Need to automate configurations for Amazon Web Services? One way to do it is with Chef.io.
Chef does the "cooking" metaphor to the hilt! Configurations are "recipes", written in the Ruby programming language, which are stored in a "cookbook". We covered this in early January with The Ruby Behind Chef.
This metaphor continues: To automate all of this, you use the product "Test Kitchen".
Seems complicated? To help you out, Chef create the most amazing set of documentation I have ever seen: The Learn Chef Rally.
From Getting Started With Chef in Learn.Chef.io:
"If you're new to Chef, just know that Chef lets you automate all the things—infrastructure, applications, compliance and more. Learn Chef Rally will teach you how. It's the hub for Chef and DevOps related resources that will build your skills.
"The Learn Chef Rally curriculum is organized by tracks. A track groups related learning activities.
"We call each learning activity a module. Modules include a mix of hands-on labs, articles, and videos. Our hands-on labs help you get started quickly on the platform that you care about most.
"When you finish a module, you'll see a few quiz questions at the end. Answering these questions correctly gives you credit for having completed the module. You can track your progress on the home page".
Since my job will be automating Amazon Web Service tests, spinning up and tearing down environments, I'm starting the module on Test Kitchen: "Infrastructure Code Deserves Tests Too".
Stories for Software QA Engineers shifting from manual to automated testing.
Showing posts with label DevOps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DevOps. Show all posts
January 31, 2018
January 29, 2018
What Is the DevOps toolset "Test Kitchen" and Where Did It Come Come from? Fletcher Nicol at ChefConf 2014
When learning and investigating a new open-source tool or technology, I find YouTube to be an amazing resource!
Beyond the many tutorials, presentations, and instructional videos, I try to see how the creators of the tool introduces and talks about it to the open-source community. What was the creator trying to achieve? What problem was to be solved? And, most importantly, how can I take the creator's message and transfer it to the work that I am doing?
Right now, I'm trying to get up to speed on Test Kitchen < kitchen.ci, @kitchenci >, the product we use at work, combined with Chef.io, to automate spinning up and tearing down different Amazon Web Services environments.
With the "Learning Chef Rally", it is going to take me a few weeks to finally get to the part I need, learning exactly how the DevOps tool spins up environments, so I was also seeking alternate sources to tide me over.
Luckily, I found this, introduced at ChefConf 2104, a conference about Chef...
#ChefConf 2014: Fletcher Nichol, "Test Kitchen: One Year Later and the Future
Beyond the many tutorials, presentations, and instructional videos, I try to see how the creators of the tool introduces and talks about it to the open-source community. What was the creator trying to achieve? What problem was to be solved? And, most importantly, how can I take the creator's message and transfer it to the work that I am doing?
Right now, I'm trying to get up to speed on Test Kitchen < kitchen.ci, @kitchenci >, the product we use at work, combined with Chef.io, to automate spinning up and tearing down different Amazon Web Services environments.
With the "Learning Chef Rally", it is going to take me a few weeks to finally get to the part I need, learning exactly how the DevOps tool spins up environments, so I was also seeking alternate sources to tide me over.
Luckily, I found this, introduced at ChefConf 2104, a conference about Chef...
#ChefConf 2014: Fletcher Nichol, "Test Kitchen: One Year Later and the Future
January 28, 2018
Starting a Linux Machine with Amazon Web Services Free Tier
It's my first time working at a cloud-security company using Amazon Web Services (AWS)! How to get up to speed?
To get up to speed, first, I've attempted to decipher the AWS Alphabet Soup in an earlier blog post. Next, to get more exposure to AWS, I signed up for the AWS Free Tier. I was a bit leery, since I needed to punch in my credit card information when I signed up.
To get up to speed, first, I've attempted to decipher the AWS Alphabet Soup in an earlier blog post. Next, to get more exposure to AWS, I signed up for the AWS Free Tier. I was a bit leery, since I needed to punch in my credit card information when I signed up.
- Some AWS services are free for 12 months, provided I do not go over 750 hrs per month of usage of EC2, and over 5 GB of Storage in Amazon EFS or 30 GB of Elastic Block Storage for long term. If I go over, or accidentally use a service that isn't on the free tier, I worry I am going to rack up a huge charge.
