Work on daves-adventures

Jenkins and SCM Sync

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

So if you plan on scaling out Jenkins with slaves and the like you’ll probably want to ensure your configuration is kept someone secure, handily there’s a plugin for that.

Jenkins SCM Sync - which to be fair I have a bit of a love hate relationship with and since building up a new Jenkins server last week hasn’t got any better, the config loaded in fine, but then would error on every save / change.

AWS and a bit of Slack

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon Web Services (Jenkins)

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Right so we have our handy services Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with access via OpenVPN (and the awesome Viscosity OSX VPN Client) now we need to start adding useful things into it.

(See this blog post for info)

For me the next step was looking at how we could automate deployments using our own tool chain, part of the reason we are looking at AWS is to get a bit more flexibility and also the benefits of greater automation. We’ve already had success using BitBucket -> Codeship -> Heroku as a work flow to make our code visible and available in readily shareable environment, and it took < 5 minutes to get it up and running ;-)

Auto Start / Stop servers FTW

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

HMRC quarterly tax submission petition response

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

So I signed the petition “Scrap plans forcing self employed & small business to do 4 tax returns a yearly” and due to the number of signaturies a response from the government was required.

Amazon Web Services (VPC + NAT + OpenVPN)

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

So in the process of setting up a few bits and pieces on AWS and the first area (well second after a couple of quick deploys using Elastic Beanstalk) is to get a Jenkins server up and running.

So I’m looking to deploy the Jenkins box within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to block off access to Jenkins and also any test slaves it will eventually spin up. To ensure smooth access into the VPC I’m using OpenVPN. First step is use the VPC wizard to create the basics, I went with the “VPC with Public and Private Subnets” as this handily creates the NAT Gateway box to allow servers inside the VPC to access the interwebs.

Bio

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Day 26

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

SQL Query perfomance v Stored Procedure issues

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Day 11

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Day 7

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Day 3

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Handing over

dave@dave-smith.co.uk (David Smith) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000