DevOps - The SAS Workshops Blog

Are Your Lights On?

What is the real problem? Whose problem is it? Who has the power to fix it? and how do you motivate that person to fix the problem?

Software tools , Continuous Integration , DevOps , Software Engineering

SAS-GCLI-TOOLS Update

The first step in setting up CI/CD is being able to perform common tasks from the CLI. Here are a set of tools to do just that.

How to , DevOps

Compressing KVM Disks for Win10 VMs

If you are using VMs at all, it makes sense to compress them to save disk space. Here's how to do it for KVM with Win10 guests.

Continuous Integration , DevOps , Software Engineering , Coding Philosophy

What is the Value Proposition of CI/CD?

Do you use CI/CD? If not, why not? If so, what benefits do you see?

Continuous Integration , Software Engineering , DevOps

CI/CD workshop

At SAS Workshops we believe in "Small Steps and Fast Feedback". Having a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is a large part of that.

Continuous Integration , Software tools , DevOps , SCC , How to

Git SubModules and GitLab CI

I generally prefer using VIPM to share code, but sometimes submodules are useful. However, using them with GitLab CI can be tricky.

Book Reviews , Coding Philosophy , DevOps

Thinking in Systems

This book is a recipe for social and organizational change. It is about predicting and influencing the complex systems we've built.

Book Reviews , Coding Philosophy , DevOps

The Phoenix Project is a must-read book for anyone who works in technology. If you have ever worked in a larger company you will immediately identify with the situation described at the beginning of the book. You have an overworked IT department that seems disorganized and is always behind on

Continuous Integration , Software tools , DevOps

What is Docker?

I recently posted a book review for a book about learning Docker. I immediately got some feedback that I did not do a great job of explaining exactly what Docker is. This post is going to be a brief explanation of exactly what Docker is and particularly how it compares

Book Reviews , Continuous Integration , DevOps

Docker in Action

Note: for more on Docker itself, see here. Chris Stryker has recently put a lot of effort into getting LabVIEW to run inside of a Docker Container. This is really exciting news. I think this is really a huge step forward in improving Continuous Integration (CI) with LabVIEW. It offers