The Boy Who Cried Wolf – Why Broken Builds Must Not Be Ignored!
We’ve all heard the fable of the boy who cried wolf, an old tale written by a Greek slave who lived a long time ago and liked telling stories. I must stress thought that this was just a story, but like...
View ArticleSite For Vagrant Base Boxes
A brief conversation with Matt Keating on Twitter finally pushed me over the edge and I’ve built a site I’d been meaning to do for a while.
View ArticleContinuous Integration for the World
In 2008 at Agile Toronto, I did a session on Agile Infrastructure. This is where I met Andrew Shafer (working at Reductive Labs). There wasn't that much attention for it back then, we were still...
View ArticleConverting KVM to VirtualBox
I have had most of my test environment, aka puppetmasters, test mysql setups etc running in KVM for the past couple of years .. (yes I`m still using a lot of Xen in production environments, but we've...
View ArticleSuper Helpful Visualizations for Infrastructure as Code (DevOps)
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...
View ArticleInstalling Vagrant, on Ubuntu Natty
(Warning some Ubuntu ranting ahead) apt-get install virtualbox-ose apt-get install rubygems gem install vagrantThat's what I assumed it would take me to install vagrant on a spare Ubuntu (Natty)...
View ArticleTest Driven Infrastructure with Vagrant, Puppet and Guard
This is a repost of my SysAdvent blogpost. It's merely here for archival purposes, or for people who read my blog but didn't see the sysadvent blogpost. Why Lots has been written about Vagrant. It...
View ArticleMassively Easy Win7 Box Setup From Scratch
Patrick Dubois, the Godfather of DevOps (and a DZone MVB), has created a few open source tools and one of them, VeeWee, is a tool for building boxes for a few of his favorite tools like Vagrant, KVM,...
View ArticleVagrant Plugin for Snapping a Screenshot of All Your VMs
Developers and operations folk were grateful and excited to see the 1.0 release of Vagrant, an open source VM provisioning/management tool that seems to be coming out of obscurity with the help of the...
View ArticleVirtualBox Workaround: Saving Vagrant Images That Don’t Get a NAT Address
As part of testing and demonstrating our advanced deployment automation1 platform Deployit, we at XebiaLabs use a lot of cloud and Devops tooling to be able to handle all the different types of...
View ArticleParallel Provisioning For Speeding up Vagrant
Vagrant is an amazing tool. It's quite substantially changed my workflows in a variety of areas. It's a particularly interesting tool for building packages or running tests across multiple OS's or...
View ArticleAutomatically Download and Install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Vagrant
So, are you already using Vagrant to manage your VirtualBox VMs? Then you probably have realized already how annoying is to keep the VBox guest additions up to date in your VMs. Preview Text: If...
View ArticleOur #Monitoringsucks RPM is Repository Available
Not only our Rubygems Builds have changed, but also my internal #monitoringsucks repository. You might have noticed a variety of vagrant- projects on my github acount Preview Text: The Rubygem Builds...
View ArticleSetting up a Hadoop Virtual Cluster with Vagrant
Usually for testing and using virtual machines, I go online, download the iso image of the machine I want to install, start Virtual Box, tell it to init from the iso, and install the OS manually, and...
View ArticleHow to Test a Puppet Module
Originally authored by Brandon Marc Aurele Preview Text: I am writing this blog to discuss how I went about iteratively testing my puppet module that was created to install the tool Blur. Legacy...
View ArticleInstalling CouchDB on a VirtualBox instance with Chef and Vagrant
This assumes you’ve already installed Virtualbox and configured a base VM.mkdir cookbooks cd cookbooks git clone https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apt git clone...
View ArticleDZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/14/13)
Where Did The Term "Big Data" Come From The NYTimes did some deep investigating into the etymological origins of the biggest buzzword in IT right now.A Reference Tool For Finding Out Which Media...
View ArticleVagrant 1.2.2: Can’t Convert Symbol into Integer (TypeError)
As I mentioned in my previous post I’ve been playing around with Vagrant for the past couple of days and I was trying to adapt a Vagrantfile that Nathan created a few months ago to do what I wanted....
View ArticlePuppet Provisioning with Docker
Lately I’ve been messing quite a bit with Docker and my mind is pretty blown about how awesome it is. Remember that feeling you had the first time you launched a vagrant instance and had a virtual...
View ArticlePacker - Machine Images from the Maker of Vagrant
Packer is a new, open source configuration management tool from Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant. Packer aims to automate the creation of any type of machine image for multiple platforms, from a...
View ArticleBuilding TokuMX and TokuDB for Production
Recently, we’ve seen a few people ask us about building TokuMX from scratch. While it’s best if you just use the binaries you can get from us (they have all the right optimizations, we’ve tested them,...
View ArticleHow to Deploy Cloud Foundry v2 to AWS via Vagrant
Stackato is built on top Cloud Foundry (plus other open source packages), so we're excited about Cloud Foundry v2 and are watching it closely as it evolves. In this post, I'm going to quickly run...
View ArticleUsing Vagrant to Get Up and Running with Apache Kafka
If you haven’t used Vagrant before then hopefully this will not only help you get up and running with Apache Kafka but also get introduced to Vagrant. Vagrant helps to create and configure...
View ArticleGetting Started with Apache Mesos and Apache Aurora Using Vagrant
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. Think of it as the “kernel” for your data center. Paco Nathan...
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