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AWS Lambda and Jenkins Integration

Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Serverless is gaining attention as the next big thing in the DevOps space after containers. Developers are excited because they don’t have to worry about servers any more; Ops may be sceptical and slightly worried to hear about a world without servers (and sys admin maintaining them). Can these two worlds co-exist? Can serverless just be another tool in the DevOps toolkit?

CD Summit and Jenkins Days 2016

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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This week I’m giving a talk about Continuous Security with Jenkins, Docker Bench, and Amazon Inspector at CD Summit & Jenkins Days in Amsterdam and in Berlin. CD Summit & Jenkins Days are a series of conferences in the US and in Europe focusing on Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

This is the abstract of my talk:

Continuous Security with Jenkins and Amazon Inspector

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows to identify security vulnerabilities at operating system and network levels by scanning the host against a knowledge base of security best practices and rules.

I recently integrated Amazon Inspector to run in a Jenkins job so that security testing can be automated and performed prior to deployment to production.

Continuous Security with Jenkins and Docker Bench

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Docker Bench is an open source tool for automatically validating the configuration of a host running Docker containers. The tool has been written among others by Diogo Mónica, security lead at Docker, and performs security checks at the container level following Docker’s CIS Benchmark recommendations.

As you would expect, the easiest way to run Docker Bench is via a Docker container. Just make sure you have Docker 1.10 or better, download the Docker image:

DevOps Oxford Meetup

Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Today I’m presenting at DevOps Oxford Meetup at the Oxford Centre for Innovation in my ‘home town’ Oxford. This is a short version of the talk Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose I gave at DockerCon Europe 2015 but with a few updates. The slides of the talk are here and the sample code is on GitHub.

DockerCon Europe 2015

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This week I am attending DockerCon Europe 2015 in Barcelona where I am going to talk about Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose. This is a reviewed version of a previous blog post on Jenkins and Docker. The slides or my presentation are here and the sample code is on GitHub.

Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Oxford University Press (OUP) recently started the Oxford Global Languages (OGL) initiative which aims at providing language resources for digitally under represented languages. In August 2015 OUP launched two African languages websites for Zulu and Northern Sotho. The backend of these websites is based on an API retrieving data in RDF from a triple store and delivering data to the frontend in JSON-LD.

The entire micro-service infrastructure for development, staging, and production runs on Docker containers in Amazon EC2 instances. In particular, we use Jenkins to rebuild the Docker image for the API based on a Python Flask application and Docker Compose to orchestrate the containers. A typical CI workflow is as follows:

XML London 2015

Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This weekend I am attending XML London at University College London, a 2 day conference on XML and Semantic Web technologies. I am presenting a paper on Continuous Integration for XML and RDF Data. The paper is available here and the slides of my presentation are available here.

Update: XML London put online the full video of the presentation: