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CICD is awesome. It automates the tasks we want to perform whenever we push code to our repository: test linting audit third party dep...

I host a little website at https://apps.frickjack.com by publishing static web files to an S3 bucket behind a cloudfront CDN. One way to i...

There are many good libraries for developing automated software tests, but we also want to allow non developers to specify test plans and ac...

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...