Posts by: Ashley Gerwitz

The Hands-On Labs continues its illustrious journey, at CF Summit Europe, located in The Foundry. Attendees bring their own laptops and they leave with insights on how to incorporate the concepts shared in the labs. What makes these labs useful to the attendees, besides the subject matter, is they are learning from Cloud Foundry experts

It’s time for some good jq magic. I need to know where a specific release is deployed in the current environment. I also need to know which version of that release is deployed in each spot. Specifically, I’m checking for shield, but you can change RELEASE_NAME to whatever you want. export BOSH_ENVIRONMENT=my-bosh-directorexport RELEASE_NAME=shield bosh deployments

Docker images don’t grow on trees, but you shouldn’t buy them from Etsy either. What I mean is, you don’t want your company running on bespoke artisan Docker images based on source code and upstream dependencies that you can’t reproduce 50 times a day, and can’t keep continually updated and secure for the next 10

This guest post is brought to you by our four Summer 2019 Interns, Jason Zhou, Naveed Ahmad, Pururva Lakkad, and Sriniketh Varma Dasarraju. We spent the summer over at Stark & Wayne designing and building the etcd plugin for SHIELD. The basic functionalities include backing up data from etcd and then restoring this data to

A long time ago, we at Stark & Wayne faced a problem with jumpboxen. Every environment needs one, and they have to have all the right tooling loaded on them. We were treating them as a bit of the infrastructure, which meant that we let client infrastructure teams stand them up. A CentOS VM over

You want to automate the deployment of your Azure infrastructure. Great! But now you need to create an account for your automation to access Azure’s API. Azure implements these in the form of what they call App Registrations. In order to create one, you will need access to create accounts in Azure Active Directory. If

This month (August of 2019), we started holding regularly scheduled Roadmap Calls, where the developers and release engineers working on Genesis provide updates, explain where we are at in the roadmap, where we want to go, and answer questions form anyone who pops in. We’ll be holding these calls on the 3rd Tuesday of every

This month (August of 2019), we resumed holding regularly scheduled Roadmap Calls, where the developers and release engineers working on SHIELD provide updates, explain where we are at in the roadmap, where we want to go, and answer questions from anyone who pops in. We’ll be holding these calls on the 4th Thursday of every

This guest post is brought to you by Naveed Ahmad and Pururva Lakkad from our Summer 2019 Internship program. We are interning here at Stark & Wayne for the summer. As mentioned earlier at the blog, we had to choose one project out of the four amazing ones. As a team, we’ve decided to work