DevOps

You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!
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Deploying blocks and content to other site environments

If you have a current Drupal site (built in Drupal 8 or later) you no longer need to entirely…

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Don't Play Whack-a-mole on Prod!

If you’re making improvements to your sites, even as simple as pushing updates, you’re going to…

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Deployment and release strategies

When you build a new website, going live is relatively easy. You get ahold of a domain name,…

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What's up on Nerd Mountain? Enterprise Dev Ops for Everybody

Go ahead... Make My Changes in Prod

You thought I was going full "Dirty Harry" there,…

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Ask Freelock: "Traditional hosts" vs "cloud providers"

A client asks about yet another hosting option:

The VPS-2000HA-S includes the following…

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Using modern Javascript for quick utility scripts - bulk search and replace

With as much Javascript work as we're doing these days, I'm starting to do more and more quick…

Post Salt events into a Matrix room

In our quest to get all things into Matrix, we've also sent Salt events into a Matrix room. This…

Post Nagios/Icinga alerts to a Matrix room

We just added Matrix notifications to an old Icinga server we have, because why not? We love…

Operational flow

How do you keep a high bar of quality on dozens of sites every day?

DevOps is the union of development, operations, and quality assurance -- but it's really the…

Drupal 8 Configuration Management in the real world - workflow and gotchas

Panacea, or disaster? Drupal 8 Configuration Management was supposed to solve all our woes when…