{"id":199,"date":"2017-12-22T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2017-12-26T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T21:19:57","slug":"this-old-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"This Old Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I originally created this blog as a way to document my career-work. I have a real passion for what I do and I truly enjoy sitting down and looking for refinements in an existing system or process. Still, my personal passion is not my career. I draw a clear line between my personal interests and the work I do to pay the bills. I know that doesn’t work for all people. We’re told to follow our passions and I do but just not through my 9-5 type work.<\/p>\n

Still, I haven’t written about my work in a long time, so here’s my attempt to lay out some of the projects I’ll be working on and documenting next year.<\/p>\n

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  1. Automate the deployment of all our internal applications. Currently our\u00a0internal tools\u00a0are upgraded manually and approximately every six months. I’d like to be able to do that on a regular basis and have it be touchless. I’ve already laid the groundwork, demoed it to my team, and I’m over 50% complete.<\/li>\n
  2. Create a SSP for common requests we currently handle. There’s a lot of work that’s simple and repetitive for us (like creating repos, build configurations, user provisioning) that we’d be better off not dealing with. I propose a self service portal for teams to use to get these things done faster and without us being directly involved with each request.<\/li>\n
  3. Automate all of our release procedures. We do some work, like release branching andcertain packaging tasks, manually today. I’ve already automated a lot of this but it needs to be rolled out fully so some of our tasks become virtually touchless.<\/li>\n
  4. Completely automate provisioning of our build infrastructure and expose the provisioning scripts to engineering so they can review, propose changes, or even make those changes themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So yeah, I think the theme of 2018 is automation and standardization. It’s gonna be a good year, just gonna send it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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