This article is about encrypting Satl external pillars with NACL. TL;DR 🔗︎# Salt NACL is based on another SaltStack project libnacl , an wrapper for libsodium and Salt nacl resources (module , runner , renderer and ext_pillar ). Overview of merged features to develop branch: NACL module, runner (around 2015.x) NACL update with secretbox, sealedbox (around 2017/Aug) NACL render with boxed syntax … ... read more »

TL;DR# An overview how to implement salt-formula test's with kitchen-salt. Overview# In this article I will talk about writing and testing https://github.com/salt-formulas[salt-formulas ]. An curated collection of formulas behind salt-formulas community. The concepts however will fit to any salt formula. If you are interested in https://github.com/salt-formulas[salt-formulas ] read more at: … ... read more »

DevOps workshop with Chef# At the end of the 2015 I was asked by IBM colleague from Poland who is leading a team of Java developers to develop and deliver a DevOps workshop. I took a challenge and delivered March 9-10 in Warsaw personally. The slides from the event are available at: http://slides.com/petrmichalec/devops-workshop Agenda 🔗︎# At first quite challenge as the DevOps topic is so wide, … ... read more »

Work in progress… I am now working on DevOps workshop that would show up Chef, Consul, Docker possibilities in DEV and orchestration together with KitchenCI and InSpec testing and auditing. As a first stage I created my own version for DevOps kung-fu presentation: http://slides.com/petrmichalec/epcim-devops-cult DevOpsKungFu presentation Note: this was originaly presented by Adam Jacob / CTO of … ... read more »