My Master Vagrant File

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Vagrant is probably one of my favorite tools. The ability to quickly spin up one, or multiple, virtual machines for testing is super useful. Over the course of the last year or two really using it, I have developed what I call my “master” Vagrantfile. This Vagrantfile essentially has lots of the common things I do, with comments that allow me to easily select the things I want. For instance, options for all the different distributions that I need to test with, whether I want to provision with a shell script or with Ansible, and places for specifying multiple VMs. So I figured I would post my master file here for others to take a look at, use, or even just as a guide. …

New Job, New Infrastructure

Thursday, May 11, 2017

I started a new job a few months ago as a full time DevOps engineer for a non-profit. After doing the large corporate thing for a while, I grew tired of the bureaucracy and the (frankly) bullshit and decided it was time to move back to a smaller team who was more focused on the technology and providing a good service, than focusing on ROI for stockholders. So here I am, it’s been a few months and I couldn’t be happier! I am about to embarq on a very large infrastructure project for this new company, and figured it was time to also update my personal blog so I could chronicle what I’ve learned in the process. Well, updating for me really means starting fresh, all new hosting, all new content. …