Status Update

Another Status update post.

Its been about 3 months since starting my new job. I get to work on a lot of devops-y type of tasks, which is fun, and a much more positive life change.

Quick rundown on some things I've completed so far, in no order of importance. Possibly future topics🔗

• Learn to get used to using OS X as my primary development system
• Get familiar with using Homebrew for installing packages
• Play with Ansible in an OS X environment
• Beginning to use Chef to manage the team's testing environment.
• Learn about Fluentd, to process development logs (and run arbitrary commands based on events. Lots here to talk about)
• A lot of Docker! Docker-machine, Docker-compose with Virtualbox, then native Docker engine (1.12) in OS X
• Some integrating of Eclipse and Docker via Docker Tooling plugin. (Perhaps more to talk about in the future)
• AWS. Just getting familiar with this environment. Mostly S3, EC2, ECR, CloudFront, so far...
• Shippable for CI. (They use containers for building our github check-ins. I think this is an interesting service)
• Blackbox frontend testing with Selenium and Appium

Topics outside of tech I've been spending time doing🔗

• Working on the house (I don't have a functional workshop yet, but soon)
• Time and goal management
• Watching a lot of YouTube
• Getting more involved with many social media type apps
• Gardening
• Biking

It's always been a goal of mine to make this blog something to hold myself accountable. So even if it is a post once in a while, I want to get my voice out there. In an effort to post more often, I'll be experimenting with this space to post non-tech stuff that hopefully brings some value.