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• About: Dev & Devops --- Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. (Ecclesiastes 8:17)

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• Posted Sparrow moves to Perl6 to melezhik

  

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  Hi!

  For those whom it may concerns Sparrow announces move to Perl6. I've have started the ="https://www.reddit.com/r/per…

• Posted Swat v. 0.2.0 to melezhik

  With upcoming version 0.2.0 swat removes usage of prove as internal test runner. There are some -minor-…

• Commented on Make your CPAN module static installable
  HI! Sounds like interesting idea. Thanks for sharing. Sometimes time required for installation of CPAN modules stuff is critical, so this will be definitely useful feature. Keep me in loop (:...
• Posted Outthentic - quick way to develop users scenarios to melezhik

  Whether you are operations guy, devops or developer from time to time you deal with scripts development for various tasks - handy utilities, automation scripts, monitoring tools, so on.

  Outthentic - is universal, language independent framework to encourage scripts development in easy and …

• Posted Automation of ssh/scp commands with sparrowdo to melezhik

  Hi! here is short post on how to automate ssh/scp commands using sparrowdo - configuration management tool, written on Perl6.

  ="https://sparrowdo.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/sshscp…

• Posted How to list BitBucket repositories with sparrow to melezhik

  Listing BitBucket repositories could be annoying task even though BitBucket exposes a Rest API for this, and the reason for it is

• Commented on An informal comparison of sparrow and ansible eco systems
  Hi! First of all I started to play with Perl6 and I liked it, then I wanted to let people writing on Perl6 to try sparrow and tried to promote it there ))) But after all, Sparrowdo is just ssh...
• Posted An informal comparison of sparrow and ansible eco systems to melezhik

  Hi!

  Here is my latest post about Sparrowdo configuration management tool written in Perl6 - Sparrow plugins vs ansible modules - an attempt of informal comparison of sparrow and ansible eco syst…

• Posted Sparrow plugins evolution to melezhik

  Hi! Sparrowdo is a modern configuration management tool written on Perl6. If you wonder how sparrowdo makes a difference you may read this article - Sparrow plugins…

• Posted A blog site for Sparrowdo project to melezhik

  Hi ! Sparrowdo is lightweight and very flexible configuration management system written on Perl6. I have started a blog site where going to drop technical notes and others news related sparrowdo project, welcome to https://sparrowdo.wordpress.com…

• Posted Testing Mojolicious applications with Sparrow to melezhik

  A bits of theory

  In this post I am going to show how you can use Sparrow to test Mojolicious applications.

  Sparrow approach to test things differs from convenient unit tests approach…

• Posted How to upload a script to SparrowHub to melezhik

  This is informal response to David Farrell's article How to upload a script to CPAN.

  Preamble: CPAN is great. This post in no way should be treated as Sparrow VS CPAN attempt. ="https://metacpan.org/pod/Spar…

• Posted sparrow remote tasks - way to package your scripts and configurations. to melezhik

  Idea behind a sparrow is quite simple. You have a script, you package it as sparrow plugin and you can re-use it somewhere else.

  Give me list of available plugins:

  $ sparrow plg search    
  
  type    name
  
  pub…

• Posted SparrowHub Plugins Request to melezhik

  A quick search at github on something like Perl/Bash scripts gives me a lot of results.

  As developers we more think about modules and libraries when talk about software reuse. But in our day-to-day life scripts still take a vital part. Scripts like little, …

• Posted Monitoring minion workers/tasks using Sparrow to melezhik

  Hi! This is small post concerning sparrow plugin to monitor minion workers. I had some post on this recently, but now I have made some improvements at existed plugin, so I am writing a…

• Posted Sparrowdo automation. Part 6. Sparrowdo modules - getting a bigger things using light primitives. to melezhik

  This is what have been seen before:

  • Sparrowdo automation. Part 5. Managing services and processes.

  • ="https://blogs.perl.org/users/melez…

• Posted Outthentic does not rely on Test::More any more. to melezhik

  Finally I decided not to use Test::More and Perl Test-Harness in Outthentic anymore.

  These are the great tools proven in many many testing projects. But Outthentic tends to be more general purpose framework to run ANY sc…

• Posted Sparrowdo automation. Part 5. Managing services and processes. to melezhik

  HI!

  This time I want to tell you how to manage services and processes using sparrowdo.

  Before this post a following list of topics was written by me:

  • S…

• Posted Sparrowdo automation. Part 4. Managing users and groups. to melezhik

  Hi! These are the previous articles:

  • Sparrowdo automation. Part 3. Installing system packages.

