Jenkins 2.0 is finally stable and has been promoted to the latest tag in the official Docker image. Developers can now take advantage of the new Pipelines feature and UI improvements. I’ve been a big fan of Jenkins since the Hudson days and use it on a daily basis -...
This year I’ve had the challenge of running a legacy Magento 1.9 Community Edition installation on AWS. This post outlines some of the key learnings I’ve gathered over the past 3 months and the solutions we’ve taken to improve them. In general I find Magento 1.9 to be very reactive...
This post explains how to achieve rolling deploys on AWS using the HashiCorp stack. It is based on a strategy proposed by Paul Hinze. Normally when I deploy our applications to AWS I first ‘bake’ the code into an AWS AMI using Packer and then feed that image into an...