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How to communicate queue-based processing delays to non-technical team members?
I am responsible for a set of SQS queue-processing jobs with a scaling policy on the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible CloudWatch metric. These jobs can fail to keep up with the amount of messages sent for any number of reasons:
Service…
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Load balancing Nexus artifact repository
Load balancing Nexus is currently not supported by Sonatype, except by putting a Nexus instance in front of two with smart-proxying enabled or via a newer feature.
Still, I gave it a shot, by sharing the filesystem with GlusterFS for the /storage,…
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Which ways are there to decouple deployment from release?
One method of continuous deployment is to decouple deployment from release, i.e. deploy updates without activating the changes immediately.
I know that feature-toggles can be used for this, but I'm wondering if there are other techniques for…
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Does my organization need adopt Agile Soft. Dev. before adopting DevOps?
Agile software development is the methodology of choice for software shops today. But there are still organisations which are not practicing Agile in their software development, who might be interested in adopting DevOps.
When I say Agile Software…
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How to use Vagrant and Docker-for-Windows on a Hyper-V system?
Back in the day, I was using VirtualBox (VB) and Vagrant (V) to run VMs. Since I installed docker-for-windows (DfW) and run V, VB complains about Hyper-V (HV).
[user@localhost ~]$ vagrant up
Stderr: VBoxManage.exe: error: VT-x is not available…
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Which plugin should I use to get started with Jenkins to manage mainframe components in PDS format?
Assume somebody familiar with DevOps and mainframes, but new to Jenkins, wants to get started with Jenkins, e.g. to:
investigate the feasibility of managing data stored in personal files (PDSes, i.e. partitioned data sets) on the mainframe (so not,…
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What are the signs of an understaffed DevOps team?
What are the typical signs and signals of a DevOps team being understaffed? How would you justify/explain a request for a new addition to a team?
I would love to keep the question generic, but here is some additional information:
We currently have…
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Which SCM solutions exist for managing mainframe software?
Imagine a company using mainframes to run (part of) their (often mission critical) business applications, and using z/OS (also known as OS/390, or MVS).
What are the typical softwares they use to facilitate Software Change and Configuration…
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how to automatically create a subdomain for every pull request
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I got a team of untechnical QA's who have to do testing on iOS/android apps for every Pull Request (PR) that gets created by my backend team.
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This is what I want to do: everytime a backend engineer creates a PR on bitbucket, I…
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Is it possible to trigger an AWS Lambda function directly from CloudWatch alarm?
Currently, for triggering a lambda function in response to a CloudWatch alarm, I need to route the alarm via SNS, like this:
AWS CloudWatch Alarm --> Send to a topic in SNS --> SNS topic triggers the lambda function
So, is there a way I can do it…
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What is the difference between DevOps engineer Vs DevOps consultant Vs DevOps architect?
What is the difference between DevOps engineer Vs DevOps consultant Vs DevOps architect?
Considering Role wise & Salary wise & Seniority wise & job demand wise, etc.
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How to support releasing new versions of the code, running in parallel with the last stable release?
I have one service in production (on AWS), which follows the immutable server pattern. Its deployment looks like this:
Create a new AMI with Packer.
Create a new CloudFormation stack, starting with an auto-scaling group of size 1.
When I see that…
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CodeBuild - multiple input artifacts in AWS Pipeline
I am building an AWS CodePipeline which depends on two source repositories. If the 'CodeBuild' step is specified with multiple Input artifacts, then you get the error: .. declares 2 input artifacts which is more than the maximum count. Documentation…
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Can you use `aws-sdk` to store objects in Google Storage?
Google Storage claims they support interoperability in their solution with Amazon AWS S3 and Eucalyptus Systems APIs.
source: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability
Can the aws-sdk for Java, or Node.js, or Python, be used to store…
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ansible: difference between a variable and a fact
While I'm using Ansible for quite some time, I'm not sure I really understand the differences between a variable and a fact.
Would it be any difference doing
- set_fact:
nginx_ssl: /etc/nginx/ssl
nginx_conf_file: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
or
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