Unreleased patches to Ansible's CloudFormation module that implement a dry-run mode, comparing planned inputs against previous updates to show what would change.
Inspired by brian d foy's challenge to language advocates, here are five things I hate about Chef -- my favourite configuration management tool -- after several years of daily use.
Simon Croome's talk on increasing agility by understanding risk introduces Gonzo, a tool for identifying and reviewing pending changes across Puppet infrastructure.
Scale Summit was an unconference for people interested in web scalability, and while it was a really good event, there is room for improvement in introductions, scheduling, and session facilitation.
A recap of cfgmgmtcamp.eu, a two-day configuration management conference in Gent bringing together Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, Ansible, Saltstack, and Juju communities.
Using the 1.0 release of test-kitchen and kitchen-docker to run Chef cookbook tests with Jenkins, with a demo cookbook and Vagrantfile to help you get started.
Debugging a shared folder issue when using Vagrant with the VMware provider and Berkshelf, where the cookbook directory disappears after reprovisioning.
A follow-up revisiting the original "Dick Jokes and DevOps" post, correcting its gender-focused framing and presenting gender-neutral reasons why off-topic crude humor doesn't belong in professional discussions.