BrettOps

Make success a habit

Rapid and reliable software delivery is the product of habit. We help you develop your framework for consistent, repeatable software delivery and teach you how to execute on it.

Build on solid ground

We maintain a catalog of solutions to common infrastructure problems. We'll use these ingredients to develop a recipe that works for your business, shortening your on-ramp from weeks to days.

We're in this together

Through presentations and one-on-one mentoring, we engage with your team to demonstrate, support, and advocate for better processes, to ensure a successful infrastructure rollout.

Make work visible

Trace the flow of value through your organization, and get the information you need to understand your work products, identify bottlenecks, and accelerate your flow rate.

Test

Quickly roll out test frameworks, static analysis tools, style enforcement, and security scanners, to dramatically improve code quality and reduce costly errors.

Build

Build for every target architecture, platform, and operating system as easily as for your own desktop, and guarantee successful installation before shipping.

Deploy

Easily publish your software to native package managers, public or private, and support internal and external consumers alike using the same tool set.

Python

What Python lacks in speed, it makes up for in versatility and productivity. You can solve problems fast, and everyone on your team can contribute.

Docker

We do containers right, from deploying Kubernetes in the cloud, to Balena on embedded devices, or custom-delivered solutions for your company.

Terraform

Terraform is the gold standard for multi-cloud automation, allowing you to manage hundreds of resources as easily as you would manage one, across services and environments.

GitLab

GitLab is a powerful all-in-one developer platform, and allows you to deliver a robust software supply chain while eliminating the need to stand up dozens of extra services.

Schedule GitLab CI/CD pipelines with Terraform

You run a pipeline on every commit, right? But what if you haven't committed in awhile? In this article, we'll automate a weekly pipeline schedule to exercise all projects, active or not.

Transfer files with ssh

Unix tools are designed to be useful in new ways that tool authors don't anticipate. In this article, we'll use ssh to re-create the functionality of scp.

Write great command line utilities with Python

Learn how to create simple, standalone, useful Python CLI tools to solve even the most mundane infrastructure problems, so that you can start automating everything.

Serve static assets with Cloudflare R2

Cloudflare's S3 offering turns out to be really easy to set up. I'll show you what R2 can do by building an asset CDN for brettops.io.

Build an Inkscape container

We'll walk you through creating an Inkscape container to run in CI jobs, and prove that you can automate just about anything with a command line interface.

Proxy Docker images via GitLab

Docker Hub limits the rate at which you can pull container images. Here's how you can use GitLab's built-in image proxy to get around these limits.

Deliver software that works

Develop a foundation for continual success