This release adds a feature for setting user passwords on Solaris, fixes a bug in Resource.const defined?, and adds SSL root certificates to the Omnibus packages.
Ranjib Dey added support for Google Cloud Engine Linux ( GCEL), Google's Ubuntu derivative. Thanks Ranjib! You're this releases MVP! In addition to building out more cloud support, Ranjib has been a great addition to the community, helping many others with Chef and Chef testing. Lately he's been …
…part of your default Linux server setup, but it's pretty easy to get going. For Ubuntu 10.04, you can check out this gist with instructions on getting decent rendering quality .
*To accommodate passing parameters along from an HTML email to our Rails app, I've released URLcrypt, an open-source, MIT-licensed Ruby library for ‘elegant' encrypted URLs . Alternatively, you could also use a table the holds tokens, but I find encrypting the account/user …
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Ubuntu Precise is the current Long Term Support ( LTS) version of Ubuntu with bug and security fixes provided until April 2017. Highlights include the Linux 3.2 kernel, Apache 2.2.22, 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 …
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu
To obtain checksums for omnibus packages, you may use the metadata API. For Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit, for example: $ curl 'https://www.opscode.com/chef/metadata?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86_64&v=11.4.4'
url https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/11.04/x86_64/chef_11.4.4-1.ubuntu.11.04_amd64.deb md5 6df945506d067b60fede84846e78529f sha256 c3c6f5302752e44cb9c88666646f91c825668f4fb9b5333233524c98cb29ad07
Chef 10.26.0 Beta Released
In addition …
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…that are already familiar with our Server Monitoring know it works like a champ under Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS, and Windows Server. Now we've collaborated with the smart folks over at Joyent to bring Server Monitoring (aka nrsysmond) to SmartOS.
The Scoop on SmartOS
SmartOS unites extraordinary technologies to create a high performance cloud infrastructure: OpenSolaris, ZFS, DTrace, Zones and KVM Linux. These technologies are combined into a single …
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…Macbook Pro has been running Lucid Lynx (an older version of Ubuntu). I've been biding my time and avoiding upgrading since, well, April 2010, I guess.
For most of the time it was because upgrading your only machine that you rely on for 100% of your income, to a potentially unstable, non long-term release version is generally a bad idea; but then, when I went to a new employer, I tried a new install of the new long term release... and slammed headlong into the weirdness that is the …
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Last week I blogged some Vagrant tips and pretty much jinxed the run I had in the past months.
Here's how:
I decided to upgrade to Vagrant 1.1, which broke bento: the current bento master is incompatible with Vagrant 1.1. But selecting the right rbenv env and installing the latest available Vagrant gem (inside the rbenv environment) fixed it.
My base box build, but for some reason, the guest addition setup broke and while it worked on Mac OSX, it broke the image completely on Ubuntu. Don't ask me why.
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The mysqld_safe script would fail to retrieve the Galera replication position on Ubuntu 10.04, because the different shell was used. Bug fixed # 1108431 ( Alex Yurchenko ).
Cascading foreign key constraint could lead to unresolved replication conflict and leave a slave hanging. Bug fixed # 1130888 ( Seppo Jaakola).
If MySQL replication threads were started before running wsrep recovery, this would lead to memory corruption and server crash. Bug fixed # …
…easybib-something-10.04.4_vbox-4.1.8_0.1.box and upload them to an S3 bucket. The first number is the Ubuntu release and the second is the version of the VirtualBox guest additions. Simple. The third version is our internal iteration — typically a base box isn't perfect from the beginning while e.g. the Ubuntu and VirtualBox part are settled, there might be other improvements. With an extra version you avoid conflicts and extra work like vagrant box delete etc. and ensure the latest …
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We're currently in the final stages of testing Ubuntu "Precise" ( 12.04 LTS) Brightboxes, we're now looking for volunteers for beta testing. If you're an existing customer and would like a Precise box to test, please open a support ticket or email support@brightbox.co.uk. Both 32-bit and 64-bit variants are available.
Beta test Brightboxes are free, but Precise is still in testing so there may still be bugs, so you shouldn't plan on running your live customer-facing …
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