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Recent Posts

Tiller v0.0.7 now supports environment variables

Just a quick update : Tiller has just been updated to v0.0.7. I’ve just added a new EnvironmentDataSource which is super-simple, but very convenient. It makes all your environment variables accessible to templates (as global values) by converting them to lower-case, and prefixing them with env_.

Tiller project and Docker container configuration

After several days of hacking on my Runner.rb project, I’m pleased to say that I’ve completed a much more polished and complete solution to shipping multiple configuration files in a single Docker container. The project is now known as Tiller and has been published as a Ruby gem so you can just run gem install tiller to install it. You can find a good overview of it, and how it works over at the Github README.md, but it’s still essentially the same approach :

Dynamic configuration files with Docker containers

I’ve been using Docker containers on Linux systems for a while now, and have recently developed a neat solution to what I imagine is a fairly common problem.

Getting started with Sensu on Solaris

Sensu is a monitoring framework written in Ruby. It’s small and very easy to extend, as well as being extremely scalable. It uses a message bus to communicate with it’s different components (clients, servers, api hosts) as well as external systems such as Graphite, which can be used to produce graphs and store metrics.

Ruby gems update

I had a bash at finishing off the Ruby gem dependencies for Sensu on Solaris 11 over the last few days (and a bunch of other stuff,but I’ll write about that a bit later).