fnichol

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

Installation

The Ruby Way! (Fun)

altrive

#Create OS BaseImage VHD
function New-OSBaseImage
{
[Cmdletbinding()]
param(
    $VhdPath,
    $OSImageName,
    $MediaPath,
    $VhdConfig,
    $DismConfig,

botchagalupe

Devopsdays NYC Oct 18, 2013 - The Widgets Inc Dilemma http://www.slideshare.net/botchagalupe/dodnyc-sotu-oct-2013

Devops Meetup - Sept 18 & 19, 2013 - Devops Meetup MSP and CHI - Ref https://gist.github.com/botchagalupe/d548d94691fcf1b79013

Khan Academy More on Nash Equilibrium http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Certainty-information-infrastructure/dp/1492389161/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382095446&sr=8-1&keywords=mark+burgess

Mark Burgess -In Search of Certainty: The science of our information infrastructure... http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Certainty-information-infrastructure/dp/1492389161/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382095446&sr=8-1&keywords=mark+burgess

Deming - New Economics - System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK)... http://www.amazon.com/The-Economics-Industry-Government-Education/dp/0262541165/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367416670&sr=8-1&keywords=deming+new+economics

juliandunn

A Quick Tour of A Chef Client Run Internals

Dan DeLeo appeared on the FoodFightShow some time ago to walk through "what a Chef run really does". I expanded on these remarks in my personal investigation.

/usr/bin/chef-client

• bin/chef-client creates a new Chef::Application::Client (subclass of Chef::Application which sets up common things like loggers across chef-client, chef-solo, knife, etc.) then jump to:

• lib/chef/client.rb

• application classes create a new Chef::Client object, which calls initialize().

lamont-granquist

This has been moved into the official Chef docs:

https://docs.chef.io/custom_resources_notes.html

12.5 style custom resources

This is by far the most recommended way of writing resources for all users. There are two gotchas which we're working through:

1. For helper functions that you used to write in your provider code or used to mixin to your provider code, you have to use an action_class do ... end block.