If you’re anything like me, you’ve found that configuring your application using environment variables works really well because it forces you to build an environment-agnostic system that can be deployed to anywhere by adjusting a set of variables that are read by your application at run-time. This strategy is in-line with 12-factor apps and also… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Deployments
Developing and Deploying with GitHub and CircleCI
CircleCI has quickly become one of the dominating continuous integration platforms available today, boasting support for Docker, Android, and now iOS through the use of OS X virtual machines. GitHub has been the de facto standard for hosting Git repositories for some time now. While worthy competitors do exist, GitHub‘s ability to innovate around a piece of freely available version control software… Read more »
Automatically Publish Your Changelog to Slack
It’s always wise to keep a non-git-log changelog in your code repository. A changelog provides a way to explain what changes were made in a more verbose and reader-friendly way than a terse commit log. Even more valuable is providing this information to your team. While anyone can certainly look at your repository and view… Read more »
A Better Dockerized MySQL
MySQL still plays a large part in many software stacks and while many IaaS vendors have their own hosted versions (i.e. Amazon RDS), it’s still fairly common to run MySQL in a Docker container, especially in development environments. One common problem that’s encountered with MySQL is initializing it before its use and having your application connect only after initialization is complete…. Read more »
CircleCI vs. SemaphoreCI vs. Shippable for Docker Workflows
After using Jenkins for some time, the natural progression towards cheaper and simpler alternatives kicked in. While not the prettiest thing to look at, Jenkins served us well, but the costs involved with running at least one full-time AWS instance (plus workers) for our CI needs were becoming questionable.