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You just got your brand spankin' new AWS account, and your team is launching like a rocket into the cloud. How should you set this accou...

AWS recently introduced its EKS managed kubernetes service which manages the kubernetes control plane ( API and Etcd services), while th...

I just published a new JSON web token (JWT) parser app under apps.frickjack.com . There's nothing special about this app - it's ...

I recently updated apps.frickjack.com to use unbundled javascript modules to load custom elements and style rules. It worked great, exce...

Running jasminejs tests of javascript modules in a browser is straight forward, but requires small adjustments, since a module loads asyn...

Last week I rolled out an update to apps.frickjack.com that changes the plumbing of the site. The javascript is now organized as un...

First, there's probably a better way to do this with kubectl rollout , but I didn't know that existed till last week. Anyway ......

I've been doing devops work over the last few months at CDIS . One of the tasks I worked on recently was to extend the nginx configur...

I recently setup a Jenkins CICD service to complement the Travis based automation already in use where I work . I worked with job-based J...

I had some fun over the last week setting up a docker image for an S3-copy utility, and integrating it into the gulp build for https://apps....

I've discussed before how I run https://apps.frickjack.com on S3 , but one issue I did not address was how to version updates, so that...

Docker defaults to using its aufs storage driver on Ubuntu 16.0.4, but the system has a 4.4 kernel, so it's probably a good idea to swi...

The other night I logged into the AWS web console, and upgraded my little S3 hosted site at https://apps.frickjack.com to http2 with TLS - ...

When I went to implement a content security policy on http://apps.frickjack.com I was disappointed to realize that the 'Content-Securi...

I finally updated my little S3 -hosted web sandbox at http://apps.frickjack.com . The update has a few parts. First - I took down some old...

Here's the situation. You're stuck in 2017 running Windows 7 with a Cisco VPN client. You're also a Docker evangelist, and run...

I often find myself in a situation where I'm building an image from some Dockerfile, and the build fails 10 or 15 lines in, and I want t...

Karma-runner is a great way to run jasmine javascript test suites. One trick to make it easy to customize karma's runtime behavior is...

I've been thinking a bit about authentication and authorization lately, and while I may have my head semi-wrapped around authentication ...

It's easy to write your own JUnit test-runner. A developer on the java-platform often writes code in the context of some framework or ...