Category: python

  • The Funniest Incident Postmortem

    Recently, I had a chance to think about an outage that I debugged and fixed a few years ago that involves Jenkins and systemd (or in this case lack thereof!). Generally, if you want to run a task at the end of every Jenkins job whether the job has passed or failed, you have two…

  • Writing Golang as a Python Dev

    I’ve gone through the Golang tutorial once before but in the last month or so, I fully dove into it. I started by writing a simple hello world web application. I found the implementation of the webserver so neat that most of the uses I’d have for a framework is redundant. The in-built libraries already…

  • Testing Ansible With Molecule

    My colleague was recently assigned a task to create tests for an ansible role that she works on. She pinged me for help and we got started in figuring out what to do.

  • Moving from pyrax to libcloud: A story in 3 parts

    Softserve is a service that lets our community loan machines to debug test failures. They create cloud VMs based on the image that we use for our test machines. We originally…

  • Remote Triggering a Jenkins Job

    All I wanted to do was trigger a job on another Jenkins instance. Here’s all the things I tried and failed…