How to publish Ansible-container images via Travis-CI
How to publish docker images produced via ansible-container to Docker Hub using TravisCi
Package Apache 2.4.x RPMs via Docker and Ansible-container
In the last months my company started to move all our VMs from Ubuntu-based templates to CentOS ones. Regardless of the reason of this choice (I do not want to start a Ubuntu vs CentOS flame since I’m a fan of both distros) one of the biggest problem was to deal with the Apache Httpd…
Environment templates – part 3 – Deploy
This post is part of the Environment templates thread. In part one I show how to crate a template environment. In part two we used such template to re-create environment and run Integration Tests on it In this last section we will use the same template to produce and deploy a working environment of our purposes.…
Environment templates – part 1 – Create your template
Ok, time for a big topic. Environment templates is a really useful practice which can improve many Continuous Integration areas, so I will probably split its description over several posts. This first post involves, obviously, template creation. The second one will show you how to reuse such template for integration tests automation. Third one will…
11th Scandinavian Software Configuration Management Day
Less than one week ago I’ve been one of the lucky speakers at the 11th Scandinavian Software Configuration Management Day in Lund , Sweden. In the whole academic world there are only 3 university courses on this subject, one in Brazil and the other two in Denmark and Sweden, both hold by Professor Lars Bendix, creator…
Ansible – massively fix bash shellshock
Since the recently discovered bash vulnerabilty is forcing many IT specialist to run massive update to their systems, here you can find a simple ansible script to immediately update all your servers at once, would they be APT or YUM based. — – hosts: “{{deploy_host}}” remote_user: ansible_user sudo: yes vars: pkg_list_deb: – bash pkg_list_rpm: – bash tasks:…
Artifactory in the box
Today I got a very interesting problem to solve: I had to delivery a bunch of libraries to an external developer to let him be able to fully compile a very complex build. Tasks wasn’t easy since he could not simply connect to our local Artifactory to perform the single maven build he would need…
Unit and Integration tests coverage with SonarQube and Jacoco
In this article I want to analyze how to get a full coverage test report of java code inside our SonarQube instance. Lest start from the very beginning: what are Unit and Integration tests? When you develop code you want to be sure that everything runs as expected, both inside your code and when your code…
Video Review – Building Hadoop Clusters
Today I want to review a really interesting video course from Packt: Building Hadoop Clusters. I’ve always been really interested in distributed system and this course proven to be a good starting point. (you can find it at http://bit.ly/1kNiHSr ) As usual you can find the teaser video on YouTube The course can be divided in 2 main…
Video Review: Learning Apache Maven 3
Today I want to propose you the review of another interesting Packt video training: Learning Apache Maven 3. You can have a look to my previous review on a very similar topic here: Video Review: Getting Started with Apache Maven As per all Packt video course you can decide to watch it directly online with…
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