Comments on: Automation is the Cloud

By: story of a sysadmin » Blogging every day this month

story of a sysadmin » Blogging every day this month — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:21:27 +0000

[...] a number of interesting things rolling around in my head, including: * A couple follow ups to my Automation is the Cloud post * Micro-benchmarking light weight webservers * Using Varnish in production * A number of other [...]

By: John Arundel

John Arundel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:54:53 +0000

Great article! I’m currently writing a tutorial series on Puppet for those who want to get started with Linux automation but aren’t sure how:

http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-tutorial

Your post is a great summary of reasons why us sysadmins need to learn this stuff.

By: Please allow us to automate your virtual cloud environment… | Standalone Sysadmin

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:43:31 +0000

[...] of a Sysadmin wrote a great article about “the cloud”. It’s called “Automation is the cloud“, and it starts with a very laudable, though difficult goal. I think it is important that as [...]

By: Kimmo Korhonen

Kimmo Korhonen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:25:25 +0000

Hi,

Nice write up. When talking about development automation there is also Continouos integration concept and tools.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration)

By: Brandon Burton

Brandon Burton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:28:24 +0000

Also, my friend and fellow LOPSA.org member, Luke Crawford, posted a great response over at http://wiki.xen.prgmr.com/xenophobia/2009/10/automation-is-the-cloud.html

By: Brandon Burton

Brandon Burton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:25:18 +0000

Thanks for the comment. You guys make excellent tools, a number of our customers, including the guys behind the Dojo Toolkit use them, to great success.

Cheers.

By: Pete de Zwart

Pete de Zwart — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:43:22 +0000

Mate, we are doing something similar with continuous integration over at Atlassian; where we have coupled virtualisation with automated deployments for the product teams so that their software can be tested on all the combinations of supported software and operating systems.

I like the writeup as it gives people a good overview of what to expect and what tools are available to get the job done.

I have to concur with the lack of configuration management for Win32 environments. This is compounded by most software not having a well documented method of performing silent/unattended installations.

Good stuff.

By: Brandon Burton

Brandon Burton — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:12:16 +0000

Over on the lopsa-discuss mailing list, a fellow sysadmin pointed out a solution for deploying Solaris, http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/jet/

By: Daniel Kushner

Daniel Kushner — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:19:39 +0000

You should check out Nolio’s Automation solution for the application and “everything else”.