Author Archives for Manuel Dewald

CFP: 5 agile practices and why they are useful to SRE teams

April 21, 2020 2:28 pm Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

As SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) teams contain a fair portion of software development work, and get filled up by software developers, it is a natural move to also adapt agile software development practices. The right agile model depends heavily on the percentage of development work vs. operations, which may be influenced by the team size. For example, in a small team where a high percentage of people is on call during the day, it might not make too much sense to plan... View Article

Guest article: Build a Kubernetes Operator in 10 minutes with Operator SDK

April 20, 2020 1:53 pm Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

It’s been a while since I last submitted an article to opensource.com. This time it is about quickly kick-starting a Kubernetes Operator with Operator SDK. Click here to get to the article. When you start working on a new software project, often a bunch of code is already existing. That’s by no means different when joining development of a Kubernetes Operator. In the case of Operator SDK a good part of the code is additionally generated, so you also want... View Article

CFP: Things I love about SRE that I loathe about DevOps

January 28, 2020 8:32 pm Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

DevOps & SRE – what is it? Let’s define what those terms mean. DevOps means, the same team building the software is responsible for running it. This can be easiest imagined for software that is operated by the vendor themselves, i.e. cloud services. The idea is, no one knows the software better than the developers, so no one could better operate and fix in-flight issues than them. On the other hand, developers have high interest in building software that is... View Article

Ruby best practice: Implementing operator == and ensuring it doesn’t break

March 8, 2019 12:42 pm Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

In ruby, comparing hashes, strings and objects is a complicated topic. Should you use equal?, eql? or ==? There is plenty of help on this topic, but in this post, we will focus on the interesting behavior of the == operator and how you can make it behave as you need it for your use case. When comparing Hashes in Ruby, the == operator compares the content of a hash recursively. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9... View Article

Raspberry Pi powered Wifi Pictureframe

March 6, 2019 7:09 am Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

Some days ago I wrote an post about building a picture frame using a Raspberry Pi. The article has been published on opensource.com. The software to show the slideshow has been written by myself and published on github as I wasn’t happy with all the existing solutions. As they either involve using a GL rendered xscreensaver which was terribly slow on the Raspberry Pi or installing Kodi which I think is kind of overkill, just to get a slide show.Also I wanted the... View Article

Ansible: Passing arrays to BASH scripts

January 7, 2019 7:56 am Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

When using Ansible, it may become handy sooner or later to invoke a BASH script in one of you playbooks. Invoking a BASH script in Ansible can be done using a simple shell task: 1 2 3 4 5 6 --- - hosts: 127.0.0.1 connection: local tasks: - name: ensure stuff is done shell: ./do_stuff.sh This task will execute the bash script do_stuff.sh. Sometimes, it is also necessary to configure the behaviour of the BASH script you are executing. The simplest way... View Article

A Christmas Poem

December 19, 2018 7:31 am Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 #include <stdio.h>/* A CHRISTMAS POEM * * Christmas is near, * brings relaxed atmosphere. * The devs are staying at home, * feeling bored like a stone. * * Left the winter outside, * but still not satisfied. * They are missing their code, * yet so tired of node. * * And if this feels like you - * here is something to do. * Celebrate! It's written in C:... View Article

Blogpost: CloudFoundry Summit Europe 2018

December 18, 2018 7:31 am Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

After attending CloudFoundry Summit 2018 in Basel in October, I published an event summary together with my colleagues. This writing summarizes the talks that where interesting from the perspective of us as BOSH developers. You can find the post on the community page of SAP. Recap and collected replays: Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2018 — thanks @ManuelDewald and team! #cfsummit @cloudfoundryhttps://t.co/t7b6NjplyN — SAP Cloud Platform (@sapcp) 6. November 2018 Watch all talks online via the youtube playlist.

Define interfaces in a duck typed language like ruby

October 5, 2018 6:55 am Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

In Java, it is very intuitive how interfaces are defined and used. You just create an interface in a similar way you would create a class and derive the classes, implementing the interface. interface Drivable { public void drive(int meters); public void stop();}class Car implements Drivable { public void drive(int meters) { //start the engine //go for it } public void stop() { //stop the engine }}class Bagger implements Drivable { public void drive(int meters) { //start engine //start left... View Article

RaspberryPi NAS

July 27, 2018 7:47 am Published by Manuel Dewald Comments Off

Guest Series at opensource.com After my recent first guest article on https://opensource.com the first part of a series about creating a Raspberry Pi based NAS has just been published. You can read it here. There has been a surprising amount of twitter reactions to the article and it seems it also collected more than a thousand visits on the first day. Building a network attached storage device with a #RaspberryPi https://t.co/PrNwRsZnjr via @opensourceway by @manueldewald #RPi #OpenSource #FOSS — Juha Remes (@jremes84)... View Article

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