Adam Hawkins

Vagrant is a development environment automation tool. It accomplishes this by leveraging virtual machines with VirtualBox, VMWare, or cloud providers like AWS. It’s primarily designed to standardize environments across platforms. However, it’s not limited to that. Vagrant can be especially useful for cross-platform automated tests. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be ready to […]

Ansible is a general purpose automation tool that may be used for configuration management or workflow automation. Configuration management is an “infrastructure as code” practice that codifies things, e.g. what packages and versions should be installed on a system, or what daemons should be running. Workflow automation may be anything from provisioning cloud infrastructure to […]

Introduction This tutorial will show you how to deploy a sample microservices application to Kubernetes and set up continuous deployment using SemaphoreCI. It includes a crash introduction to Kubernetes, Google Container Engine, and building an automated deploy process. Kubernetes, or “k8s” for short, is an orchestration tool for container native applications. Note that Kubernetes is […]

In this tutorial, we’ll introduce you to Packer and its use cases. It covers using Packer to build an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and deploying the application to AWS with a load balancer and autoscaling group. Prerequisites This tutorial involves a few mandatory tools and assumes a few things. You’ll need the following to complete […]

Introduction Static sites are popular because they are easy to work with, highly performant, and easily deployed. Static sites are also a nice test bed for continuous deployment practices due to their simplicity. This tutorial demonstrates how to use Docker, Middleman, Ansible, and AWS to build a continuous deployment system so your site’s infrastructure and […]

Introduction You’ve built some Docker images and made something locally. Now it’s time to go to production — and you’re stuck. This is not uncommon. There are quite a few articles out there about using Docker in a development environment. However, running Docker in production could still use a detailed explanation. This tutorial will take […]