Having recently started working with chef I have come up with a simple method of kickstarting use of it in the small end of town. This really is designed for those of use managing a large number of very similar servers, or a small number of simple servers. After watching this great presentation on chef by @benr from joyent, I decided it was time to roll up my sleeves and get started with chef....
Recently I have been looking into setting up my own build server, having used Cruisecontrol, Hudson, Teamcity in the passed I wanted to give something new a try. With the recent release of Bamboo 3.1.1 I thought I would see what all the fuss is about. I logged onto Atlassian’s site and payed my 10 bucks, which much to my delight and respect, goes to charity. I then spun up a clean Ubuntu server running 10....
Been installing RVM on anything that runs *nix lately, ran into some issues with using this great tool on Ubuntu 10.10. After a bit of reading I discovered a couple of solutions, either I could build and install some of these libraries using RVM, or I could locate and install the dev versions of these libraries in Ubuntu. As I like my libraries updated for security issues and such like I took the later option....