My 2cents …

Very well written online documentation – you should have a look if you are on the DevOps path (see my previous post).

Ops School is a comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer. Operations engineers are highly skilled people who manage the computer systems of businesses big and small.

Source: Ops School Curriculum — Ops School Curriculum 0.1 documentation

The Fn project is a container native serverless platform that you can run anywhere — any cloud or on-premise. It’s easy to use, supports every programming language, and is extensible and performant.

Quelle: Fn Project – The Container Native Serverless Framework

Quelle: A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command | Matthias Endler

Concourse is a CI system composed of simple tools and ideas. It can express entire pipelines, integrating with arbitrary resources, or it can be used to execute one-off tasks, either locally or in another CI system.

Quelle: Concourse: CI that scales with your project

This is the next big thing … for sure! I mean, the idea is old, but someone managed to give it a simple UI and API:

http://dweet.io/

I just stumbled upon setting the JAVA_HOME on a remote OS X Server. I tried following the output of whereis. But this was not leading me to the right track folders.

To make things short, just add this to your .profile/shell:

export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)

Bowery is a limitless development environment available at http://bowery.io/.It is free for DEVELOPERS and STARTUPS. All you need to do is configure one simple file per host. With a few lines bowery is setting up a host inkl. your app, the dependencies (like redis, mongodb,..) and up you go. Your app will be online in a short time inkl. ssh access to the VM.

PS: Signup is done via the CLI. I think this is a trend 😉

Working with several Vagrant boxes in parallel can be tricky. So today I wrote a small shell script to help me here. It will

• start the VM (if not already running),
• Login into the VM via SSH,
• suspend the VM after exiting the VM (if you want)

Shell script:
#/bin/bash
if [ -f ./Vagrantfile ]
then
if vagrant status | grep -q "running ("
then
echo Box is already running
else
echo Starting box ...
vagrant up
fi
echo Login in ...
vagrant ssh
read -n1 -p "Suspend box ? [y,N]" doit
case $doit in
y|Y) vagrant suspend ;;
n|N) echo OK ;;
*) echo OK ;;
esac
else
echo No Vagrantfile found!
fi

Fun Retrospectives.