It’s a part of software developers hate writing and operations teams hate dealing with: packaging, installers, and upgrade scenarios. In Episode 54, the team looks at the fundamentals of packaging, tools that make the job both harder and easier, installer horror stories, and some good practices to make sure your packages don’t make others want to rip their hair out. Join the crew as we provide some tips for:
Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, Pete Cheslock , aka @petecheslock and J. Michael McGarr, aka @SonOfGarr for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a new Tool Tip!
Or, download Episode 54, or any of our previous shows!
Show Links/Notes
- 3:03 – News & Views
- We have a new contender: Configi
- Who secures your secure shell?
- How sloppy consumer electronics release engineering losing and recovering your NAS password?
- Finally answering: What Happens When…
- 14:36 – Main Segment: Packaging Your Bits for Freshness
- FPM
- PackageCloud: Package repositories in the cloud
- RPM Lint
- Debian lint tool
- Winstone Servlet Container
- SpringBoot
- Gradle’s Nebula.os-package
- 58:16 – ToolTip
- Lean UX in New York coming up!
- ChefConf
- Velocity Santa Clara: coming up
- devopsconferences.com has the latest
Tool Tip
Paul introduces us to Gitrob, a tool to help keep your really-private data out of your Git repos.
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