Tom Elliott

@telliott.me

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DevOps enthusiast. Posts bi-weekly on https://thefridaydeploy.substack.com/, occasional public speaker.

Entrance of the Modal office, showing the company logo and a "Welcome to Modal" sign
Thank you for catching my mistake! It's important to use actual API features rather than making them up.
A stack of books with an open book on top.
A gingerbread man covered in fairy lights laying face down on the ground
View of a 3D Map of NYC buildings, showing Manhattan as viewed from above south Brooklyn
Trail of small footprints in snow on a platform
Bottles of “malk”
A screenshot of a web page in a pixel art form showing a set of connected cloud resources.
A screen recording of a terminal showing a session in the Ocuroot REPL. The help() command is run showing a tree view of available values and functions, then the documentation for the environments function is displayed and finally a build function is run showing the "done" return structure.
Graph from vemetric.com showing a spike at 6am.
Screenshot of a terminal running the Ocuroot REPL. A function call has been made to `files_in_go_build("./cmd/ocuroot")` resulting in output of a list of files.
A set of cloud resources with connections. Services are shown having dependencies on object storage and databases.
A simple UI showing a set of cloud resources in a staging and production environment. There are a mix of databases, services and object stores.
Update from the last few days of work on the Ocuroot CLI, including a new --dryrun flag to see outstanding work to be done, and a --comprehensive mode to run continuously to a stable state. 00:00 Bug Fixes and Improvements 01:12 Comprehensive Flag Addition 02:24 Deleting Production Environment
Screenshot of the Ocuroot CLI showing indented grouping for a repo and config file.
The Ocuroot logo, a stylized eye with three "roots" at each edge, next to a screenshot from Alien: Earth with a creature that looks like an eye with tentacles.
Stage at GopherCon lit up in blue, showing the 2025 logo
A pair of glasses on top of a calendar, with January open.
A laptop on a small table in front of a tree covered in yellow lights.
Screenshot from the Ocuroot UI showing a set of inputs and outputs. The outputs include a multi-line string rendered as preformatted text.
Screenshot of a release in the Ocuroot state view UI, showing a new heading layout. "Release 0.3.7" is a full-sized heading, shown below "parent" links to the github.com/ocuroot/ocuroot repo and the "release.ocu.star" config file.
Terminal screenshot showing `ocuroot repl release.ocu.star` being started, and the command `print(host.shell("ls",mute=True).stdout)` being run inside it.
Split view showing inputs and outputs from a function called "_deploy" with inputs and outputs on the left and logs on the right. The function and the broader work it is part of are both marked as successful.
Green text on black background. A tree view showing structure of a URI hierarchy, broken up based on the presence of a state file.
A cat curled up in a small cat bed next to a blue toy.
A Waymo-branded self-driving car parked on a side street in front of a tree.
A terminal screenshot showing a deployment to staging with a tree of output names and their values
An image recreating an eclipse, with a blurred corona effect behind a black circle.
An icon surrounded by a random circular graphic equalizer-type view.
A network of wooden walkways around apartment buildings, surrounded by trees.
Banner image for a Scaling Tech Podcast (from agility feat) event titled "Managing Deployments and DevOps at Scale". Wednesday June 25, 2025 at 12:00 noon Eastern US.
Code snippet in Starlark: oses = ["linux", "darwin", "windows"] arches = ["amd64", "arm64"] def build(ctx): os = ctx.inputs.os arch = ctx.inputs.arch version = ctx.inputs.version # Build the binary for this platform output = "./.build/{os}-{arch}/ocuroot".format(os=os, arch=arch) host.shell("GOOS={os} GOARCH={arch} go build -o {output} ./cmd/ocuroot".format(os=os, arch=arch, output=output)) # Upload to R2 host.shell( "rclone copy {output} ocuroot_binaries:client-binaries/ocuroot/{version}/{os}-{arch}".format( os=os, arch=arch, output=output, version=version, ) ) # Output the URL for future use url = "https://downloads.ocuroot.com/ocuroot/{version}/{os}-{arch}/ocuroot".format(os=os, arch=arch, version=version) return done(outputs={"download_url": url}) phase( name="build", work=[ call( build, name="build_{os}_{arch}".format(os=os, arch=arch), inputs={"os": os, "arch": arch, "version": ref("./call/increment_version#output/version")}, ) for os in oses for arch in arches ], )
Code screenshot: ocuroot("0.3.0") load("./tasks.ocu.star", "build", "up", "down") envs = environments() staging = [e for e in envs if e.attributes["type"] == "staging"] prod = [e for e in envs if e.attributes["type"] == "prod"] phase( name="build", work=[call(build, name="build")], ) phase( name="staging", work=[ deploy( up=up, down=down, environment=environment, inputs={ "input1": ref("./call/build#output/output1"), "previous_count": ref("./@/deploy/{}#output/count".format(environment.name), default=0), }, ) for environment in staging ], )
Screenshot of a Jaeger trace showing the steps involved in a partial run of a release with Ocuroot.
A screenshot of a terminal showing recommendations for approving next steps in a release using a release id and tag.
A blue sky seen looking up through trees, with sunlight from above.
A form asking the user to provide a secret called "sc", or skip it entirely.
A screenshot showing an MCP configuration for the Ocuroot client in the Windsurf config file.
Referrer stats for a website, with 1 view from ChatGPT.
A small, black PC on a wooden desk next to a power strip. The box is labelled “Beelink Mini S”.
Screenshot of a Finder window with the right click menu opened showing the "Import from iPhone" feature with options to "Take Photo" and "Scan Document".
A log display in a web UI including text and background colors.
A screenshot of a UI component for showing progress in a release pipeline.
A set of circular progress indicators showing a green check for completion, a red x for failure and a clock for pending. The surrounding circles show active progress.
A woman wearing a nun's habit with white makeup, an inverted cross on her forehead, orange eyes and streaks of black from her eyes.