…scripted, both locally and in CI. We're currently using a solution with Vagrant and Puppet that lets us spin up consistently formatted build boxes.
Leaky Test State
Testing needs to mimic reality to find some types of problems. This presents difficulties for the Ruby agent.
In production, the agent starts once per process. However, in a test run, the agent might restart hundreds of times. We've had to take care to avoid a leaking state between tests. Otherwise we could …
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- Ruby News: Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2013-0269)
…Nginx 1.1.19, Upstart 1.5, OpenJDK 7, upgrades for Puppet and Chef and many more bug and security fixes.
We've included the usual Brightbox Ruby deployment stack and our "next generation" Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.3 packages, as well as the latest Phusion passenger. A significant change from Lucid-based Brightboxes is that Ruby 1.9.3 is now the default , as Ruby 1.8.7 is end-of-life from June 2013. If you still require 1.8.7, the included ruby-switch tool makes …
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu
…writing a lot of shell script to bootstrap VMs, but learning Chef or Puppet is not really that hard.
I find it harder to validate exit codes (again and again and again) in bash than using a DSL (which is what Chef and Puppet essentially are). The code in your cookbooks ( Chef) or manifests ( Puppet) is certainly not faster than a shell script but a lot easier to read and more maintainable in the end.
Bash-scripting is not hard either, but in order to produce a set of scripts …
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…example. This makes role assignments highly script-able, whether you're using Chef, Puppet, or Moonshine.
Fine-tuned for large environments
With the recent notification group changes and now roles, we're making monitoring easier for large environments. Our previous tools -- cloud keys and plugin copy-paste -- were useful, but it was easy for things to get out of sync. Roles our our answer for keeping monitoring in sync in large environments.
Roles in Summary
With Roles, we …
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…Jesse Aukeman , about the different ways they're monitoring the success or failure of Puppet runs.
If you are like us, you are running some type of linux configuration management tool. The value of centralized configuration and deployment is well known and hard to overstate. Puppet is our tool of choice. It is powerful and works well for us, except when things don't go as planned. Failures of puppet can be innocuous and cosmetic, or they can cause production issues, …
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With the Sidekiq Monitor Plugin (by Scott Klein of StatusPage.io ) and the Puppet Last Run Plugin (by Didip Kerabat of Kongregrate ) Scout's plugin directory count has now passed 70 plugins!
The Sidekiq Monitor Plugin monitors key metrics for Sidekiq , a Ruby message processing library. Didip's Puppet Last Run Plugin tracks key metrics for the most recent Puppet run on a monitored server.
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Matthias Marschall wrote a great peice last week on the pitfalls of making manual changes to production systems. TL, DR; Making manual changes in the heat of the moment will bite you at the most inopportune times .
The article finishes out with this suggestion:
You should have your configuration management tool (like Puppet or Chef) setup so that you can try out possible solutions without having to go in and do it manually.
In my experience, this is the key to solving the problem.
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…of managing an army of developer laptops. The Setup uses the CLI and Puppet and has been in development for 6 months. It enables a developer to script a configuration for his laptop (e.g. Apache, Ruby, RVM, a text editor, custom Bash aliases, etc) and have that configuration automatically installed on a new MacBook.
" Adhearsion: Telephony Through Ruby-colored Lenses" [ slides ] by Ben Klang was another presentation I unfortunately had to miss. …
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