James Carr

Previously we modified our setup to use a role from ansible galaxy to install and configure redis. One key thing lacking here is that one rarely needs to just use a role from ansible galaxy by itself so next up we’ll modify our playbook to…

We’ve been using terraform at Zapier for over a year now and recently I was adding a new feature and looking over our large collection of IAM policy documents that are included through interpolation using the file function. One detail I noticed is that we have a lot of policies…

The Lotus Sutra was my introduction to Mahāyāna and still holds my imagination and thoughts. The vivid scenes, metaphors and similes have a true “sticking power” that are incredibly hard to forget. I still occasionally read a chapter or two from time to time and plan to revisit…

Previously we setup packer, docker and ansible to build a very simple docker image that simply placed a file under /root with some content, a very simple start. Today we’ll go further and explore using ansible roles and making some…