How do you auto-provision an application service? This (real-world) example uses Vagrant and Ruby to auto-provision MongoDb for a Java application. installation is a small part of provisioning. Pay attention to the convention used. Understand the convention and you can auto-provision any middleware service using any iaas technology for any application. The 3 Provisioning Steps There are 3 distinct steps
Read moreThe GitLab install on Ubuntu is the subject of this article. GitLab is resource hungry and fails when installed on VirtualBox VMs, Amazon Cloud EC2, and other “light” platforms. How to Install GitLab – 3 Steps Installing GitLab on a VirtualBox VM is first up and then we will discuss the differences for provisioning GitLab in its likely home on
Read moreGit Commands | For What You Need To Know and What You Need to Get Done Before issuing Git commands you need to know where you stand. Your remote repo project, your branches, your local changes, the set and that hasn’t been pushed and the pushed branches that haven’t been merged. You need the Git commands that tell you what
Read moreemacs version control (scm) emacs front end for Git, Subversion, Mercurial, CVS, Perforce, PVCS and SCCS For keyboard enthusiasts (ie productive IT professionals) – the emacs version control abstraction is second to none. Even Tortoise (the de-factor ui for windows) has different windows for Git, Subversion and so on. But the e-macs version control keyboard interfaces are powerful and consistent
Read moreemacs version control (scm) emacs front end for Git, Subversion, Mercurial, CVS, Perforce, PVCS and SCCS For keyboard enthusiasts (ie productive IT professionals) – the emacs version control abstraction is second to none. Even Tortoise (the de-factor ui for windows) has different windows for Git, Subversion and so on. But the e-macs version control keyboard interfaces are powerful and consistent
Read moreIf you manage more than one JAVA module – you’ll need Nexus. Nexus works best alongside JAVA (.jar, .ear, .war) or Groovy or Scala software a Jenkins Continuous Integration Server (or Continuum or Hudson) a Maven or ANT or SBT or Gradle build management tool Before installing your Nexus repository – come see ours, in the flesh. see our Nexus
Read moreRunning Subversion so that it can be accessed via untrusted networks is a common requirement. Sometimes we want Subversion in the cloud, at other times we need it accessible to our extranet, and for open source – we need the software in subversion to be world readable. How do we put Subversion behind the Apache Web Server? How do we
Read moreHow to Install Tortoise on Windows To install Tortoise Subversion (SVN) Client onto a 64 Bit Windows architecture you download and run this MSI installer. Download Tortoise SVN Client for (64-Bit) Windows Now You can also download it straight from the Tortoise SVN Downloads Page. Once you have the installer – run it and Tortoise SVN Subversion client will be
Read moreWhat Is Maven Maven is a build tool. It is great at building Java projects. Maven doesn’t act alone – its power is about bringing a lot of tools together to effect the build. It unites compilers, dependency managers, unit test managers and coverage reporting tools, packagers, javadoc producers and so on. Maven’s greatest power – and the feature that
Read moresvn ignore » The Best Way Go to the directory which holds the file or folder to ignore. svn delete the files to ignore then svn commit -m “Goodbye Files” important – do a svn update Add a file listing the file/folder names to ignore (relative path) Run This » svn propset svn:ignore -F IGNORED_FILES.TXT . The Reply is (property
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