Concourse CI/CD on AWS and Custom resources
Concourse is an amazing CI/CD tool which many people choose for the ease of use and first class support of “pipeline as code” concept. I had quite a deep dive with this tool and never regret choosing to use it in production, although it comes with some quirks of its own.
Puppet for muggles
Imagine a professional DevOps engineer juggling servers like ping-pong balls. He writes automation scripts, deploys hundreds of ‘cattle’ servers every day and is generally happy with himself. He works at Hogwarts.
Home surveillance DIY and linux
Some time ago I stumbled across Oco2 Indiegogo project - advertised as next generation FullHD camera with local and cloud storage. I immediately thought about our Chinese friends, surely they have already come up with something similar and much cheaper (let’s forget about quality for a second).
Google Flights API search
They say that humans are hardwired to be as lazy as possible, and I tend to agree. I’m planning a flight to my hometown and naturally looking for the cheapest deal. Sites like SkyScanner are good for things like this, but our favourite Google ‘Not Evil’ Corporation also has flight search service, which I prefer because of the ‘matrix calendar’ feature they acquired by purchasing famous ‘ita software’ solution.
shodan, routerscan and security
I was always fascinated by the things one can do by combining tools. This post is dedicated to the famous IoT security search engine - Shodan and an app that holds the list of known router vulnerabilities.