This is a description of how I created a custom Vagrant box starting from a Lubuntu 14.04 desktop CD.

There are several technologies (in the Python world) to have isolated environments for projects. In this article I will describe how we use Virtualenv, Buildout and Docker for a project I’m working on at Fox-IT.

The Heartbleed bug triggered a review of the configuration of my own web server. As a result I discovered that I had my Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) stapling configured wrong. In this article I will briefly explain OCSP and OCSP stapling, what I had done wrong and what is a—as far as I now know—right way to implement OCSP stapling in Nginx.

Currently I’m working on a project where I have the staging environment running on a virtual machine in a vlan. However, the virtual machine cannot directly access the internet for security reasons. This is inconvenient when I want to e.g. run a buildout to update the project.

Since early April 2013 this blog has moved from a shared hosting environment to a VPS.

Since I keep forgetting the name of this monitoring tool, I decided to create an article so I can jog my memory more easily.

Since April 2012 we are using Whiskers to store information about our Plone and Django buildouts. But when I moved the setup behind SSL, the browser started to complain about unsafe content.

Steve McMahon talked about Plone specific stuff, Christian is going to talk about the stuff around that.

A special version of this talk: no secrets or tricks. It discusses the things that are in mainstream use.

Last year I participated in a deployment knowledge sharing session and I started implementing changes at my company pretty soon after. The result is that we are using Puppet for some parts of our server configuration. We also added Munin to our monitoring toolset (and I used Puppet to deploy Munin and manage its configuration). But an important piece that was still missing in our setup was an overview of which packages we use in the buildouts of our clients and more specifically which version each client uses.