I really hate Jenkins for several non-objective reasons and it's not a classic hatred, more a life struggle where all episode begin by my signature on an employment contract. Most societies made the effort to open a private Gitlab but ask them to forget Jenkins and move into CI tools into SaaS is clearly unbelievable.

It is ...

I have long refused to use tox in my Python projects, I though to test code against multiple version Python was a task which should be made by CI tools. After contribute to several projects, I learned to appreciate it when I want to test code with different aspects. I was wrong and for me ...

The framework is a bit old and has already crossed a little piece of the IT's history. Let's follow the resume of Django's life, its well known third applications, links with Python and related events:

Every one has already test a big sized app realizes he must write his own test framework for make clear tests with easy reading and usage. For example, Django has its own test framework, inherited from unittest, for ease tests for models, views, mails and more. Even with Django I sometimes need to create modules ...

I work since short time at Outscale, it is a cloud provider using a Amazon like API. Like HP Eucalyptus, Outscale made the choice to copy/paste AWS's API and takes benefits of the most used cloud API with:

• A well known API with many third part tools
• A simple transition between them and AWS ...

Like all serious data this blog needs to be save in case of disaster and as a cloud native app it should be able to be ran in every platform and to be operational after a backup restored. A Django backup is generaly a database dump coupled with a media files copy.

Instead of use ...

In Python packaged projects where I work, I used to add a make register command for create a new version of my package. This launch a script I wrote which make the following things:

1. Get the version number written in package
2. Create a git tag
3. Push the tag to the upstream
4. Create a package
5. Upload ...

In some projects when I write unit test, I sometime need to have fixtures: a set of objects ready to use. As a Djangonaute, I used to deal with Factory Boy and django fixtures system but sometimes I can't use neither and for small usage list comprehesion or dict comprehension make the job.

For ...

Most users uses Libcloud only for make request against a compute service. In fact the library covers several IaaS components:

• Authentication
• Compute service
• Object storage and CDN
• DNS
• Load balancers

A driver is a Python class which after instanciation will allow you to handle one the service listed above (except authentication).

So, what's a ...

In past I worked for CloudScreener.com as DevOps, I had in my responsabilities clouds benchmark. Computes' performances was mesured against a lot VMs categorized by the current parameters:

• Size or flavor: Number of vCPU, RAM size and root volume size
• Image: Chosen OS
• Location: Datacenter or region

As many public clouds don't use ...