Andrew Merrell

Architecture & Engineering 💼 at Peacock 🦚, NOW, SkyShowtime and Showmax. Not your typical geek 🤓. Love a superhero movie 📽️. Can always be heard laughing 😆. Let's go Dodgers.

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December 18, 2024

Connecting Remote Docker Hosts with Nginx Proxy Manager and Cloudflare Tunnel

Managing multiple Docker hosts can be challenging, especially when you want to avoid overcrowding a single host with containers. To streamline my setup with minimal overhead, I wanted to use tools I was already using.

May 10, 2021

Continuously delivering Akamai property changes

Sky uses the Akamai content delivery network, its a complex and incredibly powerful tool to distribute our website and APIs to customers. Amoung the many capabilities in use by Sky, one of the most common is website delivery via the edge network.

December 1, 2020

Automating pipeline creation on Concourse

Our department has 60 engineers committing to 84 repositories on GitHub, on every pull request and merge we continuously integrate, run tests and perform deployments, multiple times a day.

March 2, 2018

Concourses’ fly execute is a hidden gem

Concourse is an open source continuous deployment system. Heavily focused on pipeline as code — in fact the only way to build a pipeline. The UI is focused on visual representation of the pipeline and result output, offering no ability to build pipelines avoiding snowflakes.