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Application Secrets with AWS

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Devops Days DC Presentation Slides: Application Secrets with AWS

Medium Blogs

From LastPass to AWS Parameter Store

Deploying Python Slackbot to Heroku

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Deploying Python based Slackbot to Heroku

I decided to create this guide, because Heroku deployments aren’t always as intuitive as we expect them to be.

Getting Setup

For this guide i forked a popular python based slackbot
Added my own custom responses, i’ll skip this section as lins README is self explanatory
So now your ready to deploy your bot so its a standable entity, heroku is perfect for this because deployment is easy & its free.99

Procfile

A Procfile contains a number of process type declarations, each on a new line. Each process type is a declaration of a command that is executed when a dyno of that process type is started.

Create a Procfile:

web: python run.py

Heroku

Ensure you have a Heroku account and installed their command line tools

heroku update
heroku login

Now its time to create/connect to your heroku app and configure your remote url.

If you don’t have an existing app: heroku create

else: heroku git:remote -a <app-name>

Visit your Heroku Dashboard for your app and ensure you have set the SLACKBOT_API_TOKEN environment variable.

Now that you have your remote url setup:

git push heroku <branch_name>
heroku ps:scale web=1

You will see this error when you visit your heroku URL. This is expected because this is a bot…. not a website so there is no index.html on port 80 ;)

Test your bot on slack!

Blogging with Github and Jekyll

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

So You Want To Blog

Github Pages

Free hosting of your static sites directly from your repository

Jekyll

It takes a template directory containing raw text files in various formats, runs it through a Markdown converter and Liquid template renderer. Then spits out a complete, ready-to-publish static website suitable for serving with your favorite web server.

Simple to use
- No Database
- Focus on content
Static Templates
- Markdown
- Html/CSS

Installation Setup

Log into GitHub and create a new repository named username.github.io, where username is your username (or organization name) on GitHub. Clone your repo in your workspace.

cd workspace
git clone git@github.com:{username}/{username}.github.io
cd {username}.github.io

Clone Starter Blog Template into a separate directory and then manually move contents into your {username}.github.io directory

git clone https://github.com/kave/blog-starter-template

cd into {username}.github.io directory and build & run server

./install.sh
./runserver.sh

Visit Your Blog Page

http://127.0.0.1:4000/

Push to Github

git add .
git cm "My initial blog commit"
git push origin master

Visit url http://{username}.github.io

A List of Wagtail StreamField Icons

Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

##A simple list of StreamField Icons##

To enable the Wagtail Admin Stylesheet for local use.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
   ...
   'wagtail.contrib.wagtailstyleguide',
   ...
)

Access the guide at http://localhost:8000/admin/styleguide/