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What doesn't work for Jay and his tribe:
 
What doesn't work for Jay and his tribe:
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Some cool tools don't work on windows
  
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Other wins:
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* spinning up entire stack of VMs automatically using jira,  amazing stuff. harass [http://twitter.com/noeticpenguin Kevin] until he documents it.
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* createing env through jira to enforce naming scheme and other conventions that make it all go.
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* source control for database, using liquibase - migrations forwar and back, scripts are under source control.
 
Open problems:
 
Open problems:
  
 
Ideas to pursue:
 
Ideas to pursue:
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Tools:
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* [http://www.liquibase.org liquibase] DB migrations
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* [http://www.cfengine.org/ cfengine]
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* [http://www.puppetlabs.com/ puppet]
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* [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home chef] **Endorsed by [http://bestfriendchris.com Chris]

Latest revision as of 11:43, 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: