When 'Docker' meets 'Make'

Poor man's deployment strategy without using CI/CD.

A strategy to perform re-producible deployment from any computer.

Jenkins as a Service

Code all the way down.

An introduction to deploying an autoscaled Jenkins cluster on AWS ECS using code all the way down.

Automatically Compliant

Wouldn't it be great to not worry about compliance?

Compliance is a thing. A big thing in most big organisations. Meeting compliance obligations, whether they are based on regulation, code of conduct or risk, can be arduous. Fortunately, automation can help!

Is there such a thing as too much automation?

Thinking of automation as a competitive cognitive artifact, and on ways to minimise the associated risks

Automation is fantastic for many reasons - it saves time, reduces errors, and enables people to perform extremely complex tasks with little to no understanding of what is being done directly. But by automating everything are we setting ourselves up for disaster? What happens when something goes wrong and the people who built the automation have all left?