Posted by DI Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 19, 2012
Tags: crowbar, openstack, opschef
Crowbar uses its own opens source Chef instance. After a default installation it is not very easy to update cookbooks from your local development environment. This howto describes a more usable configuration of local crowbar environment.
Continue Reading…Posted by DI Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 11, 2012
Tags: crowbar, openstack, opschef
First get the project files from the Github repository.
git clone https://github.com/iteh/crowbar-virtualbox.git
Provide a transportable virtual environment for crowbar/openstack
The solution is inspired by:
vagrant virtualbox hostonly pxe vlans
Its opinionated in a sense as we need ubuntu-12.04 to work, so fork and help to make it more useable for other distros :-)
Continue Reading…Posted by DI Edmund Haselwanter on Apr 16, 2011
Tags: java, ruby, vagrant
This Vagrant project on github ( https://github.com/iteh/vagrant-demos/ ) showcases the application cookbook for chef
read on iteh.at
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Mar 12, 2010
Tags: ruby
And again Ryan Bates did a great screencast. This time on mechanize
“Mechanize extends the power of Nokogiri allowing you to interact with multiple pages on the site: click links, submit forms, etc.”
And if you ever wanted to extract the history of an IRB session, here it is:
puts Readline::HISTORY.entries.split("exit").last[0..-2].join("\n")
and another great tool from this episode:
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Nov 02, 2009
Tags: http basic auth, mysql, rails
I recently had to develop a small application for a client. The goal was to add a feature to grown Java web application.
As the software was maintained for several years there are users with old an new MySql passwords in the system.
Continue Reading…Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 14, 2009
Tags: chef, opschef, opscode, opscookbook, sysadmin
Recent releases of chef from opscode provide a new resource: ruby_block
This is really great news as this allows for interesting problem solving.
Consider you want to do a very special HTTP request. E.g. a GET to localhost but with custom “Host” header information.
Continue Reading…Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 13, 2009
Tags: apache2, chef, opschef, opscode, opscookbook, sysadmin
Install and run the webalizer with Chef from Opscode
http://github.com/ehaselwanter/cookbooks/tree/COOK-195/webalizer
As DRY as possible ;-)
Continue Reading…Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 11, 2009
Tags: ping.fm, radiantcms
I just created a simple Ping.fm extension for RadiantCMS on github: ping.fm extension
With this you can have updates to your site automatically send details to your
Ping.fm account. All you’ll need to do is provide your account information in the Radiant::Config settings.
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 11, 2009
Tags: chef, Glassfish, java, opschef, opscookbook, Sun
Install and run the Sun Glassfish Application Server from Sun with Chef from Opscode
At the moment its really dumb and just installs Glassfish and runs it:
http://github.com/ehaselwanter/cookbooks/tree/COOK-191/glassfish/
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Sep 29, 2009
Tags: ant, centos, cruise, Thougthworks
This is on howto use apache ant 1.7.1 in Cruise 1.2 from Thoughtworks
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