Embracing Ansible

Embracing Ansible

Tuesday, Mar 24, 2015
Three months ago, we were introduced to the wonders of Ansible at Drupal Camp Brighton. Since then, whenever we’ve had the chance we’ve been working on various Ansible playbooks to automate many of our development and maintenance processes. For a small team like us, Ansible is invaluable. It is reducing the time we need to spend administering our servers and sites exponentially, freeing up extra time for development. Development and testing happen more quickly as well, and we can be more confident about deployment to live running smoothly because of better consistency between our environments. ...

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UK & Ireland DrupalCamps 2012

UK & Ireland DrupalCamps 2012

Sunday, Jan 27, 2013
I thought that a retrospective at DrupalCamps (not sure whether those words should be joined or not?) over 2012 would be an interesting thing to look at. Both to see the enthusiasm and passion that is behind the Drupal community in the UK & Ireland but also to contrast with other development and tech conferences. My initial inspiration was receiving a mailshot from an unnamed conference offering conference tickets at the early bird price of £999. ...

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Upgrading, Migration and Moving House

Upgrading, Migration and Moving House

Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Presented at Drupal Science Camp January 2012 in Cambridge.

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