It has been a while since I last looked at running Packer external link locally, when I did CentOS 8 had just been released. Since then, there has been a little drama around the on-going support of CentOS which is best summed up by the following post in /r/sysadmin/ external link : Off the back of this announcement the Rocky Linux project external link has been announced, developed and then released....

In my last blog post I introduced a stage which executed Checkov external link to my Terraform Azure DevOps pipeline, this scanned the Terraform configuration and stopped the deployment if there was an issue. I also added a stage which checks to see if there are any resources being destroyed. Whats missing? Both of these I thought should give some basic protection against problems caused by common configuration issues, which they did, but it didn’t take into account the end user, i....

It’s been just over a year since I first posted about the Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline I used to use external link , I say used to use, because that pipeline is now a little outdated. This posts covers the updated Pipeline I am starting to deploy along side my Terraform code. Pipeline Overview The pipeline itself has expanded a little and it now not only uses stages but also depending what Terraform is planning on doing it will trigger a manual approval process should there be any resources being destroyed....

As I move into using Azure DevOps more and more, there is one thing which I really haven’t got on with and that is release pipelines. I didn’t like that I couldn’t easily define it as YAML like I could with build pipelines, even though I don’t like them, there are a few things I do like — like approval gates. Environments Luckily, there are ways to get around this — the most simple way is to add an Environment and then add an Approval....

A little late, but there are my top 20 records of 2020, as per previous years these are all ones which I have purchased on vinyl. bdrmm ‎- Bedroom external link Doves ‎- The Universal Want external link Pure Reason Revolution — Eupnea external link Orb — Abolition Of The Royal Familia external link The Smashing Pumpkins — Cyr external link Andy Bell — The View From Halfway Down external link Ulver — Flowers Of Evil external link Church Of The Cosmic Skull — Everybodys Going To Die external link Jim Bob — Pop Up Jim Bob external link Matt Berry — Phantom Bird external link Working Mens Club — Working Mens Club external link Crippled Black Phoenix — Ellengast external link Bruce Springsteen — Letter To You external link And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — X: The Godless Void And Othe Stories external link The Pineapple Thief — Versions Of The Truth external link Ozric Tentacles — Space For The Earth external link Abel Ganz — The Life Of The Honeybee Other Moments Of Clarity external link Sparks — A Steady Drip Drip Drip external link EOB — Earth external link Badly Drawn Boy — Banana Skin Shoes external link Katatonia — City Burials external link Kavus Torabi — Hip To The Jag external link

When Apple releases a new version of macOS it always takes a few months for everything to catchup, following my last blog post where I mentioned that I was having problems installing Python on macOS Big Sur external link which meant that my preferred method of installing and managing Python using pyenv, which is documented in this blog post external link , didn’t work out of the box — and the workarounds suggested workarounds on GitHub made my shell really slow....

One of the annoying things about updating to the latest version of macOS is that a lot of the command-line tools I use tend to break or need tweaking slightly from how I have been using them. One of the annoyances in the move to Big Sur is that Python is a back to being a massive pain, and more so than normal. At the time of writing pyenv external link is not running all that well, and while there are fixes available they slow down my shell — for more information on the problem see this GitHub issue external link and for information on why pyenv see my previous post on updating Python on macOS external link ....

A few weeks after the final draft of the fourth edition of Mastering Docker external link was submitted Docker made the announcement that they would be making changes to the retention of images in Docker Hub as well as the introduction of rate limits. These changes make complete sense given that at the time of writing this post there are over 150 million images taking up over 15 PB of storage, of that 10 PB of the images haven’t been accessed in over 6 months and 4....