I written a very simple CLI tool in Go that takes in a log file and spits out statistic result of how many logs occurrence of each log level. It basically outputs a table with count of each log level occurrences. For instance, a standard log file will have INFO…

Within a typical horizontal cross-functional software development team in modern agile software development you would have Developers, QA/Testers, Engineers, Business Analysts, Product Owners/Managers, “DevOps” Engineers and so on… To manage feature development it is not uncommon to use an issue tracking management system like Jira where you would create Jira…

I have worked in numerous software development teams over my 10+ years within the software development industry and i have seen many types of teams being formed. I have definitely been part of these many different types of teams. What i mean specifically about the types of teams is the…

I recently passed my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam and I want to share my journey on how i achieved it. In this article I am going outline from start to finish the resources I used up to the point I took my exam. Disclaimer: The steps i took and…

This example showcases how to integrate software bill of materials (sbom) generation tooling into a Jenkins Pipeline. In this particular example I am just simply installing the tool (Syft) on the instance running Jenkins and then execute the CLI tool command passing in the container image to analyse with each…

Here is a very short tutorial that outlines the steps on signing and verifying container images using a tool called cosign. How cosign works and why the need of signing container images are beyond the scope of this short tutorial. …

Primer — GitHub Actions permits CI/CD pipelines to be constructed directly within GitHub in the form of ‘Workflows’. The way it works is that you would create a CI/CD config file you_can_call_it_anything_you_want.ymlin the .github/workflows/ directory within the root of your project directory. If you used CI services like CircleCI or TravisCI then…

In the catering & hospitality industry, within restaurants you would have a combination of a Head chef, sous-chef, more junior chef (or kitchen/catering assistant) etc in the kitchen. There is a hierarchy where normally you would have a single head chef who is calling the shots. The sous-chefs and the…

If you’ve read my article about how the Phoenix Project book is a must read for DevOps Engineers then look no further again for the sequel* to the Phoenix Project — The Unicorn Project. The Phoenix Project is a must read book for DevOps Engineers As a DevOps Engineer I simply can not rate The Phoenix Project book highly enough.colin-but.medium.com Similar to The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project is also a novel where it aims to…