My experience A couple of months ago, while searching google for some odd python syntax, I received an invitation. I documented my code progress and experience over the following week in a GitHub repository as I solved each one of the problems. This was a ton of fun! What is the Google Foobar Challenge Google Foobar challenge is a set of programming challenges. It is reported that Google has used this as recruiting tool to find candidate developers to hire....
The problem In the process of modernizing our puppet infrastructure, I’ve been able to remove/delete many of the custom modules I had written many years ago and use community developed and supported modules from the puppet forge. Many of these modules accommodate a pattern of a single include in the manifest, and putting all the site-specific configuration data (if any) in hiera. That said, some don’t allow this, and resources must be explicitly configured....
Motivation I was creating a TextFSM template, and was disappointed with the lack of syntax highlighting support for this filetype in my favorite text editor. Typically, this is just a plugin away, but an exhaustive search turned up nothing. So, like all good geeks, I rolled up my sleeves and made one myself. Process Over the years, I have written little snippets in my .vim/syntax/ directory, or added some missing syntax to someone else’s syntax plugin, but had never written one from scratch....
The Problem A common issue with infrastructure as code, is that it is often possible for someone to go in after deployment and manually change things. I still want to preserve the ability for the infrastructure folks to go in and make emergency changes, but I also want to discourage this practice as much as possible. To this end, I’ve been using a pattern where any “out of band” changes are alerted to the rest of the team....