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November 19, 2019

I had slightly neglected this blog for a while - I had a lot of drafts and random notes about the place because my local build for Jekyll was taking 12 to 40 minutes to build. I had a few hours to kill so it was finally time to give this a bit of time.

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Upgrading Basil Faulty to DonkeyCar v3.1.0

November 12, 2019

Today I’m upgrading my DonkeyCar Basil Faulty to donkey v3.1.0! A number of members of the Hackerspace have got the DonkeyCar training working on Windows (rather than a Linux Virtual Machine) and there have been a number of updates since my last install so what better time to upgrade?

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CI/CD Pipeline using Node.js and Jenkins - 6: Creating and Destroying Droplets

October 15, 2019

After getting my CI/CD pipeline up and running, I needed an easier way to create droplets from snapshots so that process wasn’t so time-consuming.

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CI/CD Pipeline using Node.js and Jenkins - 5: Deployment

October 01, 2019

Now that the Continuous Integration part of my pipeline was working, today I got the Continuous Delivery/Deployment part working to automatically deploy to the live server.

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CI/CD Pipeline using Node.js and Jenkins - 4: Jenkins Issues

September 17, 2019

Last time I did the initial configuration of Jenkins but I’m having a few issues. Today I’ll be troubleshooting these issues and making sure GitHub and Jenkins are hooked up correctly, and that all the automated tests run and pass successfully.

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CI/CD Pipeline using Node.js and Jenkins - 3: Configure Jenkins

September 03, 2019

Today I’m carrying on with my CI/CD pipeline by creating the Jenkins server that will do the automated testing and deployment of the Node-App.

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CI/CD Pipeline using Node.js and Jenkins - 2: Security Issues

August 20, 2019

In my last blog post I set up the HelloWorld Node.js app on a Digital Ocean droplet. Today, I had a few security and access issues when re-creating the server using the snapshot I took previously.

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CI/CD Pipeline using Node.js and Jenkins - 1: Hello World Server App

August 06, 2019

Jenkins is an open source automation server that can be used to set up a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to streamline the deployment process. I wanted to set it up for my next project; a Node.js server that I could use for a lot of my future projects - I want to create a RESTful API that I can use for any of my projects that need to communicate with a central server.

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