- September 16, 2015
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- ibm
- urbancode, deploy, upgrade
Error while upgrading between 6.1.1.x versions noting that the server is running even when it is not we see the error about a previously installed version of IBM UrbanCode Deploy is running. Here is a quick way to work around this.
- August 10, 2015
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- ibm
- urbancode, deploy, patterns
IBM UrbanCode Deploy just dropped a shiny new release version 6.1.2. There are the normal inclusion of changes and performance improvements goodness, but this release also includes the complete UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns product as part of Deploy
- July 30, 2015
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- ibm
- ubuntu, rational, license
Example of installing the 32 bit Rational License Key Server on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04.
- June 23, 2015
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- bluemix
- ibm, bluemix, cloudfoundry
With the addition of the Deploy to Bluemix button it is easier than ever to point someone at your public DevOps Services project and get them to a running example in minutes. The challenge is this that this requires some foresight to ensure that it works as expected in most scenarios and with minimal intervention from the 'new' user whom is likely unfamiliar with the application.
- ibm
- urbancode, linux
Getting UrbanCode products installed on your Linux machines is a pretty straight forward task, one thing that is easy to forget to is to make those services run automatically. This post takes you through the steps needed to make the services automatically start as your infrastructure is restarted.
- May 18, 2015
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- urbancode
- ibm, urbancode, urbancode-deploy, high-availability, clustering, disaster-recovery
Using IBM UrbanCode Deploy(UCD) to grow your organization's delivery capabilities is a great start, but we have a follow on problem to our own success. As the deployment process is managed through UCD we now have to account for and support production application requirements as they are now dependent on the UCD server's availability and ability to perform. The topic of this article is to discuss the primary means of designing and architecting a scalable deployment with fail-over disaster recovery capabilities.
- April 13, 2015
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- productivity
- typing, efficiency, keyboard, os-x
Been doing more and more work on the command line as my Mac becomes more and more of a pretty Linux terminal and I think it is time I start focusing on improving my effecientcy without the mouse. I have been passible with vim and added screen to my workflow a few years back which was a huge help. Now I have been looking more at tmux and improving my proficiency with vim to a *competent* level. I'm not giving up my Code Editors or Eclipse just yet but just want to save myself some time and effort in my day to day work.
- April 08, 2015
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- ibm
- urbancode, deploy, oracle
Just a quick one, working with a client and noticed that the database install documentation is very prescriptive for most of the databases, but strangly spartan for Oracle.
- ibm
- ubuntu, ibm, urbancode, deploy, openstack, patterns, deployment-automation
Getting your own private cloud is cool, connecting it to UrbanCode Deploy is pretty cool too, but adding a way to perform full stack deployments of complete environments is awesome. This article is a helper to get up and running, from here the sky is the limit to start talking about how you push your unit of deployment up from a code changes and configurations changes to talking complete environment deployments or updates to help improve quality of deployments.
- March 31, 2015
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- ibm
- bluemix, python, ipython, nasa, astropy, ibm
Getting ready for NASA's hackday I started looking at how to get some useful stuff running in Bluemix to help out.
- March 24, 2015
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- openstack
- getting-started, openstack, virtualization
When you first get started you have one or two canned images to play around with but this is probably not much use beyond kicking the tires and confirming that you have your configuration working properly. Inevidably you will need to add some pre-existing images or create your own, it is pretty easy to get started based on the current offerings from different OS vendors today to start with your favorite base OS and work from there.
- February 21, 2015
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- ibm
- ibm, bluemix
Have seen questions about hosting static content a number of times on the forums and it is pretty straight forward once you know how to do it. This is useful for many frameworks that are javascript like Polymer based or based on generated content like Jekyll
- February 17, 2015
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- ibm
- ibm, eclipse, rational-team-concert, devops-services, bluemix
When getting started with DevOps services it is possible to integrate your DevOps project with the Rational Team Concert client to get the in context support of the Track and Plan component along with your source control hosting.
- February 05, 2015
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- cloud
- ibm, bluemix, cloudfoundry, troubleshooting
Some quick tips on debugging applications that fail to start under Cloud Foundry.
- February 02, 2015
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- ibm
- ibm, bluemix, development
Example of how to join an existing development team working on a simple application being developed with Bluemix and DevOps Services
- January 13, 2015
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- ibm
- ibm, bluemix, paas, cloud, microservices, softlayer
A quick introduction to IBM Bluemix, a first major step towards supporting microservices deployment through IaaS and PaaS on IBM SoftLayer.
- November 25, 2014
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- presentations
- devops, webinar, presentation, continuous-delivery
A four part webinar series corresponding to the four entry points to DevOps from the IBM point of view, which consist of Steer, Develop & Test, Deploy, and Operate.
- September 17, 2014
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- agile
- devops, agile, ibm, rtc, bluemix
Meetup session held in Melbourne to help introduce the agile community to vendors they may or may not know about and get a quick introduction to offerrings.
- July 25, 2014
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- presentations
- devops, devopsdays, brisbane, ignite, docker, lxc, linux
Ignite presentation delivered at DevOps Days Brisbane 2014, focus here is on the paradigm shift from traditional hosting to sw/hw isolation to virtualization to containers.
- July 04, 2014
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- linux
- ubuntu, upgrade, apt-get
Some simple tips for cleaning up your Ubuntu machines after updates and upgrades.