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Recently, I got a bug report for the kitchen-vcenter driver, which allows lifecycle management of testing VMs on VMware vCenter environments. Apparently, a customer tried to create a VM without any network interface. The problem was that this crashed in a
This is a live Blog from the workshop “Cloud Driven Development” on https://devopenspace.de/. Forget a lot of what you know about classic full-stack development. Together, we’ll dive into cloud-driven software development and build a sam
End of September 2021, AWS announced Graviton 2 powered Lambda Functions. The announcement post says “All Lambda runtimes built on top of Amazon Linux 2, including the custom runtime, are supported on Arm…”. Not all languages out of the
Viele Unternehmen und insbesondere solche in der Finanzbranche stellen sich die Frage, ob sie ihre IT oder Teile dieser überhaupt in die Cloud migrieren dürfen. Ja, die Cloud skaliert gut, sie schafft bessere Verfügbarkeit lokal wie global, sie fördert Ag
It is time for a follow-up to my blog post from last year - especially as Test Kitchen 3.0 changed some defaults. Let’s check some cargo-culted settings out in this blog post.
Currently, users of Chef are limited to working with the platforms supported by the Chef core. But with the advancements of Target Mode, the story could change quickly. Learn about the idea of a “Platform Support Pack” and what it could mean f
In this post, we will set it all up for easy working in Visual Studio Code. Let’s start!
While Infrastructure-as-Code slowly becomes omnipresent, many of the communicated advantages of the approach stay mostly unrealized. Sure, code style checks (linting) and even automated documentation get more common every month. But one of the cornerstone
AWS BI solution Amazon QuickSight provides a neat and powerful web console to handle most use cases. Nevertheless, as soon as a need for automation appears, relying on IaC can help increase productivity.
We, as tecRacer, thrive on our individual and unique employees. In our new series “Insider Stories” Terraformi will tell you how it found its way to the company as well as how it experiences working for tecRacer.
Recently, I blogged about a security incident where CloudTrail was not set up to log S3 data events. But while this is the most common type of data events, there are some more. And one of them has really scary implications. But good news: you can protect
As AWS Cloud adoption becomes more widespread throughout the industries, challenges arise how to govern IT resource usage and implement a coherent management for systems across on-premises and the AWS Cloud. This blog post gives insights in how the AWS of
In today’s post, I will talk about a hacking investigation I recently took part in. We will look into what went wrong, what the attackers did, and how we can improve detection and prevention to manage such incidents better.
To our pleasant surprise, Chef awarded tecRacer the “2021 Technology Partner of the Year” title at the opening keynote of ChefConf 2021.
We, as tecRacer, thrive on our individual and unique employees. In our series “Insider Stories” Matthias will tell you how he found his way to the company as well as how he experiences working for tecRacer.