We recently started working with Slack to streamline workflows and try some ChatOps. While pushing our Jenkins and Shippable updates to Slack was accomplished with a single cURL command, we also wanted our Elastic Beanstalk notifications to show up in some particular channels. I’ve been wanting to try out AWS Lambda for some time now, and it just so… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Deployments
Migrating from OpsWorks to CoreOS and Fleet
No. You can’t fairly compare Amazon OpsWorks to a CoreOS environment so we’re not going to do that. All I will say is that OpsWorks and Chef combined for an extremely slow and buggy deployment process which lead us to look for an alternate solution. We started experimenting with Docker a few months back to accelerate our… Read more »
Golapa v2: Dockerized Launch Page Written in Go
The latest version of Golapa comes with some significant changes, namely extending support beyond Google App Engine. While we are still supporting GAE builds using the same codebase, by dockerizing Golapa we’re making it a lot easier to develop locally and deploy almost anywhere Docker is supported. Launch pages are supposed to be simple, right?… Read more »
Packaging for Deployment
In a previous post we discussed how we manage some of our Turret.IO deployments using Jordan Sissel‘s excellent packaging software: FPM. This post is mainly a mini-tutorial on one of many ways to leverage FPM as part of your deployment process. Like many others, our stack consists of both software built in-house and 3rd party applications such as NGiNX, Redis, Cassandra,… Read more »