Difference between revisions of "Automated Workspace Setup"
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What doesn't work for Jay and his tribe: | What doesn't work for Jay and his tribe: | ||
| + | Some cool tools don't work on windows | ||
| + | Other wins: | ||
| + | * spinning up entire stack of VMs automatically using jira, amazing stuff. harass [http://twitter.com/noeticpenguin Kevin] until he documents it. | ||
| + | * createing env through jira to enforce naming scheme and other conventions that make it all go. | ||
| + | * source control for database, using liquibase - migrations forwar and back, scripts are under source control. | ||
Open problems: | Open problems: | ||
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Tools: | Tools: | ||
| + | * [http://www.liquibase.org liquibase] DB migrations | ||
* [http://www.cfengine.org/ cfengine] | * [http://www.cfengine.org/ cfengine] | ||
* [http://www.puppetlabs.com/ puppet] | * [http://www.puppetlabs.com/ puppet] | ||
* [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home chef] **Endorsed by [http://bestfriendchris.com Chris] | * [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home chef] **Endorsed by [http://bestfriendchris.com Chris] | ||
Latest revision as of 10:43, 17 April 2010
What's worked for Jay and his tribe:
- homogenous workstation - all windows.
- self extracting zip, with bat files that install ancillary tools (IDE, JDK, etc)
- check registry for latest service packs, if not present get them and install.
- install scripts can also update workspace
What doesn't work for Jay and his tribe: Some cool tools don't work on windows
Other wins:
- spinning up entire stack of VMs automatically using jira, amazing stuff. harass Kevin until he documents it.
- createing env through jira to enforce naming scheme and other conventions that make it all go.
- source control for database, using liquibase - migrations forwar and back, scripts are under source control.
Open problems:
Ideas to pursue:
Tools:
