Kris Buytaert12/20/11
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This is a repost of my article earlier posted at Jordan Sissel's awesome SysAdvent
Be sure to tell us how you like your Java in our latest Ask DZ postAfter years of working in Java-based environments, there are a number
of things that I like to...
Mitch Pronschinske12/20/11
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Config management is a big deal for any IT organization that intends to scale up its operations, and it's certainly getting more attention and broader application with the DevOps movement. I found an interesting CM crossroads blog by Joe Farah that tries to...
Mitch Pronschinske12/19/11
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At Scholastic, Inc., the Web Hosting Department practices DevOps in
action, leveraging both their development abilities and their sysadmin
skills to improve and modify the behavior of software using ops and
infrastructure tweaks. A diverse but very...
Paul Jenson12/19/11
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You’re in charge of establishing a department-wide deployment
automation capability. Your fellow developers are excited about it, and
their managers are too. There is no shortage of ideas on how it might
work:
“Let us create our own...
Patrick Debois12/19/11
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A big thanks to Atlassian for allowing me to post this series!!
In our previous blogpost on Puppet Versioning,
we described the most basic check to see if a puppet manifest was
valid. We used the parseonly function to see if it would...
James Betteley12/18/11
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Here’s the problem:
Your application has numerous config files, and the values in these
config files differ on every server or every environment. You hate
manually updating the values every time you deploy your applications to a
new environment,...
Mitch Pronschinske12/18/11
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Puppet and MCollective are critical to building and scaling
infrastructure as well as applications that are reliable and resilient.
Once deployed and running, it is also critical to continuously ensure
proper performance and service health. As such...
Robin Bramley12/18/11
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This is a quick post to describe the steps involved with getting
Hudson to deploy a Grails application to a remote Tomcat server.
Tomcat
First up you’ll need to ensure that Tomcat has the manager application installed (e.g. on Debian Lenny the...
Mitch Pronschinske12/17/11
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The cloud reinforces some old concepts of building highly scalable
architectures and introduces some new concepts that entirely change the
way applications are built, developed and deployed. In order to leverage
the full potential of the cloud and enjoy...
Cody Powell12/16/11
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Continuous deployment sounds
terrifying. It means that with each commit you make to your version
control, your code is pulled down, all tests are run, and, if everything
passes, that code is then pushed to production. Let me repeat: that
happens...
Mitch Pronschinske12/16/11
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Developers deploy production code more than 30 times per day at
Etsy. Small, rapid changes allow us to move fast, detect failure, and
respond quickly. This works for a number of cultural and technical
reasons. Learn about the tool we built,...
Patrick Debois12/16/11
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A big thanks to Atlassian for allowing me to post this series!!
Running tests from within the VM
After I covered Puppet Unit Testing, the logical step is writing about Behavioral testing.
While writing this , I can up with a good...
Kris Buytaert12/15/11
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Last week I was in Boston for my 1st and their 25th Edition of the Large Infrastructure System Administration Conferences
Lisa was pretty much all I expected from it. Old Unix wizards with long
hair and white beards, the usual suspects, and a mix of...
Mitch Pronschinske12/15/11
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Today DevOps-coiner Patrick Dubois tweeted: "wow - @guttertec visualized my ideas so much better". The link in that tweet was to a slideshare stack posted by Alex Quack which I will now share with you so that you too can go "wow - very...
Mitch Pronschinske12/15/11
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Luke Kanies, the founder of Puppet and Puppet Labs brings up a good point in his most recent video presentation. IT folks need to adapt or risk being replaced by a bash script. Here's the video abstract:"There is a lot of discussion about DevOps...
Mitch Pronschinske12/14/11
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Prompted by Patrick Dubois' recent blog post on Puppet unit testing, Nikolay Sturm followed up with a blog related to the cucumber-puppet on discussion that ensued. He's got an example project up on GitHub for your viewing pleasure. Here's three points on...
Jim Bird12/14/11
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Everyone knows from reading The Mythical Man Month that as you add more people to a software development project you will see diminishing marginal returns.When
you add a person to a team, there’s a short-term hit as the rest of the
team slows down to...
Patrick Debois12/13/11
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This year LISA (Large Installation System Administration) 2011 Conference has a theme on "devops".
The LISA crowd has been practicing automation for a long time, and
many of them just look at devops as something they have always been...
Gareth Rushgrove12/13/11
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I’m not sure how novel this approach is but a few folks at work hadn’t seen it before so I thought it worth jotting down.
If you have even a small but dynamic set of servers then a
problem arises with how those nodes are defined...
Mitch Pronschinske12/12/11
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Check it out. A lot of provocative new tweeters have entered the #DevOps Domain:
@lynxbat
Nicholas Weaver #DevOps is not right if it is implemented via a ton of single instance + limited domain control points in the toolset.
...
Dror Helper12/12/11
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I was listening to another good Hanselminuets podcast - Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan.
As always it was a good and informative show. Towards the end of the
show one of the interviewees (I think it was Amir) explained why...
Jens Schauder12/12/11
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Last week we kicked of a “Testing Skill Group” at LINEAS,
a group for exchanging knowledge about testing. One question that came
up over and over again in various flavors was: What tools are there for
testing and analyzing your code? So here is my...
Patrick Debois12/12/11
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A big thanks to Atlassian for allowing me to post this series!!
There is NO reason, not to use a version control system
while developing puppet manifest/modules. Stating that should be an open
door. It allows you to go back in time, share things more...
Greg Duncan12/11/11
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This is an interesting project that came to light via a comment on another post (here). I dig the idea of how this would seem to make deployment and sharing or snippets easier...Project Description:This tool can convert
snippet file to vsi file. This tool...
Mitch Pronschinske12/10/11
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This presentation is for those who are about to start deploying Puppet,
in the early stages of deployment or those who have a large number of
existing systems to bring under puppet control. The presenter will talk
about how Sun Microsystems went from...
