- July 18, 2017
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- category: server
- tags: linux, lvm, system-administration
Working on upgrading my little ITX box to have some larger internal hard drives. Currently it has 2 internal drives(sdb 500G and sda 120G SSD), a USB thumb drive(sdd 16G with / and /boot), and two external USB drives (sde 2TB & sdc 1TB). Purchased a relatively cheap 4TB internal HD and want to swap out the 500GB drive for that.
- November 28, 2016
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- category: sales
- tags: selling, politics, corporate, leadership
Selling is truly a dark art
- category: ibm
- tags: ucd, deploy, administration
With the 6.2.1.1 release comes the first offering of Deployment Process and Log cleanup, this is a helper function that was previously only available ad-hoc or via custom scripting. This feature addresses the growth of the database and log storage areas as more and more deployment are run.
- May 13, 2016
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- category: ibm
- tags: urbancode-deploy, licensing
UrbanCode Deploy licensing is not an overly complex set of options, but it is useful to understand what the options are to see what works best for you and your organization.
- category: ibm
- tags: urbancode-deploy, administration
Understanding best practices for sourcing, retaining, and clean-up or artifacts is key to running a healthy UrbanCode Deploy server.
- April 25, 2016
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- category: ibm
- tags: urbancode, urbancode-deploy, infrastructure, server-administration, monitoring, operations
The primary focus of this post is to focus on the operational concerns of running a healthy UrbanCode Deploy infrastructure, the concepts are mostly generic but I will try and add my thoughts on some relevant points of interest as we step through an example setup and analysis for a server in a future post.
- April 23, 2016
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- category: ibm
- tags: urbancode, urbancode-deploy, urbancode-deploy-patterns
A standard practice that we all should be putting in place even before we go to production to ensure that we actually understand what needs to be backed up and how to put a process in place. There are two types here, the first being a full offline backup, offline here means the UCD server is not running, the second is an incremental backup. One key to how to design your backup plan is understanding your Service Level Agreement(SLA) and time to recover, what amount of data loss can you accept.
- February 28, 2016
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Why do I need UrbanCode Deploy if I am already doing continuous integration with xxx
- category: ibm
- tags: deploy, anti-patterns
Build tools are not deployment or release tools, if you want to build a push button deploy solution your impediments are almost always process oriented not solved by creating 10,000 line ant scripts...
- February 09, 2016
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- category: ibm
- tags: urbabcode, urbancode-deploy, infrastructure, asset-management, versions, cleanup
Part of keeping your UrbanCode Deploy infrastructure healthy is to ensure that you have appropriate cleanup policies in place. One challenge here is identifying what your corporations actual retention policies are, and establishing the ultimate source of truth for deployable artifact information. A key to understanding and persisting data is to first understand what makes up your meaningful data.
- September 16, 2015
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- category: ibm
- tags: 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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- category: ibm
- tags: 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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- category: ibm
- tags: ubuntu, rational, license
Example of installing the 32 bit Rational License Key Server on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04.
- July 19, 2015
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- category: urbancode
- tags: ibm, urbancode, urbancode-deploy, urbancode-build
Upgrading from UrbanCode 4.x to the most recent versions in the 6.1.x versions can be involved and will undoubtably affect your user community. Below are some steps for getting your test environment setup to actually perform the test upgrades and any migrations needed to help facilitate the process when you have to repeat it with production
- June 23, 2015
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- category: bluemix
- tags: 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.
- category: ibm
- tags: 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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- category: urbancode
- tags: 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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- category: productivity
- tags: 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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- category: ibm
- tags: 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.
- category: ibm
- tags: 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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- category: ibm
- tags: 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.