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Monthly Archives: October 2011

LondonCI Meeting, 1st November

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Continuous Integration matters. Configuration Management matters. What happens when you mix the two? Let’s find out. Chris Read and I are speaking at the BCS Configuration Management group meeting on November 1. We’ll be doing our talk from Agile 2011, which I hope will spill over into a massive discussion over nibbles and wine. The [...]

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Atlassian Bamboo Challenge

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Atlassian kicked off the Bamboo Task Master Challenge today. I am honoured to be on the judging panel. What’s it all about? A Continuous Integration server becomes the heart of your development infrastructure. CI servers need to know how to talk to the rest of your systems. So Atlassian are encouraging you to add to [...]

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Everything I know about Continuous Integration, I learned from Systems Administration

Monday, October 17, 2011

I was honoured to give a talk at DevOpsDays Gothenburg on Saturday. Much love to Patrick Debois for encouraging me to submit the talk, and huge props to my erstwhile colleague Tom Sulston for agreeing to co-present. The whole thing was a blast.

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Grunge

Friday, October 14, 2011

2004 will let you keep Subversion a little while longer.

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Vendor news, #DevOpsDays Special

Friday, October 14, 2011

Hello from Gothenburg. Here is the news. ViewTier released ParaBuild 4.1 [link] Atlassian released Bamboo 3.3 [link] Electric Cloud released two new versions of Electric Accelerator 6.0 [link] Amazon now include Puppet and Facter in their AMI’s [link]

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Repository? That’s not a repository …

Monday, October 10, 2011

… this is a repository. I’ve been experimenting with Amazon S3 as a Maven repository. I threw the results up on GitHub [link]. Why? I’ve been working with some nice people who use binary dependencies. In order to scale their CI system past one node, they need a repository manager, to temporarily store built artifacts [...]

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