  • ="https://blogs.perl.org/users/melezhik/2016/…

• Posted Sparrowdo automation. Part 3. Installing system packages. to melezhik

  HI! I continue blogging about sparrowdo - a simple perl6 configuration management tool.

  This is what we've learned so far:

  • Spar…

• Posted Sparrowdo automation. Part 2. Dealing with http proxy servers. to melezhik

  This is a next post in Sparrowdo automation series.

  The previous one was Installing CPAN packages.

  Sometimes having internet restri…

• Posted Sparrowdo automation. Part 1. Installing cpan packages. to melezhik

  Here I start a series of posts on sparrowdo configuration management tool usage.

  Installing sparrowdo

  Sparrowdo implies installing software on both master and target host. Following "push" approach one should install a sparrowdo on master host…

• Posted sparrowdo sandbox to melezhik

  Hi all!

  Sparrowdo is a new born #perl6 project for configuration management automation. It based on sparrow plugin system.

  A user unfamiliar with sparrow or sparrowdo may check out a ="…

• Posted Sparrowdo - a simple configuration management tool written on Perl6 and consuming sparrow plugins to melezhik

  Hi!

  This is the very first ( to take it for a spin ) release of sparrowdo - a simple configuration management tool written on Perl6 and consuming sparrow plugins.

  This is where Perl5, Pe…

• Posted How to write a simple nginx installer with sparrow in 4 minutes - nice asciinema video! to melezhik

  A simple nginx installer with #sparrow - nice asciinema video!

  https://asciinema.org/a/06h3ezswbyidu0pdl993rl30v

  #nginx #perl #devops #automation

  And ... yeah I forgot to say …

• Posted https://sparrowhub.org updated to melezhik

  HI ! https://sparrowhub.org/ site updated! A various changes of index page:

  • welcome text distilled to make it sparrow usage more clear and understandable
  • a look-and-feel screenshots added
  • a links to tutorials, documentation pag…
• Posted Building docker images with sparrow to melezhik

  This is a paper written in Russian on building docker images with sparrow - https://habrahabr.ru/post/302278/

• Commented on Playing with Docker and Sparrow
  Thanks to Sebastiaan van Stijn a guy from Docker team, a shorter form of building the image would be: $ sudo docker build -t melezhik/gitprep https://github.com/melezhik/docker-projects.git#:gitprep...
• Posted Playing with Docker and Sparrow to melezhik

  Docker is quite popular solution to rapidly spin up developers environments. I have been playing with it and it seems fun for me. The other fun thing I found that Sparrow could be a good solution to build up new…

• Posted Installing docker engine on Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (LTS) using sparrow to melezhik

  While playing with docker I created a simple sparrow plugin to install docker engine on Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (LTS) -

Comment Threads

• Shoichi Kaji commented on Make your CPAN module static installable

  @brian d foy

  > I'd like to support this in cpan(1)

  It's awesome, I'd love to see it!

  > I didn't see a definition for "not complicated" that I'd have to support.

  Yeah, it is true that we may not say that the spec defines static installable CPAN distributions clearly.

  For the time being, I think you can refer to a static builder in Menlo (and ="https://github.com/miyagawa/…

• Shoichi Kaji commented on Make your CPAN module static installable

  I compared the elapsed time for installation of Plack in
  https://gist.github.com/skaji/24de4a819ca4a84b2018f5ee996ac52a

  Then
  * Non-static-install took 28sec
  * Static-install took 9sec

  That is, static-install is 3x faster. Wow!

• Ken Williams commented on Make your CPAN module static installable

  Hi there,

  Does this relate to the existing `dynamic_config` flag that I added to `Module::Build` (around 15 years ago!)?

  http://search.cpan.org/~leont/Module-Build-0.4220/lib/Module/Build/API.pod

  I don't quite understand the relationship between `x_static_install` and `dynamic_config` - for instance, the cpan-static spec only mentions `dynamic_config`, and your post above only mentions `x_st…

• Shoichi Kaji commented on Make your CPAN module static installable

  Hi Ken, thanks for your comment.

  > Does this relate to the existing `dynamic_config` flag that I added to `Module::Build` (around 15 years ago!)?

  CPAN::Meta::History::Meta_1_4 says:

  dynamic_config:
  A boolean flag indicating whether a Build.PL or Makefile.PL (or similar) must be executed when building this distribution, or whether it can be built, tested and installed solely from consulting its metadata file.

  On the other hand, current ="…

• Shoichi Kaji commented on Make your CPAN module static installable

  ether pointed out in IRC that Dist::Zilla::Plugin::StaticInstall checked more criteria for the static install. You can use it by:

  ; dist.ini
  
  [StaticInstall]
  
  mode = on