- Some services seem to be always free.
- Getting Started Resource Center: Mentioned in the email received upon sign up.
- AWS Documentation
- AWS 10 Minute Tutorials on everything that you could think of!
January 24, 2018
The AWS Alphabet Soup
AWS. EC2. S3. S3 Buckets. SQS. SNS. ARN. IAM. Eb. AMI. Cloud Trail. Cloud Formation. Diving through our product documentation on my first day at Threat Stack, and I couldn't understand a word!
I am getting exposure to AWS -- that is, Amazon Web Services -- for the first time in my new Software Development Engineer in Test role. All the companies I have worked at in the past had their own physical servers hosting whatever SaaS -- Software as a Service -- web or mobile product I was testing.
With SaaS, like the Software as a Service name implies, it's like Microsoft Office: You can choose to rent the software per month or per year. Yes, you could purchase the student version, and apply any patches and bug fixes yourself, but when using SaaS, Microsoft handles everything.
Likewise, the same business model applies for infrastructure and platforms.
I am getting exposure to AWS -- that is, Amazon Web Services -- for the first time in my new Software Development Engineer in Test role. All the companies I have worked at in the past had their own physical servers hosting whatever SaaS -- Software as a Service -- web or mobile product I was testing.
With SaaS, like the Software as a Service name implies, it's like Microsoft Office: You can choose to rent the software per month or per year. Yes, you could purchase the student version, and apply any patches and bug fixes yourself, but when using SaaS, Microsoft handles everything.
Likewise, the same business model applies for infrastructure and platforms.
January 4, 2018
Notes on Franklin Webber's webinar, The Ruby Behind Chef
For the past week, I've been trying to do a cram session on Ruby, one of the many programming languages I will be using in my next job as a Software Developer in Test.
Why Ruby? Chef, A DevOps tool, is written in Ruby... a language I don't even know.
The quickest way to learn how to swim? Row your boat into the deepest part of the lake and jump right in. Try not to drown too much.
Likewise, the quickest way I have found for me to learn? Dive right in. See how how long I can tread water before choking, sputtering, and coming up for air.
Care to go on a dive with me?
The Ruby Behind Chef (September 2016)
Franklin Webber, Training Lead at Chef
https://youtu.be/CnBP2uv3Yog
Why Ruby? Chef, A DevOps tool, is written in Ruby... a language I don't even know.
The quickest way to learn how to swim? Row your boat into the deepest part of the lake and jump right in. Try not to drown too much.
Likewise, the quickest way I have found for me to learn? Dive right in. See how how long I can tread water before choking, sputtering, and coming up for air.
Care to go on a dive with me?
The Ruby Behind Chef (September 2016)
Franklin Webber, Training Lead at Chef
https://youtu.be/CnBP2uv3Yog
May 3, 2016
Notes on Accelerating DevOps Collaboration with Sauce Labs & JIRA
Name: Accelerating DevOps Collaboration with Sauce Labs & JIRA
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 2:00 pm
Webinar Host: Sauce Labs
"Software Development teams are looking for ways to speed up their development process while maintaining high quality applications. In order to help meet this challenge, Sauce Labs is proud to announce the release of the first automated test cloud integration with Atlassian's JIRA.
"The Sauce Labs Plugin for JIRA allows JIRA users to increase the speed of their development cycles while maintaining quality and reducing cost. The plugin seamlessly connects the rich testing metadata that Sauce Labs provides with an organization's JIRA instance. Teams who are looking to adopt DevOps/Continuous Delivery practices for the first time will find this tool especially compelling".
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 2:00 pm
Webinar Host: Sauce Labs
About the Webinar:
"Software Development teams are looking for ways to speed up their development process while maintaining high quality applications. In order to help meet this challenge, Sauce Labs is proud to announce the release of the first automated test cloud integration with Atlassian's JIRA.
"The Sauce Labs Plugin for JIRA allows JIRA users to increase the speed of their development cycles while maintaining quality and reducing cost. The plugin seamlessly connects the rich testing metadata that Sauce Labs provides with an organization's JIRA instance. Teams who are looking to adopt DevOps/Continuous Delivery practices for the first time will find this tool especially compelling".
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