – Replace git pull with git pull –rebase

(Full Story: Visualized Git best practices for team: branch, merge, rebase)

git, scm

The history of version control

December 23, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

1. Source code is text in a file! (1960s)
2. Humans can manually keep track of versions of code! (1960s)
3. You can keep lots of versions in one file! (1972, 1982)
4. You can each have your own copy checked out! (1982)
5. Wow! You can version multiple files at once! (1986)
6. Two people can edit the same file at the same time, and it merges what they both did! (1986)
7. The shared repository can be on a remote machine! (1994)
8. Free open source version control hosting! (1999)
9. You can distribute it all so there’s no central repository! (2005)
10. When you checkout that’s a fork too, and you can do that in public! (2008)

(Full Story: The history of version control)

scm, versioncontrol

Why are you still deploying overnight?

October 21, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Plan For Success; React Quickly to Obstacles

(Full Story: Why are you still deploying overnight? | Brian Crescimanno)

configurationmanagement, deployment, scm

How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of System Administration

October 4, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Here are the features in a scripting language that a sysadmin wants:
A DSL for the problem domain
High productivity, i.e. concise and expressive syntax
Easy to interaction with shell commands
Regular Expressions
powerful one-liners

(Full Story: How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of System Administration)

puppet, scm, sysadmin

chef, puppet, scm, sysadmin