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mineOps - Part 4: Containers Have Joined the Party

In Part 3 we started to use Git to track our files for the company and then put these files in GitHub as our remote repository. Business is good, we've got Minecraft Servers running and happy customers, but trouble is on the horizon. Despite things going well, our CEO has

mineOps - Part 3: Keeping it together with Git

In Part 2 of this series we began to use Ansible to manage our customer servers from deployment, backup and configuration. We ended that post discussing what to do with all of those files which has led us here, to Git. There are some out there who are not familiar

mineOps - Part 2: Automation with Ansible

In Part 1 of this series we went over manually deploying a Minecraft Server as part of a fictitious business to show their journey of growth through DevOps. In this post we will go over automating all that was done in Part 1 through Ansible. We will also touch on

mineOps - Part 1: Manual Minecraft Server Installation

As was discussed in the Introduction to this series, we will be focusing on deploying Minecraft Servers as part of a fictitious business. This business needs to get up and going with their first customer, so we need to get at least one Minecraft Server up and running. Let's get

DevOps Through Minecraft

What is DevOps? Development + Operations aka DevOps has been a buzz word for some quite some time now. Most people in the Technology industry probably have some idea of what it is or what they perceive it to be. Kelsey Hightower has once called it "Support groups for sysadmins" which

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